What convicted him was the security video. It showed that there was a period of a few seconds where the defendant was on the ground, the victim was not advancing on him, the defendant pulled his pistol, the victim backed away, and he shot him. Clearly a bad shoot and the manslaughter conviction was justified.
The guy’s actions preceding the event tell me that he wasn’t the type who should have been carrying. Way too temperamental and impulsive. The victim, however, tempted fate by physically confronting the guy when clearly he was only running his yap. At least that’s the way I perceive it. Nobody won.
I guess this could be classified as parking lot rage. A cousin of road rage.
Once the perp laid hands on him he surrendered his right to life; the shooter spared other people victimization at the hands of the perp (aggressor).
Putting the race of the person who was shot merely reinforces in peoples’ minds that they can’t safely be around others who don’t look like them; there are citizens, and there are “preferred citizens”...
When I watched the video, it seemed the standing man backed away a step but just before the shot, he began to move forward again.
If the shooter had shot immediately after he pulled the gun, I think he would not have been charged as his attacker was standing right over him.
He who hesitates is lost.
I remember this. It sparked a bunch of ignorant comments about “stand your ground,” including by the sheriff, but Florida’s “stand your ground” law had nothing to do with this. He was not facing a deadly threat, and had in fact initiated the confrontation that led to the shooting. Whether he had a duty to retreat never entered into it.
This was the case where the shooter was haranguing a woman and her child for waiting in a handicap parking space.
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IIRC, he was, as a civilian, policing the handicap spots at this convenience store in a rundown section of town. Why?
"A white man (evil white man with gun) who cited Florida’s “stand your ground” self-defense law after fatally shooting a Black man (victim, loving father, devoted husband, kind of guy you see cutting his grass in a Home Depot commercial and all-around good guy, capitalized just to make sure you notice) during a dispute over a parking space..."
I agree with the decision. Shooter error. Lock him up. Sad and unfortunate for both parties but especially for the kid.
What convicted him was the security video. It showed that there was a period of a few seconds where the defendant was on the ground, the victim was not advancing on him, the defendant pulled his pistol, the victim backed away, and he shot him. Clearly a bad shoot and the manslaughter conviction was justified.
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Agreed. You’ve got to keep your cool when packing heat. His emotions (anger) overrode good judgment.
But I don't let it be my problem. I let law enforcement or hired security deal with those infractions. So this guy's life is basically ruined all because he took it upon himself to try and enforce a handicapped space. Sad.
It was a pretty hard blow the shooter took to the concrete and maybe he was rattled enough not to know the attacker was moving backward instead of forward...I would not have convicted the shooter...
“It showed that there was a period of a few seconds where the defendant was on the ground, the victim was not advancing on him, the defendant pulled his pistol, the victim backed away,...”
Wrong. Look at the video again, it clearly shows to perp shoving the gun owner to the ground and advancing until the pulls out his gun.
The perp had no intention of stopping the attack until the gun was drawn.
Two people being dumb asses, one of them now dead and the other, appropriately in my view, now going to jail.
The store owner had called the cops on Drejka for harassing customers in a previous situation. A Parking Lot Rambo Wanna Be who had nothing better to do that hang out at the corner Quikie Mart looking to start some shit.
What irks me more than people parking in handicapped spaces are the lazy mofos that leave the shopping carts that goon up 3-4 parking spots.. 😡Those people need to be shot. /s Please don’t red flag me!
FWIW, in Virginia Beach, if you call the cops about Handicapped parking, the cops don’t respond, it’s a Community Service Officer
No, he claimed self defense.
This guy is a MURDERER and a COWARD, he should be swinging by his neck from a tree.
This was no stand your ground it was nothing but murdering coward.
I broke a bone in my foot and was in a special boot for 6 weeks. As I was leaving the doctor the girl handed me a form to get a handicap parking permit. What the heck...
So this big stupid boot was a pain to walk with, and it was during the winter, so I used it once at a Walmart.
I came out of the store and hobbled to my car where a crazy looking woman who outweighed me by 50 pounds (I’m 6” and 280) stood leaning against my Jeep with her arms crossed.
“I just wanted to see if you was really a cripple.” says this paragon of the American Educational System.
I stopped. Pointed at the boot.
She squinted at me, shrugged, and lumbered off to lean against another car parked in a handicapped spot.
Never used the parking pass again.