Posted on 05/27/2011 6:58:25 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
An emotional jury Thursday decided pharmacist Jerome Jay Ersland was guilty of first-degree murder for fatally shooting a masked robber two years ago inside an Oklahoma City drugstore.
Jurors chose life in prison as punishment.
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Wasn’t that you that has the video telling how he was recklessly firing up the neighborhood outside of the store and freaking out the moms and their kids?
What was the color of the jury, the pharmisist, and the 2 criminals....that may have a bearing on the case, or else a lot of mushy females..
yes.
Of course you do. Most people do. How often do you have a gun pointed at your face when you’re getting coffee in the morning?
That wasn’t his point at all, watch the video and watch the demeanor and calmness of the druggist, and the indifference that he shows to the unconscious form as he seems uninterested in him, walking by him, turning his back on him, re approaching him in a relaxed way, until he comes over and pumps five bullets into his (unflinching, unconscious,) body.
Yep.
I'd go one further step. Its the "urban yout" culture. These kids (of all races) don't look down the road for a damn second. Hispanics have more than their share of the OKC gang-bang crime.
Off topic but indicative of the youth culture problem. A few years ago a local college professor was murdered, by a 13 year old mommy with an infant. Guess what, the 13 yo's mom was 26 and the grandma was early 40's! No damn wonder kids grow up stoopid, with parents like than!
This is BULLS-—. The guy most likely saved the lives of everyone in the store & their hanging him for it! Scumbags high on drugs can take multiple shoots to stop them. Ask a Cop not a tear choked jury. District Attorney should be put on trial for harboring SCUMBAGS
“This is BULLS-—. The guy most likely saved the lives of everyone in the store & their hanging him for it! Scumbags high on drugs can take multiple shoots to stop them. Ask a Cop not a tear choked jury. District Attorney should be put on trial for harboring SCUMBAGS”
Exactly,this asinine Jury is the very reason, we have these animals running loose.
You bring up a good point ... was the perp that collected five more ‘pills’ already dead or just severely wounded? If he was already departed, I don’t think blasting away at a corpse is illegal. Weird maybe, but illegal? Misdemeanor at best. Now if the perp could have eventually recovered from his head shot, IMO it is still self-defense because you can bet that a year or two down the road they would find the pharmacist in a ditch with several bullet holes in his back.
But what I am most concerned about is this: the dead kid was black. So is the majority of the prison population. A white guy in prison for killing a black guy won’t last two weeks.
Yes, and more to the point: The pharmacist would have no way of really knowing the condition of the perp that went down. All he knows is the guy is down. He likely had no idea what sort of injury had been sustained. There wasn’t yet enough time to look him over. The video doesn’t show the perp on the floor. When he goes down he drops out of frame. So did he move? Was he saying anything? Was he trying to get up? We don’t know.
My hunch is that the pharmacist came back in, saw the guy start to move, believed he was still a threat and fired more shots. In fact I’d say it’s prima facie evidence that he believed the perp was still a threat— otherwise he wouldn’t have needed the extra shots.
It’s important to remember that the pharmacist didn’t start this fight. He simply finished it. That shouldn’t be a crime in anybody’s universe.
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