Yeah, I’m about done here. You play just as fast and loose with what I say. You judged someone to be a murderer without even having the basic facts of the case straight. Not surprising, then, that you’d twist their meanings so much, too, as well as my words. Leticia Jimenez, the hotel worker who went up there, thought the men were selling an actual rifle.
It’s almost like you might not even understand what murder is. I had a high school teacher explain it to our class. Homicide is any killing of a person by another, while for someone to be guilty of murder, they have to the intent to kill that other person out of animosity. It’s also like you don’t get that sometimes people make mistakes that get them killed. It doesn’t mean they “deserved to die.” People sometimes make tragic mistakes. It doesn’t mean a crime is committed on anyone’s part, much less a murder.
Ah. You’re saying homicide is a perfectly acceptable response if a hotel worker thinks you’re doing something perfectly legal and protected by the Constitution if it’s just a little bit scary. Got it.
You still sidestep the fact that an unarmed female hotel worker felt the threat to be so low that she did not fear for her life when knocking on his door, yet several police officers with AR-15 rifles were trembling with fear over an unarmed man on his knees, sobbing and begging for his life.
This murder thing... what do you suppose having the words “you’re fucked” etched onto your AR-15 means? How does a gun fuck someone? Unless it falls off a shelf and hits you in the head, I’d say it would be by using it to shoot someone, no? One might say that cop Brailsford had intent to kill someone for some reason some day.
Joining a police force would be one way to get away with murder. All you have to do is say you feared for your life. You may simply believe that Brailsford was not as brave as Leticia Jimenez and feared for his life, but I’m a cynic. I think if he hadn’t killed Shaver that night, some other night he’d find someone to “fuck” with his rifle.