Posted on 05/09/2020 4:59:46 PM PDT by bort
This video was posted on the twitter account of Ahmaud Arbery's attorney, Lee Merritt. It shows Arbery stopping in front of the home. He then looks around and walks into the home, which is under construction. He walks out of the home and into the garage. He is in the house for at least 60 to 90 seconds. He then BOLTS out the front entrance of the house like Jesse Owens.
They were stopped in the road with no one in the cab of the truck.
Is he running from the person taking the video I guess?
He ran up to the truck, around it and physically attacked the man with the shotgun and tried to disarm him.
A point conveniently left out by the msm.
At most he would have been looking at a tresspassing charge that probably would have been dismissed with a warning.
As always, there is more to the story.
“Just a jogger, bro!”
You are lucky these days if they just take the tools.
They will strip out the wiring on new home and business construction.
In Houston there is a million dollar theft ring that has gotten a slap on the wrist for stealing thousands of appliances from new homes being built.
Houston DA Giving Massive Organized Crime Ring A Pass, Won’t Charge Feb 22, 2018
https://defensemaven.io/bluelivesmatter/news/houston-da-giving-massive-organized-crime-ring-a-pass-won-t-charge-L08RLUd_8U6KWzgAUouHgA
Houston, TX – Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg tried to blame a retired Houston police officer for her decision to not prosecute members of an organized crime ring, and got blasted for it on Monday.
Ogg’s allegations were made after crime victims and police advocates questioned the lenient prosecutions carried out by her office, KTRK reported.
She argued that it wasn’t fair to ridicule her for individual cases, when thousands were prosecuted during the year, KTRK reported.
“We are clearing our table of lesser offenses so that we can bring higher quality prosecutions to these crimes against people and property,” Ogg said. “While you can pick a case out here and there where there’s a different result, there’s generally a reason for it that’s different from the general rule.”
...The ring included two burglars, who broke into newly constructed homes to steal appliances, and a “fence,” who bought the burglars’ stolen appliances for pennies on the dollar to re-sell later, Stephens explained in a Facebook post on Monday.
“For perspective, we are talking about one of the most prolific organized crime rings targeting home builders and new home appliances probably in Harris County history, in my opinion,” he said. “I’m talking about hundreds if not thousands of burglaries and thefts that stretched all across Harris County and beyond.”...
...The fence was initially charged with a single count of felony theft, and no charges were ever filed against the two burglars, Stephens said.
He explained that, months later, “prosecutors suddenly determined the Fence was somehow a ‘legitimate businessman’ who didn’t know or understand that buying $1500 refrigerators for $200 … in the middle of the night … at a sketchy storage facility … from men he knew to be burglars … meant he could possibly be buying stolen appliances.
...“I asked what on earth caused them to believe he was a ‘legitimate businessman,’” he wrote. “Are you ready for this? They believed him to be a ‘legitimate businessman’ because … he produced … a business card with his name on it.”
Houston DA Repeatedly Lets Organized Crime Ringleader Go Free
Feb 2, 2019
https://defensemaven.io/bluelivesmatter/news/houston-da-repeatedly-lets-organized-crime-ringleader-go-free-rf_7iclx1Uiebd9JblwTcw
...Although investigators found Shields in possession of $45,000 worth of stolen ovens, refrigerators, and other home appliances, Stephens complained to Blue Lives Matter that Ogg hadn’t asked for a high enough bond.
KTRK reported that the district attorney’s office asked the judge for a $150,000 bond.
But then Magistrate Judge Colin Amann lowered it even further to $45,000, Stephens said.
“Despite his status as a career habitual offender… It took only $4,500 for this man, who stole over $1 million in property, time and time again, to walk out of jail,” he explained. “He is free again and no doubt moving the stolen appliances they have yet to recover.”...
“He was trying to gain control of someone’s weapon... seems like straightforward self defense...”
I think that is where the crux of the matter is. Is it self defense to go out of your way to block a public roadway (for let’s just assume a person 100% guilty of at a minimum trespassing) with no visible credentials in unknown, unmarked, and unofficial dress, vehicles, or anything else - deploy options for deadly force and get surprised when it goes sideways and someone dies?
right wrong or indifferent - that is going to be the heart of the issue. Let the chips fall where they may, hopefully justice will be served, but nobody deserves to be tried in the media, or by vigilantes...
>>Obviously, even the POLICE can’t shoot a burglar running from the scene.
Correct, however if an officer is detaining a suspect and said suspect lunges at the officer and tries to grab the gun (from his holster), what then?
You can’t holster a shotgun.
I’ve asked on other threads is this “brandishing a weapon”.
Eric Holder didn’t think so when the paramilitary Black Panthers terrorist group stood outside a polling center on election day and intimidated voters.
Bkmk
Maybe they did or were about to call the police when the decedent literally ran about 60+ feet right towards the man with the shotgun and physically attacked him and attempted to physically disarm him.
It was certainly not a burglary that killed him, but his own actions when he attacked the neighbor.
“And if someone were trying to ‘citizen arrest’ me with guns, I’d fight for my life, too.”
No kidding.
What would you have done if one of them had started to run away?
My dogs would have got them and I had them pinned up so that they were sitting in freezing cold water and had no change to escape.
There was no right reason to take someone’s life, especially in this situation.
“The details are murkier so far with the Waycross case but Arbery merely tried to grab the shotgun. We need more information to make sense of this case.”
Yes. Not even close to Zimmerman case where he was subject to a brutal homophobic attack by Martin.
‘Your house?’ NO!!! I tried after 2 antagonists were on my yard and threatening me. I figured there were going to break my door down. I went outside with a rifle to scare them away, but the cops arrested my for agg assault with a deadly weapon and I had to get deferred adjudication for 10 years. So do NOT take your gun outside. This was TX too btw.
You think truth matters now?
LOL!
WHO was pinned in freezing water - your dogs, or the perps?
Calling 911 is a joke.
If the police bother to show up at all it's well after the fact.
That certainly could mitigate in favor of the defendants, if not clear them. But a jury is not compelled to consider the evidence in reaching their verdict. Think OJ.
How many folks go out for a jog in pants and boots?
"Yeah, boieeee!"
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