A robbery at a Texas taco shop turned into a shooting after a man with what turned out to be a plastic gun began robbing customers, only to be shot by a customer with a real gun. The suspect died. The case is now at the center of gun rights and self-defense debates across the country. Kenneth Williams, a lawyer and professor at South Texas College of Law, speaks about factors the grand jury may consider.
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Black panther thugs see the shooter as a victim lol
Live a Thug's life…die a Thug's death. Stop siding with the career criminal. The black got what he deserved. Sooner or later, you will realize this is a black problem that only the black community can solve.
INCORRECT!!! If you do not step in and help someone when their life is threatened (he pointed a gun at someone else and intended to kill if they did not hand over money) then you are an accomplice to the crime if you do nothing about it. Life was still in danger because if you do not hand over cash, lets say you don't have any, and the robber doesn't believe you, then he will commit bodily harm or even kill you and search your corpse. You have a right to end the threat before it ends you. Plus that money you have could be needed for food or medicine and if you lose it you could die or suffer later on. Pulling a weapon out with intent to harm forfeits your rights, im so sorry to tell you, but not sorry.
Play stupid games win stupid prizes! Moral of this story DON'T TRY TO TAKE PPL SHIT!
The mother needs to go to jail for wasting social resources and raising a criminal. Put all her relatives in jail for a year.
Get a 10MM and open up a cow.
Sue the gun maker, who made the customer feel inadequate lethality of the handgun after eight shots.
Did his family care about the family of the young man he and his friends murdered several years prior? Didn’t think so.
Absolute Hero
Bad Guy was taken down
Pretty Simple.
There is nothing in the criminal law procedure, that says one can be prosectuted if he does not stop shooting at any given time during the event actively taking place. It only says once immediate action is necessary to prevent bodily harm and or death. This for the" engage " not disengage. Immediately necessary to engage the threat. Once that is met there is nothing in the law that say's stop when the threat is over, stop at shot #3, stop and make sure the threat is neutralized before continuing shooting and it doesn't even say you cannot reload a fresh mag and keep shooting.
It doesn't say thou shalt not taketh 9th shoteth. Everything after the " immediately necessary " and thats to start the enagagement, is judged not by law, but by opinion from those whom have a say in the law. This is the problem here that people don't understand thus causing the controversy of what happened.
After removing the robber’s gun , the last shot was not justified.
In texas the law states . that you can take out someone who is a danger. and how many bullets you use doesn't matter. also the last head shot. the perp could have said i'll blow you up with a hand grenade. so that last shot was okay too
What a crock! There is no way the customers knew this guy was leaving the store, and neither does the FAKE NEWS! He could have been getting ready to assault another customer in the corner of the direction he was walking, or he could have been getting ready to turn around and shoot everyone. Stop defending and coddling these criminals!! He got what he deserved under the law!
Not even a question, the citizen is a hero!
It was self-defense quit making such a big deal out of this news you're going to get that guy arrested for self-defense
I saw the full unedited footage on Instagram. I can see why the police and the DA sent the case to the grand jury. The shooter may be in legal trouble because of the last five bullets.
Everyone is a vigilante if the police are not an option. Did he have an officer in his pocket? No. He did, however, have a firearm. This is how you stop crime.
I think he was both. And I think he went for over kill. But I wouldn’t file charges against him.
Oh Mama, your son had every intention on shooting and killing for chump change. The trauma the customers experience is the abuse. Your son abused himself. Period. I’m sorry for her loss but it’s no one fault but his own. What if he left the restaurant and killed somebody on his way out? It was a righteous decision. I support the hero who stopped the criminal.
I have to unfollow because TOO MANY (chopped UP) videos are posted. My feed is almost solely News Nation. Unfortunate because I do enjoy the coverage.
Don't call the shooter 'Good Samaritan', I felt he has made up his mind to kill the robber the moment he pulled up his gun on the blind side and started shooting him.
From the video, i could only see a clear intent to rob, it doesn't seem like a hostage situation, I don't know whether this matters, however, it is clear that the shooter went psychotic when he got an opportunity to shoot!!, a background check and investigation on the shooter could be helpful, I believe.
Hero.
It’s called overkill, there was a case where two kids broke into this guy's house, and he killed them. But when it went to court, he got charged with overkill.
I honestly feel terrible for that mother. Terrible situation all the way around.
You cant expect an average citizen to know that what he did was wrong
That fool took a two notable timely gaps in between shots he walked up to him after he was down after shooting him and shot him in the back of the head
executioner
Good riddance…
The threat is there and is only over when the criminal is dead or has left the premises. He was fair game as soon as he pulled the weapon and pointed it at innocent customers.
Looks bad , shooting a man who is no longer a threat
He represents all those that are fed up with crime. Enough is enough.
Sounds like this news anchor need to review self defense law at his current state.
Exactly, 'he was dead already' requires a medical examiner to render an 'opinion'. The dead person was in the process of presenting lethal potential to multiple people during an illegal act. One of the victims at reasonable risk of bodily injury or death ended the threat. Parsing this out to attempt to minimize the culpability of the criminal and blame a victim is wrong.
Condolences to the criminals family and especially his mom.
What is the criminal record of the thief? He is dead, so any right to incident until proven guilty is gone, and restriction on considering his past criminal record is moot. Spend an equal amount of time discussing the robbers past crimes.
https://youtu.be/QQMx3Wu34EM (Lawful Self Defense or Excessive Force? You Decide.); https://youtu.be/YAx9srqTFIs (Victim Picks The Perfect Time To Turn the Tables in Houston).
In my opinion, this hero is fcked. He's not a suspect YET. LOL. I can see anti-gun liberals and prosecutors saying he no longer acted in self-defense or fear of life like a crooked cop. The robber was dead or about to die. His gun was arm's length away when he got shot down after 4 initial shots. He shot him 1 more time after the "hero" picked up the robber's gun. That's why what he did was not justified. It was lawful until he unloaded a couple more when the man was clearly motionless.
The jury is inching to throw pronouns at him lol. I mean, I applaud the man for stopping the robber, but or however. There is always that but or a, however, lol. He better has a good lawyer to explain why he went from appropriate lawful action to inappropriate action (excessive overkill), decided to continue shooting a non-imminent threat as he approached to take the robber's gun and money that the robber stole, and then shot one more round? Oh yeah, they are coming for that @ss lol.
He could have had another gun 🤷🏻♂️
https://youtu.be/QQMx3Wu34EM (Lawful Self Defense or Excessive Force? You Decide.); https://youtu.be/YAx9srqTFIs (Victim Picks The Perfect Time To Turn the Tables in Houston).
We have people go to jail for self defense, like these videos here so miss me with that shyt: If you defend yourself, you are going to jail. Damn if you do defend yourself & Damn if you don't 😅 😒 https://youtu.be/B7ez5b7ugAs (New video: Why is NYC clerk still charged with murder? I Banfield); https://youtu.be/7ay2PibCPDc (Mother of 2 FATALLY Shoots Intruder AND WENT TO JAIL?!); https://youtu.be/NNZzN1L45_g (When is it Legal to Kill?); https://youtu.be/SUwALbQ9qvs ($500,000 Bill For A Self-Defense Shooting?!).