We should have a whole thread just for ohio
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Don’t know where to post. Scroll the comments if you want to see the video. It’s fucking horrible.
https://twitter.com/marclamonthill/status/1257755563339010049?s=20
You are correct
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Cops arrest armed men, Texas bar owner who violated order to close
Cops in western Texas said they arrested a bar owner and a group of armed men Monday after they violated the state’s order.
Ector County Sheriff Mike Griffis said during a news conference Tuesday that his officers were alerted that the owner of Big Daddy Zane’s in West Odessa, Texas, opened her bar even though Gov. Greg Abbott’s reopening plan explicitly mandated that bars remain closed. When officers arrived, they saw six men in body armor and armed rifles standing outside the establishment, according to Griffis.
“This was not a protest of their second amendment rights. It was a show of force to ensure this lady could violate the governor’s order,” Griffis told reporters.
marine core
Literally chased him down in a pickup truck with rifles. One jumped out of the truck and physically assaulted the guy who was jogging, the other stood in the bed of the truck. I only watched once and couldn’t tell which of the two was shooting, and have no desire to see it again, but I’d guess the one who ran out and assaulted him.
wait they didn’t shoot it out to the death to protect their rights? I’m shocked
Jesus fucking christ that jogger murder
From the Root
According to a police report, Gregory McMichael said he saw Arbery run by and recognized him from the break-ins. He and his 34-year-old son Travis McMichael then grabbed a shotgun and a pistol and got into their truck to go after Arbery, the report says.
Once they caught up to him, Gregory McMichael told investigators Arbery “violently” attacked Travis and the two fought “over the shotgun” before Travis shot twice and killed him.
Seems to be a missing scene here on how the son got out of the truck to be violently attacked.
The lawyer says he suspects no indictments have been made in the case because Gregory McMichael previously worked for the Brunswick district attorney’s office.
The Root, surprisingly mentions, the break ins in the area, but this seems absolutely right, even if the guy did do the robbery
According to neighbors there had been break-ins happening in the area, which seems to be the basis of the citizen’s arrest justification for this young man’s death. But does self-defense include pursuing a person who is jogging, then fighting him when he reacts like any human being would to strangers pointing a shotgun at him, and then killing him with said shotgun?
Oh this is what was driving me crazy
The case was sent to George E. Barnhill, the district attorney in Waycross, Ga., who eventually recused himself from the case after Mr. Arbery’s mother argued that he had a conflict because his son also works for the Brunswick district attorney.
But before he relinquished the case, Mr. Barnhill argued in a letter obtained by The Times that there was not sufficient probable cause to arrest Mr. Arbery’s pursuers. In the letter, Mr. Barnhill noted that the McMichaels were legally carrying their firearms under Georgia’s open carry law. He said the pursuers were within their rights to pursue what he called “a burglary suspect,” and cited a state law that states, “A private person may arrest an offender if the offense is committed in his presence or within his immediate knowledge.”
Mr. Barnhill also argued that if Mr. Arbery attacked Travis McMichael, Mr. McMichael was “allowed to use deadly force to protect himself” under Georgia law.
What do Mr. Arbery’s defenders say?
Mr. Barnhill wrote, in his letter, that Mr. Arbery had mental health issues, though he does not elaborate on this point, and that he had prior convictions. Court records show that Mr. Arbery was convicted of shoplifting and of violating probation in 2018. Five years earlier, according to The Brunswick News, he was indicted on charges that he took a handgun to a high school basketball game.
Those details, Mr. Barnhill argued, “help explain his apparent aggressive nature and his possible thought pattern to attack an armed man.”
Oh cool, just the district attorney, who’s supposed to be a hard ass towards criminals writing up the guy’s defense for him.
Wow they must have known about the handgun charges, very prescient. In all seriousness this is absolutely revolting.
REALLY wish I hadn’t watched the video.
Straight up murder.
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I had the same feeling.
Remember in school when you learned about JIm Crow and “then MLK came along and did the non-violence and we fixed the racism?”
Yeah.
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