[Capler]

What are your thoughts? Scroll down in article to see unedited video.

https://rivercitypost.org/video-robber-demanding-cash-is-shot-8-times-and-then-executed-by-a-customer/

[Capler]

I feel it was excessive. Especially when he gets up walks to the door and continues shooting.

[Jay_Thomas]

the customer had no idea the shooter's gun was fake. Attempted robbery is excessive to me. Did he have to kill the robber? Probably not.  He is going to get charged with something.

[soflorattler]

As I've said in the past, once you've made the decision to commit a crime, only you are responsible for whatever happens once you commit to that decision.  Your demise, whatever it may be, is a result of that decision.
Rarely do wrong decisions go right.

[Optimusprime]

I have no problem with the shooting of the robber.  There was no way of telling if the weapon was fake.  Once that weapon was pointed and waved, the customer with the weapon was justified to deploy his own.   

I do have a problem with the excessive use of force from the customer's weapon - specially if he walked up to him and shot him once he is down. 

[cee dog]

I don't feel sorry for him. The problem is once the threat is over you're not supposed to keep shooting. The only thing that will save him from jail time is it was a black male he killed.

[Capler]

Did y'all even watch the unedited clip? The edited clip JT posted makes the shooter look like a hero. The unedited version is nowhere on youtube. That guy shot the dude again and again when he was down, and he picked up his fake gun and shot him once more. Clearly he had malice/hatred in his heart.  The media is making this guy into a hero and white folk are jumping on the bandwagon. Yes the guy should have been taken down because he had a gun, but the way that guy did it was unjustified.

[A&T AGGIE 96]

Any shots after the threat is over is excessive…problem is determining when you’re in that moment when the threat is over. That said, this seems excessive. If I shot you and you down, I’m not walking over to you.


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[81alphaeagle]

Any shots after the threat is over is excessive…problem is determining when you’re in that moment when the threat is over. That said, this seems excessive. If I shot you and you down, I’m not walking over to you.


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He should be charged.

[Jay_Thomas]

He should be charged.

He most likely will be.  Up to the prosecutor.

[Capler]

What really bothers me is the way the media manipulated the video to create a hero. If they would  have made more of the video available, many would have a different opinion of the situation. Clearly that guy had issues with the way he perceived black folk. He turned the situation into a personal vendetta. The media conveniently ignore that and went with the age old narrative of a black man walking in to rob and maim, while a law abiding white hero steps up and saves the planet. 

[cee dog]

Choices have consequences. He decided his was about that life and found out he wasn't. Now that pilgrim use obsessive force but he couldn't have done that had the perp decided not to rob

What really bothers me is the way the media manipulated the video to create a hero. If they would  have made more of the video available, many would have a different opinion of the situation. Clearly that guy had issues with the way he perceived black folk. He turned the situation into a personal vendetta. The media conveniently ignore that and went with the age old narrative of a black man walking in to rob and maim, while a law abiding white hero steps up and saves the planet.

[Capler]

dog, I have little sympathy for the young man. Yeah I get the whole victim of society argument, but society did not put the gun in his hand and force him into that restaurant to rob innocent people. He made a bad choice and paid the ultimate price. Pick him up off the floor and hand him to his family so they can have a nice funeral. End of him. (Personally I feel sorry for the poor fool, and for the thousands of black males just like him. How in the hell did we come to this? )

 Now my attention is on the  shooter.

That guy was picking up a few dollars off the tables/floor and was headed for the door.  He should have been allowed to walk out. I know the gun was fake, but that is inconsequential. I would be a basket case if I killed some poor fool  banishing a fake gun.  I'm not even going to get into what the law says about the actions of the shooter. But in this hyper polarized racial climate we live in, there is going to be a lot of pressure to not bring charges against this man. 

So dog, the young man got what was coming to him, but the shooter should also face consequences for his actions.