Florida 'stand your ground' shooter Michael Drejka charged with manslaughter

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Again my observationa have more to do with some Catholics here. The accused will have his day in court.
 
And so were the victim’s girlfriend and kids…
 
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7_Sorrows said:
Why are you bringing race into it?
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Stand your ground laws, with the racial disparities in who is protected by such laws, is an inherently racial topic.
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However, she and her husband could have made different choices also that could have led to a peaceful outcome.
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Why is it that when a white person kills a black person it’s always the black person that should have made different choices? It’s like it’s inconceivable to some people that the white guy with a history of threatening people with guns did something wrong
 
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Well, if she would have pulled into the parking lot and not parked in a handicapped space we probably would not be having this conversation.

If she would have ignored the man who later shot her husband when he began preaching to her about parking in handicapped spaces we would not be having this conversation.
 
We wouldn’t be having this conversation if a dangerous man with a history of violent threats and actions who liked to brandish his gun every chance he got hadn’t killed somebody over a parking spot.
 
I remember an incident where someone parked in a handicap space. Someone else asked them to move. They moved. No one died.
 
I don’t have a handicap decal on my car. I do have a relative that suffered a stroke. A lingering effect of the stroke is loss of coordination on one side of her body. Sometimes I assist her by driving her to places she wants to go, and this at times involves occupying a handicap space so that she can get out and go into a building or occupying it again when I know she is coming back out. To someone on the street I’m a fully capable person with no mobility problems sitting in that space. That assessment of me is true, but I’m not the full picture.

Thankfully no one ever gives me problems about it. The city happens to be a big retirement city and so this isn’t uncommon. People giving helping hands is common and also somewhat expected by those that need assistance (there was a mute disabled man that drove up in a gold cart and instructed me non-verbally to unload his wheel chair and put him in it once).
 
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Well, if she would have pulled into the parking lot and not parked in a handicapped space we probably would not be having this conversation.

If she would have ignored the man who later shot her husband when he began preaching to her about parking in handicapped spaces we would not be having this conversation.
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If Emmett Till had just not whistled at a white woman a whole lot of bad could have been avoided. So let’s blame Emmett Till too.
 
He didn’t kill somebody over a parking spot. Someone was killed because they approached him and shoved him to the ground in an aggressive and violent manner and he evidently was afraid for his life.
Since there is no audio we don’t know if anything was said between the two men or what he was saying to the woman before her husband came out. Some convenient stores do have audio recordings outside their stores. I don’t know if this one did or not.
We will have to wait for the trial to get all the facts.
 
Sure, and if Reginald Denny hadn’t been driving his work truck that day nothing would have happened to him.
 
7_Sorrows said:
Well, if she would have pulled into the parking lot and not parked in a handicapped space we probably would not be having this conversation.

If she would have ignored the man who later shot her husband when he began preaching to her about parking in handicapped spaces we would not be having this conversation.
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It’s reasonable to not expect getting shot over that.
 
I guess he should have thought about that befre he angrily came at the man and pushed him down to the ground forcefully.
 
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He didn’t kill somebody over a parking spot. Someone was killed because they approached him and shoved him to the ground in an aggressive and violent manner and he evidently was afraid for his life.
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Michael Drejka, a sad, dangerous little man who used his gun as an excuse to confront people over minor issues, shot and killed Markeis McGlockton after McGlockton defended his family from an obviously unhinged and violent man.

Can you imagine what would happen if a black man was waving his gun at people (no need to imagine; a black man in this country can take twenty police bullets for holding a cellphone)?
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Sure, and if Reginald Denny hadn’t been driving his work truck that day nothing would have happened to him.
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Exactly, you understand perfectly. It wasn’t Reginald Denny’s fault he was attacked, it wasn’t Emmett Till’s fault he was murdered, and it wasn’t Markeis McGlockton’s or his family’s fault that he was murdered.
 
Drejka wasn’t waving his gun before he was pushed and was not presenting a threat to the woman. If he had been standing by her window or pounding on the car, then I would say he was harrassing her.
 
7_Sorrows said:
He didn’t kill somebody over a parking spot. Someone was killed because they approached him and shoved him to the ground in an aggressive and violent manner and he evidently was afraid for his life.
Since there is no audio we don’t know if anything was said between the two men or what he was saying to the woman before her husband came out. Some convenient stores do have audio recordings outside their stores. I don’t know if this one did or not.
We will have to wait for the trial to get all the facts.
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Whatever the beginning of the altercation, the fatal shot didn’t come until the altercation was essentially over.
 
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