Police have a very different standard for use of force. Their duty isn't to kill people and break things. It is to keep the peace.
He also should have had decades of training in how to defuse a situation and reason with someone who is hostile. Guess not....
According to the original article, he helped develop the first SWAT team for the Tampa Police Department.
Stand your ground is a broken law, period. It should apply if the other person is armed and that is the threat. Retreat should always be part of the deal.
I agree. If you can remove yourself from the situation, you should always attempt to go that route first.
Repped! I agree with you 100% It's a broken law that i doubt Florida will pay much attention to fixing unless stuff like this happens more often...
1. Popcorn is not a lightweight weapon. It can crack teeth. I have lost fillings in recent years from it. 2. Texting during previews is no less of a serious offense than doing it during the movie itself. I haven't gone for a couple of years, but the movie is usually worse than the hilarious full-color episode of Tom and Jerry. The privilege of seeing The Three Stooges on the big screen is worth the 25 cent price of admission. 3. It was dark. Maybe the old man's vision was impaired. Maybe he thought Galexor, King of Andromeda, was disintegrating his atoms with gamma rays. These are movie-goers. They daydream about fantasies of glory, not NBA championships like those in reality-land. 4. If you blame the police killing innocent citizens on deficient police training, you should press politicians to add millions of dollars to police departments for better and higher-paid in-house trainers. This will serve as incentive for police to improve. 5. The onus is on the dead man to justify why he stood his ground and flung popcorn. The old police captain had infractions in high school hiding Skittles in his locker, so his reputation isn't exactly clean either. 6. The police captain was forced to retire on his 90% pension at age 50 because of ego microsurgery. Kobe was also a victim of this and it hurts. The California cities which go bankrupt from police pensions should create more positions for retired police captains to patrol the scary dark halls of theaters haunted by the terrors of flung corn.
Unless that person is alone on the streets of Portland with a mental handicap then they shoot to kill always.
Ex-Cop Who Shot Man in Movie Theater for Texting Was Also Texting http://gawker.com/ex-cop-who-shot-man-in-movie-theater-for-texting-was-al-1543144984
He didn't fucking shoot him for texting. He fucking shot him because the confrontation over texting became physical.
I think we should all bring more guns to the movies . . . I just ask you use the silencer while the movie is playing.
It doesn't read to me like he shot him for texting. It looks to me like the old boy shot and asshole that was in his face.
Extremely rude. That's what that sofa in the lobby is for. But then I had parents. Your upbringing was probably different.
Spoken like someone who has never been in a real fistfight. Not since elementary school anyway. About 1,480,000 results (0.26 seconds) https://www.google.com/search?q=man...la:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=sb
