Michigan legislative action thread
Posted on 12/19/2013 12:18:55 PM PST by SatinDoll
(Reuters) - A white suburban Detroit homeowner [Theodore Wafer, 54] should stand trial on charges of second-degree murder in the shooting death of a young black woman [Renisha McBride, 19] who knocked on his door in the middle of the night in November, a Michigan judge said...
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If this man is convicted of 2nd Degree Murder, expect more white flight from the area around Detroit.
Porch Shooting?
I swear, journalists are getinng dumber all the time.
It’s likely the woman wasn’t selling Girl Scout cookies.
Where’s the rest of the story? What little there is makes it sound like she rang his doorbell, so he shot her...end of story. I’ll bet anything that the context that NBC so conveniently left out would paint a somewhat different picture.
They immediately made sure we knew the races involved.
When it’s the other way around, they deliberately and intentionally suppress the races.
So, when they don’t mention the races, we know what happened.
I feel sorry for Renisha McBride’s family, but Wafer had no idea what he whether this was an ambush, or not.
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Didn’t I read that he admitted to accidentally pulling the trigger?
He may or may not face jail time. But he did step in it. Big time.
I know this is a serious story, but the first thing I thought of was the bad grammar, too-why would anyone be charged for shooting a porch?
why would he shoot a Porsche—— daggumit!
Never mind
I was trying to figure out why someone would shoot a porch.
Did he shoot her through the door?
Bad idea.
If I were his attorney I would try to talk him out of going to trial.
You sound a little insane.
You can’t gun down someone knocking on your door and expect to just brush it off.
Can he the defendant change this decision once the judge has spoken? Hope so. I would have shot her too, an unknown person, alone, maybe, loudly banging on doors at X’’oClock in the dark morning? You don’t do things like that and not expect consequences. Most men know about the old trick of send an attractive young lady to a man’s door to ask for directions, let’s say. As soon as the door is cracked for her, two men rush into the house, hit the homeowner with a gun butt, then take over the environment. He needs to switch laywers if his attorney has such a small skill set as to let this happen to his client. If his lawyer is court appointed, this may be working against him also. From the politically correct perspective, the pro bono lawyer does not lose much by losing this case.
No kidding...wait until you see the gangbangers on the jury! I would have advised him to get out of dodge!
She had apparently hit some cars on the street a couple hours prior. Her BAC was still quite high when this occurred.
We don’t know what was happening and the guy says he had his gun but did not intend to shoot her. perhaps she startled him
Well then you would probably also be tried for 2nd degree murder. It certainly can't be considered 'justified self-defense'. You do not have a right to shoot irritating people, even when they are knocking on your door.
There were many alternatives available to him. He could have ignored her altogether, and stayed behind the locked door. He could have done that and called 911. He could have told her to go away and stayed behind the locked door.
I sound insane!?
He opens the door and two men rush in, shoot him and his wife dead then ransack the house. Meanwhile the young woman is standing lookout in front.
Sound crazy? Don’t laugh too hard. It is an old trick using a young woman-in-distress as bait, one of the oldest tricks thieves possess.
The proper response to a knock on the door in the middle of the night is to call 911 and have them on the line as you talk to the “knocker” through a window.
Be careful who you call crazy, Ansel.
As a side note, there were witnesses to this girl's travel thru the neighborhoods which makes me wonder why none of them called the cops on her......
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