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Accused Movie Theater Shooter Said He Was 'In Fear of Being Attacked'
Yahoo News/Good Morning America ^ | STEVE OSUNSAMI, SENI TIENABESO and COLLEEN CURRY (GMA)

Posted on 01/15/2014 5:09:04 AM PST by Anton.Rutter

Edited on 01/15/2014 6:21:09 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

The elderly man accused of shooting a movie theater patron in Florida after an argument over text messaging told police that he fired because he "was in fear of being attacked."

Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco said at a news conference today that the victim, Chad Oulson, 43, was texting his young daughter's babysitter when an argument erupted with Reeves over texting during previews before the movie "Lone Survivor."


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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: assaultpopcorn; banglist; curtisreeves; dontyouknowwhoiam; donutwatch; elderly; floriduh; murder; ohyeahmakeme; respectmyauthority
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To: txrefugee

Copyright rules apply down thread, as well. Thanks.


101 posted on 01/15/2014 6:22:50 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator
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To: sport
As far as him being annoyed by the texting goes, all he had to do was move to another seat, but no, he wanted to demonstrate his authority like back when he was a policeman. If the textor had violated any law[s] previously, there was an off duty Deputy in the audience with the authority to arrest him. He took no action.

He did take action. He went to the theater management/staff and complained. When he returned, the dead a-hole badgered him for "tattling". Things escalated from there.

It's like when you are stuck in a traffic jam and some a-hole decides to jump traffic by speeding on the shoulder and cutting in front of a car, then gets all hissy because you hit your horn at him.

They know when they are being jerks but they can and do get violent when they are called out about it.

102 posted on 01/15/2014 6:23:16 AM PST by a fool in paradise ("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
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To: a fool in paradise
Yep, provides cover for a suckerpunch.

Is that YOUR meme.

104 posted on 01/15/2014 6:24:18 AM PST by Uncle Chip
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To: a fool in paradise

Yea. Here’s my thought process.
Most cops are required to carry off duty.
Off-duty cop stops shooter.
Media doesn’t bother to mention this fact or buries.
Why?
I’m betting it’s because they don’t want to report that a guy with a guy STOPPED a nut who was shooting people. That would be a positive aspect of a gun story, verboten by presstitutes.

Don’t know, but that’s where the logic takes me.


105 posted on 01/15/2014 6:24:38 AM PST by Lee'sGhost (Johnny Rico picked the wrong girl!)
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To: KeyLargo

That woman sounds like she suffers from hysteria.


106 posted on 01/15/2014 6:25:02 AM PST by a fool in paradise ("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
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To: MrB

I witnessed an interesting exchange that really put things into perspective concerning the character of SOME LEO. It was a big lotto night and I was in a rather long line in a convenience store. The clerk was obviously having some issues and the patience of the patrons was starting to erode. A guy walks in to the store (plain clothes), gets some things, looks at the line and approaches the next guy in line and says, “Bud, I need to go in front of you. I’m a cop.” The guy looks at him, looks at the line, looks back and says, “I think you should go to the end of the line and wait like the rest of us.” The cop pulled attitude and asked if he was getting smart (or maybe did he think that was smart... something about being smart). I couldn’t hear it all until it got a little louder. But here was the catch phrase that sent the officer packing.

“You want smart? Here’s smart. I need you to get pissed off, do something stupid, touch me or arrest me for not allowing you to cut in line. Then I need to sue you, this city, the police department and everyone else. Then I wouldn’t need to buy lottery tickets. This is a free country. So you go and do what you think you should do, tough guy.” Followed up by a tiny young lady, “...You should go to the end of the line, officer.”

He left the store all together. I almost asked to see his badge so I could get the number but didn’t want to escalate the tense situation. (I chickened out).


107 posted on 01/15/2014 6:25:06 AM PST by Tenacious 1 (Liberals can afford for things to go well, to work, for folks to be happy. They'd be out of work.)
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To: Age of Reason

according to he version, this 71 year old had time to reach into his pants, grab his weapon, and point it at the victim. If there was a sucker punch coming as a follow on to the popcorn, it would have happened by the time he had a gun pointed at the guy...


108 posted on 01/15/2014 6:26:10 AM PST by Homer1
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To: TheRhinelander

For a troll, you are pretty lame. Can’t you do better than that?


109 posted on 01/15/2014 6:26:31 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Alas Babylon!
The other thing is the movie hadn’t started. The old cop told him to stop texting during the previews.

Continue your conversation with your partner that you had while the house lights were up and see if the entire audience doesn't glare at you. Go on, try talking at normal voice during the previews and see if others don't think you are ruining their movie experience.

110 posted on 01/15/2014 6:27:30 AM PST by a fool in paradise ("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
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To: usconservative
I'm just wondering when I'm going to need a permit to conceal/carry popcorn.

Isn't that already a law in NYC? Don't you need, like, a note from the doctor or something to buy popcorn at a movie theater there? Maybe that's only for the large buckets.

111 posted on 01/15/2014 6:27:53 AM PST by Tenacious 1 (Liberals can afford for things to go well, to work, for folks to be happy. They'd be out of work.)
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To: Black Agnes

I go to about 0.2 movies per year for those reasons and others.


112 posted on 01/15/2014 6:27:56 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Onelifetogive
Many on FR are prejudging this EXACTLY the same way the race-grievance industry prejudged Zimmerman.

Baloney --

This is a retired cop with a good record and yet the judge is holding him without bond because the seriousness of the charge and the evidence of his guilt is substantial.

113 posted on 01/15/2014 6:28:54 AM PST by Uncle Chip
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To: Durus

So then he could have changed his seat.

But apparently he has an issue with texting in a show and needed to prove that he was still an authority figure.


114 posted on 01/15/2014 6:29:09 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: TheRhinelander; Travis McGee

“My grandfather gassed your grandmother”.

Just for the record, what does that statement mean? Are you saying your grandfather was a Nazi or simply throwing around Nazi comments?


115 posted on 01/15/2014 6:29:10 AM PST by momtothree
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To: Anton.Rutter
‘In Fear of Being Attacked’

Same thing he said Forty years ago when he shot the neighbor Lady's dog.

116 posted on 01/15/2014 6:29:26 AM PST by BigCinBigD (...Was that okay?)
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To: DeWalt
Do these law professors even undersrand simple law.

There exists a liberal academic bias.

Stalinists lie. ALWAYS.

Even if the law professors are aware of the genuine facts in the Zimmerman case, they serve to push an agenda to repeal such laws (and disarm the general populace). Creating confusion among the public by deliberate distortion of facts serves that end.

117 posted on 01/15/2014 6:29:30 AM PST by a fool in paradise ("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
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To: TheRhinelander
And then my grandfather killed your grandfather, defeated your country, and I got to step on your country's soil 50 years later as an OCCUPIER. LOL. German Nazi fags.


118 posted on 01/15/2014 6:29:34 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
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To: Travis McGee

The last movie hubby and I went to was National Treasure 2. Back in early ‘08. That was the last time we asked a set of grandparents to keep all the kids at once. Haven’t been to a movie theater since.

Too many kids now, too expensive and nearly zero worthwhile storylines.


119 posted on 01/15/2014 6:31:40 AM PST by Black Agnes
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To: KeyLargo
"The sheriff said at a news conference that Reeves' son — who was off duty from his job as a Tampa officer — was walking into the theater when the shooting happened. Nocco said Reeves briefly struggled with an off-duty deputy but released the weapon. The gun was jammed and unable to fire again."

So let me get this straight, the off duty officer who struggled with the shooter was the shooter's own son?

120 posted on 01/15/2014 6:31:44 AM PST by a fool in paradise ("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
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