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

https://abcnews.go.com/US/shooter-florida-stand-ground-case-charged-manslaughter/story?id=57151343 ^ | 8/13/2018 | BILL HUTCHINSON

[dragnet2]

The Florida man who invoked the "stand your ground" self-defense after shooting a black man in a dispute over a parking space was charged Monday with manslaughter, officials said.

Michael Drejka, 47, was arrested Monday morning in the fatal shooting in July of Markeis McGlockton in Clearwater, Florida.

[wardaddy]

Amen and judging from your nick you understand force and weapons

I’d never dream of killing someone in front of their five year old for pushing me down

And yep I’ve been pushed down and smacked...a lot actually

Maybe I’m not “tough”enough

Old wardaddy let’s folks push him down and give him the stink eye without killing em

Cue Coward of the County....

[wardaddy]

That’s admissible .

Shows prior intent.

[wardaddy]

C63

[wardaddy]

Amen brother and howdy

[wardaddy]

True but it’s still a bad shoot

[wardaddy]

AAA

Man you are making my night....to see a poster I’ve respected forever say exactly what I said on the threads when this happened

If you kill a man for pushing you down where I grew up....West Jackson Miss ...working class white then...hood now

We fought....a lot

You’d be a coward if you shot a man for pushing you down or if you stabbed them

Only a pussy would do that

You fight back or you retreat ....with some grace if possible

You don’t pull iron and kill a man with his preschooler standing there..

This gimp was looking to use his steel courage seems to me

I’m still chuckling...woke wifey up....kids are back in school

Tks man

Folks here play too many video games too little real life

I bet you’re like me ....you’d need a graveyard if you shot everyone pushed you or you fought with

Hell I’d have nothing but dead friends and sons...they’ve all fought each other one time or another

My 15 and 18 year old just a few weeks ago in the back....one went for a steel chair and I intervened...I’m like no just cause you’re getting worst of it ...no tools

Fight it out or quit

[wardaddy]

I agree about the question of admissible but see post 63

Likely admissible

It’s more specific and shows prior intent

[wardaddy]

Do you Scots shoot folks who push you down?

I doubt it

[wardaddy]

Average military guy and good old boy with a southern accent in interior Florida is less likely to shoot you than this turd with a Yankee surname

We know the difference between getting pushed down or a fistfight and the need to kill someone

A few folks here must be pretty scared in general

[wardaddy]

Old guy is 47....what are you a teenager....please

He’ll i had a major fistfight at 46....cops came the whole nine yards

Nobody shot anybody but the other guy had to go to the emergency room and he was half my age

Glad he wasn’t a heeled coward per some freeper logic

My kids woulda been fatherless...at least for a few months...lol

[wardaddy]

Good point

At first he just saw a woman

All the swinging Johnsons on this thread should see post 63

And then comment on this coward who killed a man in front of his little kid cause he got pushed down

[wardaddy]

Likely black?

This coward piece of gimp shyt killed a man for pushing him down in front of his little kid....what sort of weak pussy does that?

He’s a freak show who hurts our second amendment freedoms

And all you guys have a hypotheticals about two blinks and five feet and whatnot.

You know damn well I’m not black ....hell im called racist and bigot more than anyone on this forum...even by two folks I see on this thread one of whom is black and is on your side

I know a bad shoot when I see one and this one clearly is

I think some here just can’t handle a big black guy pushing down this worm....

Fighting blacks ain’t no big scary thing for me I’ve been dealing with them all my life when they get froggy

I think folks here sell a lot of wolf tickets and love to call folks like me racist when I truth speak about black group behavior

But in reality it’s them who are actually racist even though they dare not take an open stand that might make them get called that here

In other words

The C word again

I was just admonished as a bigot earlier today for sayin Omarosa was an ugly black woman by a race baiter poster

Yet I think this young black man got murdered pretty much by a coward who’s balls are found wherever he keeps his CCW card

[greenishness]

Why don’t you tell us how you really feel?

[wardaddy]

Bump

Another poster I respect with a sound view in this

Tks

[wardaddy]

Hell yes

Man you are the third freeper in good standing I recognize saying the right thing

I love that

Tks

[wardaddy]

I’m actuallly happy

Lots of freepers I like and admire having same opinion I had from jump street weeks ago

Alas everyone’s gone to bed

Lol

So night

Were you being peevish?

[DoodleDawg]

C63

I've felt all along that Drejka has been looking for the opportunity to shoot someone. We'll see how it works out for him.

[ek_hornbeck]

That doesn't change the fact that Markeis McGlockton was a thug who got what he deserved. He punched a guy for telling his girlfriend to move from a handicapped parking space, which may not legally justify his being shot, but I'm not exactly crying over his death either. Incidentally, McGlockton is a convicted felon, so the world is better off without him regardless.

Sometimes two wrongs do make a right.

[greenishness]

I figured you and I were the only ones awake and was having some fun with you.

I don’t disagree with you, not really sure where I am on this yet.

[Justa]

Well, the (Leftist) Tampa Bay Times cites several incidents of LEOs responding to reports of Drejka’s hostility, even brandishing a firearm in 2012 from his truck. If the prosecution can get the officers to testify it could show a clear pattern of aggression, ultimately leading to 1st degree manslaughter.

The state has a lot of dots to connect to prove manslaughter and disprove self-defense. Their quick filing tells me they believe they have what they need.

Pinellas county arrests thousands of ppl a week. They made a cursory review of the tape and saw self-defense, as I did. They didn’t have the time to get to the history of the shooter. The state investigators otoh have the time and resources to dig into events for a more comprehensive review.

The defense will try and limit the trial to the act of self-defense, which imo, is marginal but legal. A lot of time passed before Drejka’s second shot and McGlockton was not advancing toward him. Does that constitute a lack of reasonable belief in imminent bodily harm? Was the right of self-defense inapplicable at the second shot? It’s debatable.

With the manslaughter charge the long pause can now be asserted as illustrative of Drejka’s intent. An intent he had displayed for years prior on several previous occasions. It could be cited as an example of his intent to enter into a confrontation which would reasonably cause the death of another. I.e., manslaughter.