UPDATE:
HOUSTON (AP) — A retired Houston-area firefighter was convicted of murder Wednesday for gunning down his unarmed neighbor during a dispute over a noisy house party, with jurors rejecting his argument that he was within his rights under Texas' version of a stand-your-ground law.
This news of a murder trial going on today in Texas about a man who STOOD HIS GROUND is another tragic story about a wasted life, a man gunned down over some bullshit. In a dispute over noise levels coming from a party, Raul Rodriguez shot elementary school teacher Kelly Danaher to death two years ago. ("Why are you pointing out that he was a school teacher? Stop trying to paint the guy as a saint." - some conservative dickhead.)
There's nothing funny about another pointless murder, but let's try to find something anyway, namely how people seem to think that they can talk their way out of a crime by yelling their way through their misunderstanding of the law, as if you can kill someone, then call "Not it!" while touching your nose and you're covered. It's like asking a prostitute or a drug dealer if they're a cop before you do business. I mean, go for it, but I don't think that's how the law works.
Rodriguez, who is a retired firefighter, which will likely gain him sympathy from the right, (but then again "Rodriguez"), was on the phone with 911 as the altercation escalated, Raw Story reports.
“I’m talking to you, and I mean, I’m scared to death here,” Rodriguez explains to the dispatcher. “It’s about to get out of hand, sir. Please help me, now. I’m standing my ground here.”He also taped himself in the act of the shooting, which probably seemed like a good idea at the time, mostly if he wanted to go viral up on World Star Hip Hop.
“You need to stop right there,” Rodriguez says. “Don’t come any closer please. I’m telling you, I’m telling you, stop, I said stop right now or I will shoot you! … I fear for my life. I told you to stop, my life’s in danger, you got weapons on you, stay away from me.”I fear for my life, he said. Which is why I've come over to stand in your driveway with a video camera and a gun and 911 on the phone (wait how many hands does this dude have?) to confront a group of drunk people.
It will be interesting to see the reaction to this story play out in the media in a post-George Zimmerman era. Will we see an increase in people who think they can get away with murder by shouting out buzzwords.
In Rodriguez's defense, however, who hasn't wanted to kill their neighbors for being too loud from time to time?
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7 comments:
Standing your ground on your neighbor's property? Teacher should have smoked that fool. I hate firefighters, active or retired. Power hungry, camera seeking pricks, the lot of them. I lived behind a fire station for five years and they are some shitty people. Lowlife dickhead city workers. Fuck them all.
Hell yes, I'd like to kill all of my neighbors. If this crappy little state gives us the same law then it's on. I'm standing my ground in your driveway at 2 a.m. with a can of gas and a shotgun. Your sleeping is a threat to my life!
Thanks, Luke. I needed that.
Oh god, please don't do that second part.
What does this have to do with Zimmerman again?
"but then again "Rodriguez""
It's the little gems that make your writing so damn entertaining.
heh. you're too kind.
Anonymous said...
What does this have to do with Zimmerman again?
June 9, 2012 12:39 PM
HAHAYEAH PAULNICE!
Haha! Suck it, fireman!
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