An 84 year old white man shot a 16 year old black male [Ralph Yarl] who he thought was trying to break into his house: https://archive.is/cEyj3
It was around 10pm. The 84yo picked up his gun & went to the door. He saw a 6ft tall black male pulling on the exterior door handle. He shot twice. The black male ran away & 84yo called 911. The 84yo stated that he was afraid & defending himself. There is no basis for any claim that race was in any way a factor.
That's it. That's all there is. The kid - who didn't die - obviously denies trying to force his way in & said he went to the wrong house.
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This has absolutely blown up to George Floyd levels of bullshit on the Left. Ralph Yarl & his family got a personal phone call from Joe Biden & an invitation to the White House.
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The libs are treating this as though it was an execution of an innocent black teen honor student by an evil old white man wearing a "Nuck Figgers" T-shirt.
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Ralph Yarl isn't "black black" he belongs to that special elite group beloved by the Left: recent African immigrants. Just like Obama. He's already being sainted in the media: North Kansas City School District Superintendent Dan Clemens emailed "Ralph is an excellent student and talented musician. He maintains a stellar GPA while taking mostly college level courses. While he loves science and hopes to pursue that career path, his passion is music."
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"Many celebrities, such as Viola Davis, Halle Berry, Justin Timberlake, Kerry Washington, and Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs, have condemned the shooting."
This is the kind of "test case" the libs have been waiting for. The facts don't actually fit their narrative as there is absolutely no proof that the 84yo was motivated by race, and the circumstances [late night, a stranger trying to force the door] make his actions perfectly legal & reasonable. But it is close enough to have triggered a dormant lib rapid reaction race war task force.
Also a 20 year old white woman was shot & murdered under far worse circumstances around the same time in New York. Kaylin Gillis was a passenger in a vehicle that turned into the wrong driveway, and was murdered while still in the car by Kevin Monahan 65yo, firing from his porch. "It's a very rural area with dirt roads. It's easy to get lost. They drove up this driveway for a very short time, realized their mistake and were leaving, when Mr. Monahan came out and fired two shots," Monahan "refused to exit his residence to speak with police." & the cops had to call the SWAT team. This dude is clearly one of those "innawoods" fucking nut jobs who wrongly believes he can go weapons hot on anyone who crosses the boundary line of his land. But since the victim was white, no one gives a shit except for some local gun control grifters.
Democrats want to destroy this country. They want a race war. They'll stop at nothing to encourage stochastic terrorism from blacks as we saw with the Waukesha Christmas parade massacre.
edit: for people who thinking ringing the door bell is proof the kid wasn't up to no good:
KGW's investigative team sent letters to 86 inmates currently serving time for burglary in the Oregon Department of Corrections. The inmates were asked to respond anonymously to 17 questions detailing how they broke in, when the crime occurred and what they were looking for.
"Did you typically knock on the front door before breaking into a home? Yes. All of the inmates who responded said they would knock on the front door before breaking in." https://archive.is/M1zDQ
He was just following “President” Biden’s advice for home security.
I agree that the old man should not be answering his door like this.
However, charging him with attempted murder under these circumstances is absurd & political. At a minimum, this is an edge case where the old man's rationale was not as good as it should have been, but we usually do not crucify old people for shooting someone who they think is trying to break in late at night.
Exactly. Elderly people or those who are less physically able generally get more leeway in use-of-force situations, for obvious reasons.
Missouri law allows for deadly force if there is an apparent attempt to open the home via an intruder, it doesn't even have to be a proven attempt. The homeowner just has to think that someone was attempting to get in. There is no requirement of actually crossing the threshold either.
Pretty good look at it here https://youtu.be/saGcNO8BFfg?t=930
I think shooting through the door makes sense in several cases. Including if someone on the other side is screaming "I'll kill you", or if it looks like they are trying to break down the door, and if you are a physically vulnerable person like a pregnant woman, disabled person, or fragile old man.
When you're that old, there's a real good chance that a physical confrontation with a 50 year old could kill you, let alone a 16 year old.
Or if its a glass storm door.
The door's not really enough to tell you whether or not something is or isn't a threat. You need more context clues than that.
Yeah, I don't really like it. Not every defensive shooting is as clear-cut as Kyle Rittenhouse, though I wish it were.
If he's just rattling the door knob, I'd say it's not great. If it were clear he was trying to kick the thing in, that's a legally better shoot.