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Originally Posted by Lil Dancer
That was exactly the case, Red. The whole episode was caught on 911 tape. We listened to him as the operator cautioned him not to go after the guys,but the killer did just that . They were carting goods away from his neighbor's house. He could have done nothing, and they would have gotten away with the loot, but he insisted he wasn't going to let that happen, and he told the 911 person he'd kill them if he had to. And then he did it. It was vigilante justice at its worst. It was just sickening to me that he got away with it - that people thought that type of behavior was okay. It sets a bad precident, to be sure.
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To me a worse precedent is if scum believe they can victimize people in their homes in every way possible, and know they can get away with it if they can beat the response times for law enforcement officers. Depending on where you live, the response time can be as short as 1 minute or as long as 20 minutes (or longer), and that depends on what else is going on that the LEO is tasked to take care of. That's why such crimes occur over and over again in certain areas.
If the house next-door is tagged by scum who get away with it because of long LEO response times, you can expect to be next - it's the scum business model and philosophy.
People say a lot of things when they are excited, so what was said to a 911 operator must be taken in context to the situation. Without reading a full transcript of the trial, I'm hard-pressed to judge a person based on how the Fourth Estate summarizes it and packages that summary for sale to media outlets. Too many times people are judged on sensatiionalized or biased reporting, and an examination of ALL the facts (even though it's time-consuming) portrays a different picture of the event.
Sorry, but burglars, home invaders, and muggers go looking for a soft touch and their actions impart great fear and terror into their victims. So, if that fear and terror morphs into a significant reaction against the burlars, home invaders and muggers, there's no sympathy from me. I have always found it strange when these "poor innocent mis-understood outcasts of society" get what they give, they are now defended as victims themselves. When they intiate an action, they had better prepared for an outcome not to their liking.
Personally, that's the kind of neighbor I like. Apparently, so do a dozen others within his community.