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Originally Posted by manaboutown
From what I have read so far, the girlfriend driver parked in a handicap spot although other spaces were open. She lied stating the lot was otherwise full which it was not as shown by surveillance video. Then she laughably said she did not do anything wrong when of course she had. The elderly gentleman was apparently admonishing her for her wrongdoing perhaps asking her to move her car to one of the open parking spaces so the spot could be used by a handicapped person when her boyfriend came at the man and blindsidedly violently shoved him to the ground without warning. If I were that man I might have felt sufficiently threatened to shoot the physically threatening thug who had already suddenly violently attacked me in self defense myself.
BTW I wonder if the violent shover had a criminal history.
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He wasn't an elderly gentleman. He was in his 40's. HE was defending his girlfriend/wife, who was being harrassed by a stranger. Regardless of what SHE was doing wrong, the shooter didn't have the right to approach her and make demands. That's not what freedom of speech is, first of all. Second of all, it was in a parking lot of a commercial property - which is private property, not public. Freedom of speech laws don't apply to private property.
If it bothered him so much that the woman was in a handicapped spot, he should've gone into the store and informed the manager. Or called the police with the plate number and description of the driver. He chose to take the law into his own hands when he approached the woman in the car, and again when he shot and killed the guy who shoved him in defense of the woman.
Third, the man who shoved the shooter was UNARMED. The shooter killed someone who was unarmed.