#140 of My Stupid State series
Screw you Rick Scott. Screw you and all you rednecks with legislative power who imposed this idiotic monstrosity on Florida.
Colt Thriemer and Thomas J Brown got into a fist fight at a Walmart Parking Lot. There were several witnesses who say that the victim, Thomas Brown, was walking away afterwards to his car when Colt Thriemer shot Thomas Brown after retrieving a handgun. Mr. Brown was shot 10 times at fairly close range both in the back while he was walking away and then when he turned towards Mr. Thriemer after being shot, apparently pleading him to stop. Mr. Thriemer then fled the scene.
When he was apprehended, he did what all murderers do now in Florida: claim he was in "fear for his life". The prosecutor agreed.
The prosecutor's statement summed up all that is fucking wrong with Stand Your Ground:
"The Stand Your Ground Statue makes no exception to the immunity because Brown may have been walking away from Thriemer when deadly force was used."That's because the f_ing law was made by f_ing imbeciles.
What's worse, when they had the chance to fix the law after Travoyn Martin's death, the legislature refused. Rick Scott appointed a "panel" stacked with the law's proponents and authors who thought it was just dandy.
The bastards wouldn't even tweak it to say if you are who originally caused the violence, you can't then say you "feared for your life"
Right now in Florida, a man can stalk a woman, attack her, and if she say, knees him in the groin or throws a rock at him, the man can shoot her and claim he was "in fear of his life". Thankfully, most of our prosecutors and judges aren't fucking morons like our politicians, but Rick Scott and AG Pam Bondi are trying to change that.
In this case, the prosecutor opined that maybe the victim was walking away to retrieve a gun. Okay, if you thought that at least let this go to trial! But fuck it. These were "poors". And if you thought the latest "purge" movie was far-fetched, come visit.
On second thought, dear God, DON'T!!!