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Excaliber wrote:
The current situation is demonstrably not safer for everyone since it leads to high victim counts whenever one of those safer thugs decides to go on a murder spree.
It's also clearly not safer for individual crime victims like the young lady cited in your example.
Maintaining a safe environment for violent thugs and a dangerous one for law abiding citizens is not what I expect from my elected representatives, and I back my opinions with my votes.
Well said!It doesn’t really matter as their actions are taken as a whole. Plus, it is now a felony charge instead of just petty theft. Yippee!speedsix wrote:
...no, he was absolutely correct...it WAS theft rather than robbery by law...you only quoted PART of what the act of robbery is...when you read the REST of the definition, then you have the explanation for why the charges were upgraded to aggravated robbery...which it WASN'T before she got stupid and climbed their car...the rest of the definition is part of the definition...and can't be ignored, if you want to understand what happened and why a theft turned into a robbery...after she intervened...
SQLGeek wrote:All Keith said was that she put herself in danger by doing what she did...that's pretty much a fact, I don't know that you can dispute that. Jumping on a car to prevent somebody from going somewhere is fool's errand. There's a lady in Manteca, CA that could attest to that fact.M2K wrote: I totally disagree with the rest of your position.
I put myself in danger everyday when I cross the street in down town Dallas.Keith B wrote:There was no robbery, just theft (shoplifting.) There was no threat of injury or to life, and since it was only theft in the daytime, she would not have been able to use a CHL to stop it. And, I don't care how important beer or any other minor property is (televisions, stereos, food, etc.) she put herself in danger when she tried to intervene as she did. Yelling, following to ge descriptions of them and vehicle, etc. would have been fine, but dancing on their car was way overboard.M2K wrote:This woman did the right thing for the right reasons. Her methods may be questioned but not her stance on the issue. The real question is why did none of the other nearby people jump in to help? Did she not yell thief? Or if she did, did the other shoppers just ignore the situation as most “worried about my own self preservation” people would.
Secondly, it’s not what was stolen but the fact a robbery occurred. To some people beer is dog gone important especially if it is MGD. In some households it is the main meal to be consumed with great gusto.
