First and foremost, he needed to die. Once we settle when he did, we're no longer talking about the ninth and finisher not being a killer shot, but it might have been abuse of a corpse. Most of us seem to agree with the idea to keep on shooting until we're sure he's dead. He's a piece of shit, dead or alive. All we're really sure of is the good citizen helped him along the path to rightful end. Might not have been needed, but you can never be sure. Better to waste another bullet than to discover he needed on and not get it.
Maybe we should take up a collection and just buy him an extra box or two. Ammo may be expensive, but not so much we couldn't afford it. After all, he may decide to go eat out and run into one of the dead guys friends who needs a good shooting. I'd suggest he got to a larger or bigger caliber to improve his confidence level.
We're gun guys here and most of us approve of a bigger and more deadly gun if possible. The damn Feds won't "allow" us to carry more effective weapons. Maybe our friend the shooter should buy a second carry gun to haul along, just in case.
Whoops, I see I made kind of an error. This was Texas, so while my comment that he needed to die was technically correct, maybe it would have been better stated as "he needed killin' ".
Unhappy ammo seeker
January 11, 2023, 10:02 AM
smschulz
quote:
Originally posted by rburg:
Whoops, I see I made kind of an error. This was Texas, so while my comment that he needed to die was technically correct, maybe it would have been better stated as "he needed killin' ".
Thank you,
January 11, 2023, 11:07 AM
tatortodd
quote:
Originally posted by 220-9er: Hopefully a favorable ruling by the Grand jury will create a little more reluctance by the area felons to reconsider where they ply their trade.
Doubtful the turds follow grand jury rulings.
The big surprise to me is that in that part of town (edge of Sharpstown which is rough) at 11:30 PM that everybody in the restaurant didn't pull out a gun like the scene in Code of Silence
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January 11, 2023, 11:15 AM
220-9er
quote:
Doubtful the turds follow grand jury rulings.
True, but this is a big news story that's hard to miss.
Decades ago when I first moved to Atlanta, there had been a number of convenience store robberies that had ended with the clerks murdered. The police started a stakeout squad placing SWAT cops in the coolers that would briefly challenge and them end the robbery by shooting a few misguided "youts". For a while, the robbery rate declined significantly. Unfortunately the usual bleeding heart types files suits and the courts ended this excellent and effective practice.
The police started a stakeout squad placing SWAT cops in the coolers that would briefly challenge and them end the robbery by shooting a few misguided "youts".
Real Life imitating Cinema!
January 11, 2023, 01:45 PM
flashguy
Ditto on the "he needed killin'!
flashguy
Texan by choice, not accident of birth
January 11, 2023, 04:25 PM
Plugugly
Nothing wrong with shooting, as long as the right people are being shot.
January 11, 2023, 05:19 PM
MikeinNC
^^ Harry Callahan said that ^^
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January 16, 2023, 05:23 PM
tatortodd
Houston activists must have found a way to make some money off this. Quanell-X has previously admitted to the media that he has a five figure non-refundable consulting fee for this sort of thing.
At least he admits the armed robber was wrong for robbing the taqueria, and the good Samaritan was within the law for his initial shots.
The activists say the shooter when from being a law-abiding citizen to a lawbreaker when he continued to fire despite there being no threat
Louis Casiano By Louis Casiano | Fox News
Community activists in Houston are calling for a restaurant patron who shot and killed a robbery suspect during a holdup to be arrested, saying he went beyond self-defense despite many calling him a hero.
Customers were eating inside a local taqueria when 30-year-old Eric Eugene Washington entered and pointed a pistol at them and demanded cash. As he gathered the cash, an armed patron can be seen on surveillance video getting up from the booth he was sitting in and shooting his pistol at Washington multiple times.
"He was within the law when he fired the first initial shots," said activist Quanell X in a news conference in front of the establishment. "But we believe he went from being a law-abiding citizen to a lawbreaker."
Washington ultimately fell to the ground and died. The unidentified shooter has not been charged and has cooperated with authorities.
The man's attorney released a statement saying: "In Texas, a shooting is justified in self-defense, defense of others, and defense of property."
The armed diner has been hailed a hero by many but local activists said he went beyond self-defense when he fired several more times than needed to neutralize the threat posed by Washington, who was holding a fake gun.
"You do not go and shoot someone over and over when they are no longer a threat," said Candace Matthews of the New Black Panther Nation. "He was actually in the clear for a justified kill by shooting him like he did the first time when he was no longer a threat."
The shooter fired a total of nine shots as Washington was leaving the restaurant. Washington was shot as he was on the restaurant floor after he had been disarmed, Fox Houston reported.
"I'm hoping the grand jury does something because if they don't, the message that will be sent will be the wild wild west," Quanell X said. "He should be charged with something," saying the man left the scene before authorities arrived and fired even after Washington was unarmed.
He noted that he doesn't condone Washington's actions and that he deserved to be punished, but not killed. He also said the shooter dumped a drink on Washington as he was leaving the restaurant and threw a cup at him.
At the least, it's called abuse of a corpse, that's a misdemeanor crime in Harris County," he said.
Washington's mother, Corine Goodman, said the shooter should have stopped firing as soon as there was no longer a threat.
"If you had to kill him, I can deal with that. I can come to grips with that. He did something wrong, I understand that," she said. "But for him to be shot four times in the back leaving and when he falls down and he shoots him four more times. He abused him."
A grand jury is weighing whether the shooter will face charges.
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January 16, 2023, 05:43 PM
gearhounds
It’s funny. The typical rats are coming out of the woodwork over a thug that got what he asked for who clearly didn’t learn his lesson the last time he went to prison for the same exact crime.
Quanell X? Wth is a Quanell X?
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January 16, 2023, 05:50 PM
vthoky
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WTH is a Quanell X
According to the Wiki... "Quanell X is an activist and leader of the New Black Panther Nation in Houston, Texas."
It appears to me he's simply a fella trying to make some money off a criminal's death.
MSN article claiming he owes big money for "services" not rendered.
quote:
For decades, Quanell X Abdul Farrakhan, 51, has been considered by many as the standard-bearer of social consciousness in Houston. He cultivated a reputation that many consider well-earned. He fought for those who suffered police violence, unfair evictions and racial discrimination in the workplace.
But a Houston Chronicle investigation — which included a review of hundreds of court documents, copies of contracts and cashed checks, as well as interviews with dozens of individuals and former close allies of Quanell — found the activist repeatedly accepted cash in exchange for advocacy, then didn’t fulfill his promises.
Standard-bearer, eh?
God bless America.
January 16, 2023, 05:53 PM
oddball
^^^^
The dude was in the Nation of Islam with Farrakan, and now the New Black Panthers. In other words, a racist grifter.
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January 16, 2023, 05:59 PM
HRK
quote:
"You do not go and shoot someone over and over when they are no longer a threat," said Candace Matthews of the New Black Panther Nation.
Hmm, seems Law Enforcement disagrees with her assesment...
Sheriff Grady Judd said to defend his deputies in Polk County FL after they killed a suspect who killed another deputy.
Face to face with an armed man suspected of killing a Polk County deputy sheriff, SWAT officers riddled his body with 68 bullets.
Altogether, nine officers fired 110 times Friday at Angilo Freeland, who Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said "executed" one of his deputies.
"That's all the bullets we had, or we would have shot him more," Judd said after autopsy results were released Saturday.
January 16, 2023, 06:06 PM
12131
Aah, scumbags siding with scumbags. And the sun still rises in the East..
Q
January 16, 2023, 07:01 PM
tatortodd
quote:
Originally posted by vthoky:
quote:
WTH is a Quanell X
According to the Wiki... "Quanell X is an activist and leader of the New Black Panther Nation in Houston, Texas."
Wikipedia is heavily sanitized. A few things left out:
former drug dealer on Houston's southside
lead an armed march on downtown Houston when we were hosting a national convention. Him and his thugs marched on downtown with rifles slung over shoulder. It was many years before open carrying pistols was legal in Texas, but slung rifles were legal.
On a positive note. My buddy is a Harris County deputy, and was actually in the conference room as security where he witnessed a pretty unique event. 2 black girls were allegedly beaten by a girl of another race at school, and school wasn't doing enough to please the black girls' parents so they hired Quanell-X to get justice for their innocent little girls. He makes a big splashy entrance to the meeting at the school, gives an interview to the media in front of the school, goes in the school, and joins everyone in the conference room. The school plays the security footage which shows the two little black girls waiting outside a classroom for the other girl, they jump the other girl as soon as she steps foot in the hallway, and the other girl single-handedly whoops their asses in self-defense. Conference room is dead silent, Quanell X stands up, walks out without saying a word, and dodged the media. In other words, he's either gotten some morals or better sense of business preservation now that he's over the hill. I suspect the latter.
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January 16, 2023, 07:18 PM
nhtagmember
quote:
Originally posted by gearhounds: It’s funny. The typical rats are coming out of the woodwork over a thug that got what he asked for who clearly didn’t learn his lesson the last time he went to prison for the same exact crime.
Quanell X? Wth is a Quanell X?
he signs his name with an X because he/she/it/they is most likely illiterate
January 17, 2023, 02:19 AM
iron chef
quote:
Originally posted by gearhounds: Quanell X? Wth is a Quanell X?
He's a poor man's Al Sharpton, a race baiter, and as oddball posted, a racial grifter.
January 17, 2023, 06:25 AM
Sig2340
Shooter turned himself in and is cooperating. Released uncharged.
And this tidbit:
“On Monday, the medical examiner identified 30-year-old Eric Eugene Washington as the robbery suspect who was killed.
Records show Washington had an extensive criminal history and was out on bond during the would-be robbery.
Records show that in 2015, Washington was convicted on a lesser charge of aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon and sentenced to 15 years in prison in connection to the shooting death of 62-year-old Hamid Waraich, a cell phone store owner. Houston police also charged two other men.
According to records, Washington was released on parole in 2021 and charged with assaulting his girlfriend in December 2022.
