“ The man then pulled a gun on Diarra, who attempted to grab the firearm. The gun was fired, leaving Diarra with a shot to the stomach and grazed in the ear by a bullet.
Diarra proceeded to turn the firearm on the potential thief and shot him in the chest.”
I’m guessing he’s not a white dude.
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Funny how normally the legal argument would be that if you commit a crime and a shooting occurs, it doesn’t matter that you were only the lookout or driver, you still get tried for it. This criminal pulled a gun, the victim tried to defend himself and got shot TWICE in the scuffle, and only then gets the gun away, yet somehow he’s the one on trial?
Moussa Diarra, 57, is also charged with assault and criminal possession of a weapon
He only possessed the weapon because he managed to wrestle it away from the criminal who had shot him twice!
The last time this nonsense happened there:
Alba spent six days in jail until District Attorney Alvin Bragg dropped the murder charge amid intense public pressure.
Let’s hope for more of the same.
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“An educated citizenry is a vital requisite for our survival as a free people.”
-Thomas Jefferson
-Sy Syms
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Not something TJ ever wrote, but I bet he’d have generally agreed with it. As long as one understood the limitations on what he meant by “citizenry.”
ETA: An educated citizenry is a vital requisite for our survival as a free people (Spurious Quotation) | Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
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But Mr Syms is still good to go?
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No clue. TJ just gets more “wisdom” credit than creepy racist rapists should.
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The court documents say that on Sunday, Bentley was found at the intersection of Sullivan Street and North Benbow Road, on NC A&T campus, with a revolver, loaded handgun, a rifle, two shotguns and several hundred rounds of ammunition. He was also found to have a “makeshift firework explosive,” brass knuckles, a machete, a sword, a “blowdart weapon,” a crossbow, a hatchet, a stun gun, a dozen knives, “claws,” and a baton.
Also among the items taken from Bentley were bolts for the crossbow, two “choking devices,” a window breaker, a chicken foot, pepper spray and “holy water.”
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Not to detract from how horrifying that is, but a chicken foot?! Wtf
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That is not good for the people of North Carolina…
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