It's OK to shoot an escort if she won't have sex with you...

[robertlouis]

She wasn't murdered .

FFS Cecil. Maybe not in the mad testosterone-driven nuthouse that is Texas, but in any sane jurisdiction this was murder or manslaughter at the very least.

[Cecil Rhodes]

FFS Cecil. Maybe not in the mad testosterone-driven nuthouse that is Texas, but in any sane jurisdiction this was murder or manslaughter at the very least.

She was stealing property and was told to stop . She was shot . The law allowed it . She did not die . The victim [ accused / acquitted ] did not intend to kill, but to stop . Mens Rea ie Intent is necessary for Guilt .

[Cecil Rhodes]

FFS Cecil. Maybe not in the mad testosterone-driven nuthouse that is Texas, but in any sane jurisdiction this was murder or manslaughter at the very least.

like in the UK ....... just ask Michael Duggan

[robertlouis]

She was stealing property and was told to stop . She was shot . The law allowed it . She did not die . The victim [ accused / acquitted ] did not intend to kill, but to stop . Mens Rea ie Intent is necessary for Guilt .

Then, to quote Mr Bumble, "The law is a ass."

[robertlouis]

like in the UK ....... just ask Michael Duggan

Fair enough. There are too many cases here of people dying in police custody, fewer of them being shot, but these circumstances are completely different.

In a culture - and I'm talking about Texas, not generalising the whole USA - where gun-totin' is like wearing your balls outside your pants, it doesn't surprise me that this happened. Nor that the prick got away with it.

And yes, I've been to Texas, business and pleasure. Mostly Dallas but also Houston and, thank goodness, played a couple of gigs in Austin, a civilised island of normality in a sea of madness.

[trish]

Bait and switch my ass. The ad said escort_not hooker. But for the sake of argument let's call bait-and-switch. She was shot for $150.00 and that's considered legal in the fucked-up-the-ass-state-of-texas. In sane and civilized regions of the world penny-ante bait and switch is not a shooting offense. The assailant should be sitting in jail and have his firearm confiscated. (Go ahead idiot, give me a thumbs down now).

[Cecil Rhodes]

Bait and switch my ass. The ad said escort_not hooker. But for the sake of argument let's call bait-and-switch. She was shot for $150.00 and that's considered legal in the fucked-up-the-ass-state-of-texas. In sane and civilized regions of the world penny-ante bait and switch is not a shooting offense. The assailant should be sitting in jail and have his firearm confiscated. (Go ahead idiot, give me a thumbs down now).

This post is not even worth my time critiquing .

[trish]

Doesn't it just aggravate you that by disparaging Texas and disagreeing with you I've committed a shooting offense and yet the only thing you can do is give me a thumbs down? What losers!

[Willie Escalade]

Actually, the shooting paralyzed her and she dies months later (don't know if it was related or not)...

Go Spurs!

[robertlouis]

So, let me try and get this straight. You are holding someone else's property and for whatever reason you refuse to give it back.

The property owner then draws a gun and shoots you, paralysing you with a wound from which you subsequently die.

The case goes to trial and the shooter is acquitted because the law says he was within his rights to do so?

That is just fucked-up beyond words.