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| Thief's family mad at homeowner for shooting him: He's a victim, ‘how else he gonna get money?' |
| 2016-03-17 |
| The family of a Miami teenager who was shot and killed while burglarizing a home is blasting the homeowner for defending her property. Trevon Johnson, 17, died Thursday following a gunshot wound from the owner, Gwendolyn Jenrette, who shot him as he fled from her house after breaking into it, according to police. |
| Posted by:Blossom Unains5562 |
| #16 Alaska Paul, and the unions that drove the big auto companies into the ground. Cost a lot of black jobs. And increases in minimum wage that replaced unskilled blacks with illegal Mexicans who could be paid under the table. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2016-03-17 18:36 |
| #15 NoMoreBS nails it. This is why CA is full steam ahead with releasing an additional 40,000 criminals early. In 2015, violent crime in CA rose 20% bucking a near 12 year trend. Property crime up close to 150% (see OP). For the Dems, this is real, measurable progress towards what NoMoreBS posits. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2016-03-17 17:34 |
| #14 Law functions in society where it is both viewed as moral and a deterrent. Where the subset of society has no moral compass, or worse, a lifeview that imprisonment is a rite of passage, law mostly fails as a deterrent. So, enhanced law enforcement is added to the more criminal portions of the society. Now, we have reached a point in the manipulation of race as a policy tool, that the disproportionate number of minorities in custody is a reality, and only two explanations are reasonable: either minorities commit crimes at a disproportionate rate, or the system is racist. Since the first is a politically unacceptable answer, it must be the second. So, now the more criminal subset of society gets to further enhance the victim card debt and act out. Voila unrest coming to a neighborhood near you.... |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2016-03-17 15:52 |
| #13 Whiskey Mike - it's called Black Privilege. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2016-03-17 15:33 |
| #12 Thank Lyndon Johnson's Great Society for destroying the black family by massive welfare and no responsibility, just to get votes. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2016-03-17 15:23 |
| #11 I think instead of 3 felonies and you get life, it should really be 3 felonies and you get to ride the nitrogen chamber. It'd keep the prisons empty and you can use them for organ donors. By the time you've been convicted three times for felonies, your value to society is completely negative with no hope for redemption. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2016-03-17 14:13 |
| #10 Whiskey Mike if they saw crime as a job they would not do it. |
| Posted by: regular joe 2016-03-17 13:55 |
| #9 Sometimes, when stories like this pop up, I feel like people like these families see crime as a valid career choice. It's just another job. This viewpoint, if I am even half right, would explain a lot of what looks otherwise as dim-wittery. |
| Posted by: Whiskey Mike 2016-03-17 12:16 |
| #8 I'd bet the family are all vermin living their entitlement addicted lives on taxpayer's back. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2016-03-17 11:51 |
| #7 Should have taught him how to work and feed himself. I know you idiots don't. You know, they are stealing from society then if they don't work, can and collect welfare. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2016-03-17 11:30 |
| #6 The basic complaint is that homeowner already called the police so she didn't "have to" shoot. The reality is, that Trevon The Honor Student would have learned that he could repeat offend with impunity. Instead he learned that crime does not pay, which is something they can carve on his headstone, so that his family can read and learn (if they can). |
| Posted by: regular joe 2016-03-17 10:51 |
| #5 Just another tragic tale of workplace firearms violence! Really if you want money that bad you should have told your son about stealing wire from the FPL substations. When those guys get fried the family gets a go away settlement. Because the power company can use legal expenses to keep them from having excessive profits. Of course you have to split it with Dewey, Cheatum and Howe. |
| Posted by: Pliny Glons2836 2016-03-17 10:23 |
| #4 When the family pipes up like this, the Israeli approach to families of terrorists should be followed. We've had the same attitude displayed here. Early morning, individual walks into a Dunkin Donuts, pulls a gun on the clerk. Clerk pulls own gun, kills assailant. Family member shows up days later in a hysterical fit for killing their kindred. We're probably different than Florida. No jury here would convict someone defending their lives or property (as the local 'authorities' can't claim they're doing a bang up job themselves). Insurance is not an excuse for theft, you are stealing that part of one's life one worked for to attain. That time can not be replaced. That time is gone. We only have so much time on this planet. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-03-17 08:57 |
| #3 If 'Obama's son' was fleeing while shot, Ms. Jenrette may be in trouble, both criminal and financial - certainly would be in many states, but Florida is not quite so accepting of home invasions. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2016-03-17 08:26 |
| #2 Shoot the family too. |
| Posted by: Uluse the Limber5607 2016-03-17 05:21 |
| #1 I hope Mrs Jenrette moved in with relatives, preferably in the country, for a time. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-03-17 03:22 |