Does Stand Your Ground Apply

[lostinblue 1,989]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DH8gkcvOQ8

Homicide investigators with HPD said a woman who shot and killed a man in a gas station parking lot may have feared for her life. The confrontation occurred Sunday evening at the Gulf station located on Cullen Boulevard near Yellowstone in southeast Houston. Surveillance video shows the shooter, described as a 23-year-old woman, retrieving a rifle from the trunk of her car and pointing it toward the ground near a man armed with an umbrella and a pocket knife. Then it shows the man swinging at the woman as she steps back and fires the weapon." - KHOU

[Karee 4,190]

Interesting. Unfortunately, I can't answer if stand your ground applies, because I can't tell the race of the participants in the video. Once that is revealed, we'll know which laws apply.

[GandD 5,966]

(Because of Karee not the post)

Edited July 24, 2013 by GandD

[Penny Lane 8,159]

I can't watch the video. What was happening that made the woman get her weapon from her car?

[Jacque67 7,328]

Homicide investigators with HPD said a woman who shot and killed a man in a gas station parking lot may have feared for her life. The confrontation occurred Sunday evening at the Gulf station located on Cullen Boulevard near Yellowstone in southeast Houston. Surveillance video shows the shooter, described as a 23-year-old woman, retrieving a rifle from the trunk of her car and pointing it toward the ground near a man armed with an umbrella and a pocket knife. Then it shows the man swinging at the woman as she steps back and fires the weapon." - KHOU

So what is your opinion?

[Karee 4,190]

I can't watch the video. What was happening that made the woman get her weapon from her car?

It depends. It's either a white guy simply asking for directions from a black lady and being shot by her for no reason, or it's a black guy threatening to kill and rob a white lady and her shooting him because she is in fear for her life. Take your pick.

[Penny Lane 8,159]

So the victim approached the woman?

[GandD 5,966]

I just watched. Its a black guy threatening a black chick. She pulls out the gun, he hits her and she backs away. I guess she shoots him after but I didn't see that part.

Edited July 24, 2013 by GandD

[Jacque67 7,328]

I just watched. Its a black guy threatening a black chick. She pulls out the gun, he hits her and she backs away. I guess she shoots him after but I didn't see that part.

Black on black

[slim 1,530]

So the victim approached the woman?

The woman, like George Zimmerman, is the victim. She was attacked by a criminal and defended herself.

[Penny Lane 8,159]

Black on black

Oh, then who cares?

[Karee 4,190]

Oh, then who cares?

Exactly.

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

Lostinblue does.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Lostinblue does.

God has a plan for him. He just doesn't know what it is yet.

[Teddy B 17,252]

It's very clear that the woman didn't pull her gun until she saw the man with the umbrella was black. If that isn't racial profiling, I don't know what is.