A white Florida man who told detectives he was irritated by people who illegally park in handicapped spots was sentenced on Thursday to 20 years in prison for the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man outside a convenience store.Asswipe was shown to be a parking-space vigilante who persisted in doing that even when the store's owner asked him to knock that shit off.
Circuit Judge Joseph Bulone called 49-year-old Michael Drejka a “wanna-be” law enforcement officer and a self-appointed “handicapped parking space monitor.”
Jurors found Drejka guilty of manslaughter in August. Drejka showed no emotion when the judge sentenced him.
Even with good behavior, in Florida, he has to do 80% of that time (sixteen years). See you in the thirties, Asswipe.
Fun bit was the judge commenting on asswipe’s illegal parking job as he roared up to confront.
ReplyDeleteHe may well be an asswipe, but the video I saw showed he drew and shot while being threatened by the black guy who ended up dying.
ReplyDeleteI don't think I could have convicted him based on the video. The treat was real at the time of the shooting.
Having said that, he is white and the dead man is black, so the white dude is at fault....
Jesus H.Fucking Christ B., the menacing black man was backing away from the shooter! The Chicago police called, they’d like you for one of their review boards...
ReplyDeleteGO watch the video before spouting off.
ReplyDeleteDude was over him at the time he drew and fired (pretty much one action). When the guy attacking saw the gun he started to pull back, but by then the shot had happened.
No need for you to be snarly or to be an ass just because we disagree.
Oh, please. This was not some innocent guy who was minding his own business when he was set upon by a street thug. This was a guy who acted as a vigilante and then tried to play the victim in court.
ReplyDeleteHe went looking for trouble. He found it.
B, the jury saw the video, *plus* saw the coroner's reports, the incident reconstruction, heard the testimony of the witnesses, etc. Video is 2 dimensional, you can't judge distances based on video (just ask the idiots who've crashed their Teslas because their Tesla misjudged distances when on "autopilot"). So, uhm, you've seen and heard all of that? You've read the incident reconstruction report which gives the exact measures at the time that the shooting occurred? You've heard the witnesses who testified that the deceased was backing up at the time he was shot?
ReplyDeleteOh wait, no, you haven't, but you know that big black men are scary and thus it's always self defense when you kill big black men. You also know that it's okay to verbally abuse women and never okay for a man to intervene to stop you from verbally abusing a woman because it's a man's right to verbally abuse women. Or something. Whatever. Sheesh.
Defending an abuser of women and a murderer. Is this really the hill you want to die on?
- Badtux the "Really?" Penguin
You gave yourself away by typoing it "treat" B.
ReplyDelete-Doug in Oakland
"I don't think I could have convicted him based on the video"
ReplyDeleteThis does not refer to the circumstances before.
Having said that, The dude who got shot WAS threatening. And WAS a threat at the time of the shot. The rest is not significant as to whether the shot was justified.
As to his behavior before and after the shot, that's another story.
Bullshit, B. You, and your fears are now out there, and it explains much. I suggest you go ask your black friend when he thinks.
ReplyDeleteB doesn’t need evidence or facts, a black man not respecting a white man should incur a death penalty in his world.
ReplyDeleteAnd in B's world, all black men are scary and threatening just because they're black men. Nevermind that he didn't see the incident reconstruction work, interview the witnesses, read the coroner's report, etc., because.... black. Scary!
ReplyDeleteHe sounds like the kinda guy who crosses the street when he sees a couple of black men walking on the sidewalk towards him because, well, black. Eeep!
There's a lot of presumptions of racism in this comment thread without any real evidence.
ReplyDeleteKnock that shit off, people.
B does have a tendency to favor one side:
Delete"it does appear that the dude that ran folks over simply panicked. We don't know one way or another. when a mob surrounds your car and threatens you, folks tend to panic."
And, of course blaming the victims:
"Had those other folks not protested in a violent manner, at a rally they KNEW was gonna be violent, they'd not have been injured or killed“
Wonder if he’ll change his mind in this case as well.