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Gas Station Clerk Shoots Assailant Who Punched Him in the Face…& Loses His Job

Nov. 28, 2012 7:09pm Madeleine Morgenstern

Image source: KHOU-TV

A Texas gas station clerk who shot a man who first punched him in the face has lost his job, the store’s owner said.

Police said the Houston-area Valero station clerk was acting in self-defense when 21-year-old Alexander Calloway and two companions tried to enter the store after hours at 3:30 a.m., KHOU-TV reported. Surveillance video released Tuesday by store owner George Hlaiheo shows Calloway first punching the clerk in the face before the clerk pulls out a gun and opens fire.

Calloway’s companions rushed him to a nearby fire station, after which he was transported to a local hospital where he remains in critical condition, the station reported.

Community members have rallied in front of the store and called for the clerk’s arrest, but Hlaiheo said he stands by his employee’s right to defend himself — except that he no longer works there.

“For the sake of the community, we feel very strongly that he won’t be coming back to work,” Hlaiheo said.

According to KHOU, the same clerk was shot in the leg during a hold-up last year, potentially explaining his armed response.

(h/t Drudge Report)

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bjornskis
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 10:15pm
clerk needs to practice more gun control

you have to double tap the zombie one to the gut the other to the brain bucket

save the tax payers a ton of money

funny none of the protesters said the kid did anything wrong

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- CS Lewis FAN
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 10:28pm
  Yes, the clerk should be sentenced to remedial target practice. There is no reason the attacker should not have a gaping hole the size of a 10 gallon hat through his chest. What was he using, a .22? At least he used incendiaries because the wound was sufficient for the perp’s friends to seek assistance at a fire department. Guess he caught on fire. Apparently he won’t catch hell from his father, who marched in support of his son’s idiotic behavior, thereby demonstrating consistency with his own poor parenting history.
  
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- obamas sin laden
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 12:53am
  None of the protesters said anything about “trayvon’s” errant behavior because they are all mindless obama-voting cretins who couldn’t form a complete sentence to save their valueless lives.
  
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- November29
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 5:30am
  The guy should have been promoted. Read fresh political commentary at: http://smallcraftadvisorychronicles.blogspot.com/
  
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- johnpaulkuchtajr
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 6:36am
  This incident doesn’t meet the usual TX standards for justice under TX law, at least as I perceive it.
  
  When I see a similar incident unfold here in Virginia, I ask myself “What would a Texan do?” The company firing the employee for putting a cap in the attacker just isn’t “Texas-like,” if you know what I mean. Yeah, I know that the store owner has a big oil company, Valero, supplying his gas and I guess that’s what is behind the firing of this employee. Since Valero is worried about their public image, they should hire a Texas-based PR firm which would turn the defense of the store and related assets into a super positive. How?
  
  A Texas-based PR firm would have urged the company to openly reward the employee in a well publicized ceremony at the store, covered by invited TV crews. The increase in revenue from the “law and order” segment of the public would have offset the increases in liability insurance premiums for allowing clerks to be armed. I understand profit and loss; but, the company missed a chance to increase its revenue, enhance its public image, back-up its employees, conform to Texas’ legendary self defense laws and not suffer financially for doing so.
  
  I’ll even supply the main thrust of the PR campaign: “Never fear coming to our stores and falling prey to lawlessness. We don’t allow that at your friendly Valero-affiliated stores.”
  
  I’d speculate that the company is being run by a guy who earned his MBA in CA or NY! Too bad.
  
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- mwhaley
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 8:23am
  This is why the Obama supports have food deserts in their hood that MO has so frequently referred. No business in their right mind would be so stupid enough to open in Obamavilles across this nation. I see separate drinking fountains and bathrooms again. Puzzling how race can be set back 100 years in just 4 years.
  
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- muffythetuffy
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 9:29am
  ANOTHER GEORGE ZIMMERMAN STYLE ASSAULT
  
  Blacks need to be shot when they attack people. I would like to have seen the look on that dudes face when he was shot. This video should be shown in schools all over Texas.
  
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- R0g4tum_2012
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 10:16am
  You guys are disgusting human beings. A punch = A gun shot? Grow up. The punch was wrong, without a doubt, but to say he deserved to be shot for that is archaic and grotesque.
  
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- Joe_The_Patriot
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 10:46am
  Black on black crime is the #1 crime in the “black community” perhaps even then country.. But I never see them out protesting that….
  
  ANYONE who assaults me is getting popped.. I don’t care what color they are.. My kimber does NOT discriminate…
  
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- forthepeople
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 11:05am
  R0G4TUM_2012: ‘punch does not equal a shot ‘ You were not there to make any such judgement. Without the shot , if you heard the news segment with his two friends being armed , it very well could have been Him getting punched then shot ?
  To many arm chair quarterbacks ( judges ) no a days , get a life and quit judging others unless you want judged ?
  
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- VanceUppercut
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 11:16am
  Two men start to argue through a glass door. One of the guys decides to open the door and square up on the other guy like he’s a tough guy. The other guy, (who looks smaller than him) punches him in the face, and his reaction is to pull out a gun and shoot him. I don’t know how you can justify this. Oh wait, it’s a black guy getting shot, I understand now. Carry on, blazers.
  
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- pickupyurcross
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 11:21am
  Rog4Tum 1. If it were 1 on 1 maybe, but there were 3 against this 1 man. He knows if he throws a punch back he’s going to get beat and severely injured, or worse. Take control of the situation before it takes control of you. 2. He was shot last year in a previous robbery attempt; I think if you were in that same situation you may think differently. He doesn’t know if all or none of these men are armed and given what happened last year, he would have a reasonable suspicion that they were armed. He feels his life is threatened, he has the RIGHT to defend himself.
  
  On a side not, anyone else notice the number of Black Panthers in the group marching?
  
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- rogwl
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 11:58am
  WTH… I fail to understand these masses that are incapable of rational thought. The more stories I see the greater the perplexity.
  
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- evilhatemonger
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 12:11pm
  “You guys are disgusting human beings. A punch = A gun shot? Grow up. The punch was wrong, without a doubt, but to say he deserved to be shot for that is archaic and grotesque.”
  Rog4tum_2012 It was an unprovoked attack.
  FYI: a blow to the head is considered deadly force in many jurisdictions. The clerk has every right to respond to deadly force with deadly force.
  I ask you, what would have been the likely outcome without this clerk being armed?
  If the clerk were say a 70 yo woman, what would be your position? Macho BS aside, there is no reason an able bodied male should have to put up with more unprovoked deadly force than anyone else.
  Too bad the perp is still on this side of the dirt.
  
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- R0g4tum_2012
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 1:12pm
  All of those comments are good and well (I guess). You are all forgetting that he, the clerk, opened the door to the threat. That changes the game quite a bit (if not, entirely). Also, a punch, once again, does not equate to a shot from a firearm. Please present a cogent argument of how getting punched in the face justifies pulling, and subsequently, using a firearm on said individual.
  
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- Beepster
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 2:24pm
  johnpaul, Don’t let this fool you one bit. The manager happens to be an Ahab da Arab. I surely do hope the clerk was fired and didn’t quit the job. If so, he has recourse, and Valero will pay thru the nose for letting the manager try to get away with this. Don’t blame Valero, just blame the manager. He’s as guilty of a crime as the jerk getting shot.
  
  AND, I agree, he desperately needs some range time to learn how to shoot. Even a .22 is deadly to the head, which is where one of the bullets should have gone.
  
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- IWISHIWASINTEXAS
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 2:44pm
  ROG: Who cares if he opened the door!?! If some guy is at your door and you open it to him and he attacks you without provocation, you have every damn right to shoot him. (We all know you wont, you’d be the one whimpering on the ground getting your teeth knocked in.) This clerk had been shot before and was probably on edge. This punk attacked him. Period. He has a right to defend himself in any way he can! Why risk a fist fight with some piece of s*** and his two buddies when you can react quickly and decisively and end the threat? I guarantee you that this kid will think twice the next time he decides to punch someone. Kudos to the clerk for defending himself. The punk got what he deserved for assaulting someone.
  
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- Palrak
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 2:54pm
  That poor clerk should not have been fired!
  
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- Liberty1947
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 3:41pm
  VanceUppercut: Maybe if the poor black man was home taking care of jis kids instead of committing crimes, he would have not been shot!
  
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- sizzlinsexybeckster
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 7:46am
  When being assaulted the best thing to do is to pull out your gun and put the terrorist in their place before they kill you. Salutes to the gunman who only defended himself.
  
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- 2parrotsandadog
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 9:44am
  How stupid does a person need to be to punch someone holding a gun?
  
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- bobball
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 1:27pm
  I don’t think he should have shot him. I think he should have laughed at him after that punch and said ‘is that all you got?” He actually should not have opened the door but called the police. Unknown what was said as well, however I don’t think he should get into trouble either. The kid assaulted him on private property and is at fault for the violence that followed.
  
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Oldmantex
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 10:14pm
Hey quanel ten, you want the merchants to respect you? Then don’t assault them at three am while they are holding a gun, and especially if you hit like a 10 year old girl. That’s a good start. You should be holding a class for all those people walking next to you on how NOT to assault someone at 3 am. That would be a great start……But I know it wont help you pay for that house you live in by the 5th ward, oh wait, that’s right you live in the woodlands with all the rich white folk LOL. Such a hack.

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- DADDYWOREAWHITEHAT
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 10:53pm
  That is interesting. He came to TX supposedly to save his brothers but he doesn’t live in the crime ridden 5th wars that Sheila Jackson lee gets her support from. They are such hypocrites! It is beyond the pale!
  
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- KIWL-DA-WABBIT
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 3:13am
  Those black protesters P I S S me off! Crying foul when it is that black punk asses own evil crap that caused the shooting. It’s like beating the hell out of someone and then wanting them arrested because their face bruised your knuckles. To hell with them all.
  
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Oldmantex
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 10:08pm
That kid was a moron!!! The guy had the gun in his hand when he opened the door. If you are stupid enough to throw a punch at a guy standing on his property with a gun, then maybe your gene pool needs to be removed from society.

Notice that his punch didn’t even rattle the clerk, right then the kid should have double timed it out of there, he was out matched in every way imaginable.

BTW to KHOU, these people don’t want justice and so don’t claim its just a perspective. They want to run around doing as they please, and the rest of America to lay down and take it. ANY sensible person can look at this video and see the kid was a moron and got exactly what he wanted. He wanted a fight, but forgot to bring his gun.

I wonder what his father would do if someone came to his house threatening him and yelling at him on his property, after being shot months earlier. Would he stay inside, would he pull a gun? You bet your a zz he would and then he would call it justice…….absolutely shameful.

They should be chanting “What do we want? HAND OUTS!! When do we want it?? NOW”

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- burnteye86
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 1:28am
  The only people they ever demand justice for are blacks. They’re a bunch of racists and every one knows it, even if they don’t say it.
  
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- Independent4233
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 2:46am
  Oldmantex
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 10:08pm
  “That kid was a moron!!! The guy had the gun in his hand when he opened the door. If you are stupid enough to throw a punch at a guy standing on his property with a gun, then maybe your gene pool needs to be removed from society.”
  
  You’re right on that score.
  
  Since the perp’s homeboys were standing near him the clerk apparently was well aware of black mob tactics where they usually always jump right in to beat a victim if he hit back instead of shooting.
  
  I’m a little surprised they didn’t all jump on him and start pounding away to begin with, instead of just one of them striking out, which is what they usually do.
  
  The others likely didn’t do so, because they were probably afraid of the gun, unlike the ****** who got shot.
  
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- KIWL-DA-WABBIT
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 3:16am
  The black kid thought he was going to get an easy sucker punch knock out, but the clerk has a steal jaw.
  
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- Ricardvs
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 4:47pm
  That’s what it is really about, ‘Financial justice’
  Pay him for his stupid actions.
  Me thinks he was up to no good and got caught…
  Think there was more there than the press is letting on to.
  The clerk should have been fired for opening the door, and not calling the police.
  SuperBrutha should be chastised by his own for hitting like a little girl.
  And jailed for disturbing the peace.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 7:48pm
  At which gas station convenience store would you feel safer at? One where they laid down for a robber every time one came in or a store that had sent a couple robbers to the morgue or hospital?
  
  I would feel safer at the latter. Robbers would see it as a hard target & opt to hold up a different station. that is one I am not at & don’t patronize!
  
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Gary_K
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 10:04pm
Get ready people, it will get much worse before it gets better.

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texan722000
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 10:00pm
One loser down, you give **** you get **** back. Just a NWA who got what was coming to him. I wonder if they used an Obama Free Phone to call 911.

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COFemale
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 9:58pm
Oh the horror a white guys shoots a black guy. Must be in Shelia Jackson Lee’s district. Black thugs can do no wrong. He just plugged the guy in the face, but no reason to shoot him. It is 3 am. The black guy had no business being their.

Think it wrong he was fired. So we can no longer defend ourselves and must take what is coming to us. Bad move on the owner.

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cclevel
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 9:47pm
Did anyone noticed what appeared to be a uniform member of the Black Panthers in the march and inside the store?

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garbagecanlogic
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 9:43pm
What kind of mentally incompetent idiot smacks someone in the face who is plainly standing there with a gun in his hand. The maggt deserved to be shot according to the facts.

Praise Be To Obama. Psalm 109:8

The U.S. Out Of The U.N.
The U.N. Out Of The U.S.

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- fishb8
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 10:08am
  You right, what a dip ****.
  
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mikenleeds
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 9:30pm
if that animal punched me in the face i d dropped him so fast it would make his head spin ,
i think every law bidden decent citizen should carry a gun

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- banjarmon
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 9:55pm
  The daddy should have raised his shot kid with morals, but he used stupidity!
  
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- DadRocked
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 7:54am
  Bring:
  KNIFE to a GUN FIGHT = Not a good idea
  FIST to a GUN FIGHT = Nope still not a good idea
  Racism into a self protection fight = good idea?
  I Say Not !
  
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scrudge
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 9:17pm
Ah Yes… every one should cary a weapon…. I’LL bet the dark one dosn’t know who his daddy is.. his mamma dosn’t either.. welcome to welfare… hay oBOZO that could of been your dark son

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yougottabekidding
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 9:15pm
Stupid move on the clerks behalf to open the door, that being said, once he was assaulted the game changed!
Boss For the sake of the community he won’t be coming back. Just what does that mean?
Notice the uniformed thugs?

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- DADDYWOREAWHITEHAT
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 8:05am
  The store clerk likely has been re-assigned to another convenience store. Don’t worry too much about his job. The kids family called quanell X to come demand something from the store even though the kid was the causing the trouble @ 3am banging on the storefront until the clerk met him outside. They’re just trying to change the narrative away from the kid was the problem so they can get a settlement out of Valero. Follow the money.
  
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Skee
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 9:13pm
Shoot him, then sue him for his most prized and only posession, his bike.

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- IWISHIWASINTEXAS
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 2:54pm
  Adding insult to near fatal injury? I like it :)
  
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48Straights
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 9:07pm
WOW, what cutting edge national news going on here. I wonder what happened in Washington today.

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- Mr. Smarty
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 3:44pm
  It’s going to be huge national news when Obama & Company, along with the media and the Al Sharpton/Quannel X types stir up the hood rats and cause a coast to coast race war.
  
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Talmid of Yeshua
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 9:06pm
“He didn’t have to hit my son.”? Really? Your son didn’t have to be a low-life, spear chucking, welfare-collecting savage either. His son is lucky he didn’t hit me… he’d be in the morgue.

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- jungle J
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 9:12pm
  your speech proves that you are a progressive operative stirring up trouble.
  
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- Talmid of Yeshua
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 9:35pm
  I’m no “progressive” as you like to call them. I prefer to call them red-diaper doper babies myself. I just call it like I see it. I’m as God-fearing, red-blooded, freedom-lovin’ as they come.
  
  I’m just not some pansy, metrosexual RHINO who dices my words. I say what I mean, and I do what I say.
  
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- NOTMOHAMMED
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 4:04am
  With a handle like jungle j, I wonder what your heritage is? Talmid told it like it is, yet you subtly infer that he’s a racist. Judging by the video, the trouble pot’s been stirred already and seasoned with the truth. Eat your fill.
  
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- mecanic
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 12:59pm
  actually, jungle j, you sound like a TROLL.
  
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- Mr. Smarty
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 3:53pm
  To Jungle J: Maybe he is a plant but truth is truth. There are many people out here who are fed up with using guarded language.
  
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Capt_Gregg
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 9:06pm
I think Alexander Calloway qualifies for at least an honorable mention at darwinawards.com. Gas station attendants and clerks in privately owned convenience stores are often armed, and in states like Texas, one can substitute “usually” for “often.” Should Calloway’s wound prove mortal, his death should be ruled a suicide. Anyone dumb enough to assault one needs to be removed from the gene pool.

What I got from the video was that the clerk was let go because the owner was afraid for his (the clerk’s) safety if he continued to work in that neighborhood, and not because the owner disapproved of the shooting. I would hope that the owner helps the clerk find new employment — hopefully at a gun shop.

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- pschlentz
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 1:30am
  I think you’re exactly right CAPT_GREGG…
  
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Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 9:06pm
Thugs play stupid games; They win stupid prizes. Don’t want to be shot, don’t throw punches.

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- Totally Domestic
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 11:35pm
  Agree!
  
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- MetalPatriot
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 4:03am
  Even though you’re an officer, I have to say I’m glad the guy got shot. I know how rough, strict, numerous, & twisted the law is, however many of us are tired of the bad guys ruling the day. It’s becoming a tougher line to tow to be level headed and show restraint.
  
  I’m not calling you out for a public response, just wanted to give you this civilians’ perspective. Thank you for YOUR service. It takes a special person to deal with the harsh realities of “civil” society.
  
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Trail_Jumper
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 9:01pm
Yes, protestors protesting for their right to punch store clerks in the face at 3:30 a.m. Unbelievable.

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cemerius
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 8:54pm
BS! YOU should have TAUGHT your son to have manners and respect respect respect!!! Justice is the fact that your thug son got shot!!!!

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cactusjoe
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 8:35pm
I grantee this kid wont hit anyone again. I really dont know what there protesting ?

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katy
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 8:34pm
The black community is eventually going to use up all its credibility with this crap and lose the fight in the end.

You can’t go around assaulting people and not expect to get shot or whatever means of self defense one chooses to use.
The cry of racism is no longer working!

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- jungle J
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 9:15pm
  what credibility? you speak like a fool. Yo mean the creible jackson or sharpton or the other race baiters?
  
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Oneirishman
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 8:33pm
Teaching respect one bullet at a time.

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- liljoe62
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 11:08pm
  Love your post! Direct, and to the point! Great!
  
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- mecanic
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 12:56pm
  ABSOLUTLY, my barretta does NOT discriminate. you attack me or my family, i will SHOOT YOU and not lose one minute of sleep over it.grow up and be RESPONSIBLE and you won’t get SHOT.
  
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BornGreen
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 8:28pm
I love it! THey want Justice! LOL They want justice so things like this wont happen again then why dont these fine city folks think befoe they do something stupid and maybe they wont get a bullet! Please come to my house and try to get in uninvited. you’ll end up the same way without any questions asked!! DO IT!

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progressiveslayer
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 8:22pm
The criminals in the community can’t have a clerk fighting back it’s bad for the criminal so they want the clerk arrested! Only in the ‘fundamentally transformed Amerika’.

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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 8:32pm
  The punks in critical condition,that’s a shame he should be room temperature.
  
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- readytorockanroll
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 8:01pm
  Ya no fighting back…Did you notice all the protesters….. Looked like they got out of their ghettos to protest against the clerk who just defended himself….. The clerk should have popped the punk in the head……..
  
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oldguy49
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 8:19pm
b.s.

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blaaaaackwoman
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 8:16pm
Get back in your cages apes.

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- Halloween
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 8:58pm
  Let them work in the cotton fields and in our kitchens!
  
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- jungle J
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 9:16pm
  halloween is a progressive operative.
  
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- Totally Domestic
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 11:38pm
  Are u talking about the protesters and the thugs?
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 7:52pm
  jungle J
  
  Clearly Halloween is a demented person without a life or a paid troll.
  
  As someone with a very nonwhite spouse, I am always on guard for racism. But mostly what I would like to do is get in the face of someone like Halloween & cow them.
  
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