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Video released showing white Rochester Hills man shooting at black teen
So much idiocy here.
He could have lied that the camera didn't capture some threatening behavior when he answered the door (it's pretty clearly not the case), but firing at the back of an unarmed kid who presented at your front door and who has already turned tail and run away off your property at top speed is not a good shot, regardless of his behavior.
Of course BLM is making hay over this case, notwithstanding that the guy was promptly charged and facing a possible life sentence for his reckless idiocy.
Zeigler is quoted as saying he was "not going to take it" any more. Probably he had been robbed by other black kids. He thought this one intended to rob him. Regardless, he took an entirely wrong approach to "protecting" his homestead, and is going to pay for his own paranoia.
Had there been an actual dangerous burglar, clearly there was no impediment to them entering the house and Zeigler would not have been prepared to judge and stop the threat. The very definition of an irresponsible gun owner.
So much idiocy here.
- Zeigler lives in Detroit, has a front door that opens to the street; no locked gate/razor wire fence/barking dogs, just a sidewalk from the road.
- Unarmed lost schoolkid with a backpack knocks on his door to ask directions.
- Zeigler opens the door displaying his shotgun.
- Kid hightails it.
- Zeigler fires at fleeing kid.
- Thankfully for Zeigler, his aim is terrible, he misses entirely, sparing him a first-degree murder charge.
- Entire exchange is caught on Zeigler's own security camera, sealing his fate.
He could have lied that the camera didn't capture some threatening behavior when he answered the door (it's pretty clearly not the case), but firing at the back of an unarmed kid who presented at your front door and who has already turned tail and run away off your property at top speed is not a good shot, regardless of his behavior.
Of course BLM is making hay over this case, notwithstanding that the guy was promptly charged and facing a possible life sentence for his reckless idiocy.
Zeigler is quoted as saying he was "not going to take it" any more. Probably he had been robbed by other black kids. He thought this one intended to rob him. Regardless, he took an entirely wrong approach to "protecting" his homestead, and is going to pay for his own paranoia.
Had there been an actual dangerous burglar, clearly there was no impediment to them entering the house and Zeigler would not have been prepared to judge and stop the threat. The very definition of an irresponsible gun owner.
