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Arrest Made in South Carolina Planned Parenthood Shooting
Anti-abortion “counselor” charged with assault and battery, possession of a weapon during a violent crime.
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Pro-life wing nut tries to kill a man…
What took so long to charge him, and the charges seem kind of weak considering HE SHOT A GUY.
From everything i saw in the video, the man who was shot initiated a confrontation and then continued to escalate it with threats and assault until he was peppered sprayed and then shot.
Just my judgment from the video, but it looks like Mr Baumgartner had clear reason to believe his life was being threatened.
See, to me it appears that the man who was shot was only talking prior to any violence. He had his hands firmly planted in his pockets as he was talking. Baumgartner may have felt threatened when he used the pepper spray, but I’m not sure that was reasonable.
As far as the use of deadly force, Baumgartner initiated the violence by pepper spraying the victim. One cannot claim self-defense when they initiate the violence. That’s not how stand you ground or self defense works.
He’ll walk if it even goes to trial.
Powers That Be are politicizing the incident. That seems to be a thing in Columbia and Richland County these days, not much unlike the stuff that goes on in the big blue cities up North and in places like Cali. I am not a pro-lifer, but as others have said; the guy who was shot looked to be the aggressor. The defender and defendant tried using non-lethal means to stop the attack (pepper spray). The attack continued and the defender took it to the next level necessary to stop the attack. The attacker FA and FO. That should have been the end of the story, as it originally looked like it was going to be, save for possible assault charges against the attacker.
WTF good is “stand your ground” if some Solicitor or Judge can arbitrarily decide it does not apply in your case?
In Richland County, the Sheriff and Solicitor are similarly playing politics with Mr Chow, a senior citizen who owned a business. Mr Chow wasn’t running drugs, engaging in gang-banging, or armed robbery. He (apparently mistakenly), thought a juvenile in his store had shoplifted an item. As I understand it, Mr Chow and his son followed the suspected shoplifter out of his store. At some point, Mr Chow’s son saw a hangun the suspected juvenile shoplifter was packing and announced it. Mr Chow, fearing for his son’s and his own safety fired, killing the juvenile.
It is tragic that the young man died at that age, but why did he have a gun at Mr Chow’s store? Leon Lott and Solicitor Gipson are playing politics with this because of strong sentiments within their voting block.
There is no good reason that Mr Chow has been jailed for the past two years as he awaits trial, without bond. He is not a criminal and ran a legitimate business. Despite emotional protests to the contrary, Mr Chow presents no significant danger to the community.
I hope that Mr Chow’s attorneys get him a change of venue as it is apparant that he will never get a fair trial in Richland County due to pre-trial publicity and racially charged emotional community sentiment.
As tragic as the young man’s passing was, how long would it have been until he shot someone with the gun he was carrying? Might the victim of a youthful dispute with a firearm have been an innocent bystander, as so often happens in these cases?
It is sad to see police in our area protecting the criminals and persecuting citizens, just as they do in the big blue cities up North and along the West Coast.
“the guy who was shot looked to be the aggressor.”
I disagree. He had his hands in his pocket and was only using his words. Obviously the video circulating doesn’t show much of what happened before, but I didn’t hear the victim threaten violence or take a violent posture as if he was about to attack.
“WTF good is “stand your ground” if some Solicitor or Judge can arbitrarily decide it does not apply in your case?”
Someone has to decide if it applies or not. Otherwise, every shooting or other act of violence would end in “I was defending myself.” That would be abused.