A black teen ran out with a $2 beer. Then a Tennessee store clerk followed him and shot him dead

[Faun]

I wouldn't kill someone. I would report it to the police and turn over any surveillance video available to identify the thief. The murderer was in no danger. The thief had left the store and the owner ran out after him and chased him down to shoot him. That's murder for which a jury found him guilty. He's destroyed two families and he's now facing a maximum penalty of 60 years in prison.

Wrong as always
The thief destroyed two families

Imbecile. The thief did not make the murderer shoot him.

Yeah?
And the guy protecting his business didnt make the shithead steal beer.

So? I didn't say he did.

So you admit your first statement is invalid.

Oh? How so?

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

A jury found a grocery clerk guilty of killing a 17-year-old boy who ran out of the store with a beer he didn't pay for in Memphis, Tennessee, in a case that had sparked protests, authorities said.

Anwar Ghazali was convicted of second-degree murder after a four-day trial, Shelby County District Attorney General Amy Weirich said Friday.

"This defendant took it upon himself to be the judge and jury and the executioner over a $2 beer," prosecutor Lora Fowler said, according to CNN affiliate WMC.

The shooting happened in March 2018, after Dorian Harris walked out of the Top Stop Shop with a beer without paying, Weirich said.

Security video of the incident played in court shows that Ghazali, while behind the counter dealing with another customer, pulled out a handgun and pointed it at Harris. He then ran outside to follow the teen and fired several times.

Afterward, he returned to the store and told a witness, "I think I shot him." He did not call the police, and neither did any other customer inside the store, WMC reported.

Harris was shot at least three times and was left to bleed out, Fowler said. His body was found two days later in a yard near the store with gunshots in the back of his thigh, Weirich said.

Ghazali's defense attorney, Blake Ballin, told CNN in an email that Ghazali maintains he acted recklessly that night but his intention was never to harm Harris.

He said they were pleased that the jury rejected the prosecution's argument that this was a calculated and premeditated murder motivated by the theft of a beer. That would have come with a potential life sentence.

Ghazali is expected to be sentenced on September 23.

Read more at msn.com

2 lessons learned here...Dorian will never steal another beer, nor will he ever taste a cold one again.....2nd lesson, I have found a new respect for the hard working Muslim man that tried to do the RIGHT THING and was fucked by the system....Years ago Anwar would have been given the citizen of the month award ..... what a shame!

And your point is ... what ... ? stealing a beer should result in a death penalty?

If and only if a black teenager steals a beer; isn't that a capital crime in most Red States?

There are actually freaks here defending murder. <smh>

The guy should have called the cops after shooting the low life no doubt.
I look at it like this,you know damn good and well this wasnt an isolated incident.
The guy reached his breaking point and the soon to be Harvard grad was the unlucky one who broke the camel's back.

Wrong. He should not have shot him at all. He was in zero danger. Had he called police, there's a chance they would have found the teen alive and he'd have faced attempted murder charges instead of 2nd degree murder.

His livelihood was most certainly in danger.
This kinda crap is why we have food deserts in black communities that you leftist like to complain about.
Stop robbing em blind and they wont leave. You dumbfucks are the ghettos worst enemy.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

The most peaceful expected result is no businesses at all in black and Hispanic neighborhoods and dynamic security elsewhere.

I can understand not wanting to burden the prison system with beer thieves. Use corporal punishment. Strap that beer thief up stripped to the waist and give him 20 lashes. If he does it again, 30 lashes. There won't be a third time.

 

[miketx]

He'll be out in 7 years. Looking for payback.

You think so ? lol he's dead meat in prison Black guys looking to kill his ass

As much as you and I interact on this forum, you don't know that I worked in a prison for along time? Your remark is total crap. Never gonna happen unless the guy wants to risk his life. We'll just list this as another one of your remarks that is completely devoid of reality.

Time will tell I believe he's in big trouble in prison

And what do you base your opinion on? I base mine on being a corrections officer for a long time. Actually seeing people like this shooter and how they are treated and how they are protected.

How are child molesters treated in jail ,,,and I didn't know you were a corrections officer tough job ,,BTW How was epstein protected?

In general child molesters are isolated from the general population unless they decline it. How would I have any idea what happened to Epstein? All I can say is, after being the officer on a suicide watch several times, if you do your job the prisoner can't kill himself. We don't know and will never know what happened.

 

[Carl in Michigan]

And your point is ... what ... ? stealing a beer should result in a death penalty?

If and only if a black teenager steals a beer; isn't that a capital crime in most Red States?

There are actually freaks here defending murder. <smh>

The guy should have called the cops after shooting the low life no doubt.
I look at it like this,you know damn good and well this wasnt an isolated incident.
The guy reached his breaking point and the soon to be Harvard grad was the unlucky one who broke the camel's back.

Wrong. He should not have shot him at all. He was in zero danger. Had he called police, there's a chance they would have found the teen alive and he'd have faced attempted murder charges instead of 2nd degree murder.

His livelihood was most certainly in danger.
This kinda crap is why we have food deserts in black communities that you leftist like to complain about.
Stop robbing em blind and they wont leave. You dumbfucks are the ghettos worst enemy.

These stores operate on a very slim profit margin. Shoplifters will destroy the business.

 

[WEATHER53]

If you are repeatedly robbed how do you react when you catch a thief red-handed and they run? I don't know how I would react maybe you should hold off judgment and put yourself in his place.

I wouldn't kill someone. I would report it to the police and turn over any surveillance video available to identify the thief. The murderer was in no danger. The thief had left the store and the owner ran out after him and chased him down to shoot him. That's murder for which a jury found him guilty. He's destroyed two families and he's now facing a maximum penalty of 60 years in prison.

He'll be out in 7 years. Looking for payback.

You think so ? lol he's dead meat in prison Black guys looking to kill his ass

As much as you and I interact on this forum, you don't know that I worked in a prison for along time? Your remark is total crap. Never gonna happen unless the guy wants to risk his life. We'll just list this as another one of your remarks that is completely devoid of reality.

Time will tell I believe he's in big trouble in prison

We know you hope so you Muslim racist.

 

[WEATHER53]

Here is a thought

Value human life

Here's a thought.
Respect another mans right to make an honest living.

Yes but can we let the punishment fit the crime?

Here's the thing....
You can bet the farm that this wasnt the first time.
How many times had he called the cops over shoplifting only to have them tell him there was nothing they could do?
You can only push a man so far before he goes off.

And now he goes off to prison for murder. See how that works?

Yep, lots of hassle avoided if the thief didn’t steal.

Robberies have consequence, often real bad, oh my, how unfair to be held responsible cry libs.

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

When Republicans award needy billionaires trillions in tax cuts, they are stealing from America. That kind of stealing is OK.

So when shit fuck liberals sit on their lazy asses, smoking dope and bitching and moaning about how they have to live off welfare, that isnt stealing from America? But that isnt enough, those shit fucks send their kid out to steal a 2 dollar Schlitz but hey, this is America, right?

 

[miketx]

Here is a thought.

Do not steal.

Imagine if the guy just didn’t steal the beer?

This could all have been avoided.

Stealing is immoral and illegal. Don’t do it.

Here is a thought

Value human life

Here's a thought.
Respect another mans right to make an honest living.

Yes but can we let the punishment fit the crime?

Here's the thing....
You can bet the farm that this wasnt the first time.
How many times had he called the cops over shoplifting only to have them tell him there was nothing they could do?
You can only push a man so far before he goes off.

And now he goes off to prison for murder. See how that works?

He hasn't gone off anywhere yet.

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

A black teen ran out with a $2 beer. Then a Tennessee store clerk followed him and shot him dead

A jury found a grocery clerk guilty of killing a 17-year-old boy who ran out of the store with a beer he didn't pay for in Memphis, Tennessee, in a case that had sparked protests, authorities said.

I am sick and tired of people thinking that they can do whatever they want to illegally, and have no repercussions for their actions. The parents of the teen need to be slapped upside their heads for allowing their idiot son to go and rob a convenience store especially when it is alcohol the teen isnt supposed to take. I am just sorry that the clerk has now got to face the full force of the Democrat Party, because when an illegal shoots a young girl who dies in her fathers arms, the illegal is let go, this clerk will be made an example of. Fuck you all liberals, I hate your stinking guts.

We don't murder people over a $2 beer. If Harris had come at him in a threatening manner that would be a different story, but he didn't. Ghazali chased him out of the store and gunned him down. He was wrong.

Security video of the incident played in court shows that Ghazali, while behind the counter dealing with another customer, pulled out a handgun and pointed it at Harris. He then ran outside to follow the teen and fired several times.

That is just plain murder.

Yep, it's murder and the clerk needs to go to prison for that, however, just as we are told to avoid road rage incidents in our cars, you know, like don't flip people off because you don't know who they are and what they might do. The same warning needs to go out to kids not to steal. When your a teenager, life seems like a joke and you don't realize the danger you put yourself in. You also don't realize that your actions hurt people in more ways than one. In the kids mind, what he was doing was nothing big. My guess is the clerk flipped because this was happening to him a lot. While still not justified, to me in certain cases its quite understandable why a clerk would run outside and fire a few shots. Kids who want to go out and shoplift need to get it through their heads that the world around them is not always kind and understanding, there are damaged and angry people out there who have had enough with life putting them down and they will defend themselves. Steal at your own risk, or dont steal at all.

Do you know that a bunch of people dressed like ISIS beat the shit out of a gay reporter and still no one has been jailed? So we now have a justice system that is totally blind to one side. Vigilante is going to rear its face, and you lefties arent going to like it.

 

[pknopp]

Here's a thought.
Respect another mans right to make an honest living.

Yes but can we let the punishment fit the crime?

Here's the thing....
You can bet the farm that this wasnt the first time.
How many times had he called the cops over shoplifting only to have them tell him there was nothing they could do?
You can only push a man so far before he goes off.

And now he goes off to prison for murder. See how that works?

Yep, lots of hassle avoided if the thief didn’t steal.

Robberies have consequence, often real bad, oh my, how unfair to be held responsible cry libs.

Breaking our laws do have consequences for some. The shop owner was also held to the consequences of our laws. I still hate the idea that only some are held responsible for breaking our laws, but if you are for enforcing our laws, you have also support what happened to the shop owner.

 

[Faun]

Here is a thought

Value human life

Here's a thought.
Respect another mans right to make an honest living.

Yes but can we let the punishment fit the crime?

Here's the thing....
You can bet the farm that this wasnt the first time.
How many times had he called the cops over shoplifting only to have them tell him there was nothing they could do?
You can only push a man so far before he goes off.

And now he goes off to prison for murder. See how that works?

He hasn't gone off anywhere yet.

Sure he has. He was taken to jail and is now awaiting sentencing next month. You claim to have worked for the criminal justice system but you don't know how these things work?

 

[miketx]

Here's a thought.
Respect another mans right to make an honest living.

Yes but can we let the punishment fit the crime?

Here's the thing....
You can bet the farm that this wasnt the first time.
How many times had he called the cops over shoplifting only to have them tell him there was nothing they could do?
You can only push a man so far before he goes off.

And now he goes off to prison for murder. See how that works?

He hasn't gone off anywhere yet.

Sure he has. He was taken to jail and is now awaiting sentencing next month. You claim to have worked for the criminal justice system but you don't know how these things work?

As I said, he hasn't gone anywhere yet. He's not in prison yet. What part of that can't you comprehend? His lawyer could even file an appeal.

 

[Faun]

Yes but can we let the punishment fit the crime?

Here's the thing....
You can bet the farm that this wasnt the first time.
How many times had he called the cops over shoplifting only to have them tell him there was nothing they could do?
You can only push a man so far before he goes off.

And now he goes off to prison for murder. See how that works?

He hasn't gone off anywhere yet.

Sure he has. He was taken to jail and is now awaiting sentencing next month. You claim to have worked for the criminal justice system but you don't know how these things work?

As I said, he hasn't gone anywhere yet. He's not in prison yet. What part of that can't you comprehend? His lawyer could even file an appeal.

He's in jail. That's where he's been taken off to until sentencing.

 

[miketx]

Here's the thing....
You can bet the farm that this wasnt the first time.
How many times had he called the cops over shoplifting only to have them tell him there was nothing they could do?
You can only push a man so far before he goes off.

And now he goes off to prison for murder. See how that works?

He hasn't gone off anywhere yet.

Sure he has. He was taken to jail and is now awaiting sentencing next month. You claim to have worked for the criminal justice system but you don't know how these things work?

As I said, he hasn't gone anywhere yet. He's not in prison yet. What part of that can't you comprehend? His lawyer could even file an appeal.

He's in jail. That's where he's been taken off to until sentencing.

Where else would they take him? lol

 

[leftwinger]

Here is a thought.

Do not steal.

Imagine if the guy just didn’t steal the beer?

This could all have been avoided.

Stealing is immoral and illegal. Don’t do it.

Here is a thought

Value human life

Here's a thought.
Respect another mans right to make an honest living.

Yes but can we let the punishment fit the crime?

Punishments do fit the crime when there is much time to deliberate. When it happens on the spot then that standard cannot be applied.

We had the time to contemplate the crimes of Wall Street bankers and decided to allow them all walk free with their millions in stolen money.

Yeah Obammy should have done something about that as promised. Instead Marthas' Vineyard with them to laugh at your naivity.

 

[Faun]

And now he goes off to prison for murder. See how that works?

He hasn't gone off anywhere yet.

Sure he has. He was taken to jail and is now awaiting sentencing next month. You claim to have worked for the criminal justice system but you don't know how these things work?

As I said, he hasn't gone anywhere yet. He's not in prison yet. What part of that can't you comprehend? His lawyer could even file an appeal.

He's in jail. That's where he's been taken off to until sentencing.

Where else would they take him? lol

Great, so we're in agreement he's gone somewhere.

 

[leftwinger]

If you are repeatedly robbed how do you react when you catch a thief red-handed and they run? I don't know how I would react maybe you should hold off judgment and put yourself in his place.

I wouldn't kill someone. I would report it to the police and turn over any surveillance video available to identify the thief. The murderer was in no danger. The thief had left the store and the owner ran out after him and chased him down to shoot him. That's murder for which a jury found him guilty. He's destroyed two families and he's now facing a maximum penalty of 60 years in prison.

He'll be out in 7 years. Looking for payback.

You think so ? lol he's dead meat in prison Black guys looking to kill his ass

As much as you and I interact on this forum, you don't know that I worked in a prison for along time? Your remark is total crap. Never gonna happen unless the guy wants to risk his life. We'll just list this as another one of your remarks that is completely devoid of reality.

Time will tell I believe he's in big trouble in prison

Eddie, he will be out on bail. Trial two years out. By that time...probation for cleaning up some thugs. Cant jail a muslim with a business.

 

[leftwinger]

If and only if a black teenager steals a beer; isn't that a capital crime in most Red States?

There are actually freaks here defending murder. <smh>

The guy should have called the cops after shooting the low life no doubt.
I look at it like this,you know damn good and well this wasnt an isolated incident.
The guy reached his breaking point and the soon to be Harvard grad was the unlucky one who broke the camel's back.

Wrong. He should not have shot him at all. He was in zero danger. Had he called police, there's a chance they would have found the teen alive and he'd have faced attempted murder charges instead of 2nd degree murder.

His livelihood was most certainly in danger.
This kinda crap is why we have food deserts in black communities that you leftist like to complain about.
Stop robbing em blind and they wont leave. You dumbfucks are the ghettos worst enemy.

These stores operate on a very slim profit margin. Shoplifters will destroy the business.

We pay fot it in raised prices. Same for health care.

 

[ColonelAngus]

Yes but can we let the punishment fit the crime?

Here's the thing....
You can bet the farm that this wasnt the first time.
How many times had he called the cops over shoplifting only to have them tell him there was nothing they could do?
You can only push a man so far before he goes off.

And now he goes off to prison for murder. See how that works?

Yep, lots of hassle avoided if the thief didn’t steal.

Robberies have consequence, often real bad, oh my, how unfair to be held responsible cry libs.

Breaking our laws do have consequences for some. The shop owner was also held to the consequences of our laws. I still hate the idea that only some are held responsible for breaking our laws, but if you are for enforcing our laws, you have also support what happened to the shop owner.

Of course.

Laws are laws.

I think the point of most conservatives in this thread is don’t fucking steal in the first place and then you don’t have to worry about the shop owner killing you for stealing.