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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — A man was shot and killed outside of a Demonbreun Street nightclub over the weekend and Metro police said two security guards were behind the deadly gunfire.

The guards told police they were defending people nearby, but now the victim’s family is speaking out about the shooting, saying he died protecting his family.

Police said 33-year-old Patrick Charles was inside Vibes nightclub with his sister and his sister’s boyfriend when the sister and the boyfriend reportedly started arguing.
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That’s when Patrick’s mother, Sandra Booker, said the boyfriend became angry because her daughter wouldn’t leave with him.

“He gets in his car. He tries to pull off, so he shoots at my son’s car,” Booker said.

Police have not yet confirmed that the boyfriend fired any shots.

“My son jumped out immediately, and that’s when he fired shots in the air. He was trying to scare him to protect his sister and his fiancee,” Booker said.

Family of armed man shot, killed by security guards outside Demonbreun Street bar want justice (wkrn.com)

And here is the news clip video of the report including images of the incident:

This news is chockful of juicy examples of stuff to avoid, the ease that people have lying for whatever they want and why you never trust the Media.

Let’s begin with location: “A man was shot and killed outside of a Demonbreun Street nightclub.” The inference was that the poor victim was mowed down outside the Vibes club, but there is no parking lot in the club but way down the block (yellow arrow).

The big building seen in the photo is of an apartment building and the small house is a vape shop from where the guards seem to have shot Mr. Charles.

Let me re-quote mom who is “narrating” the video:

“He gets in his car. He tries to pull off, so he shoots at my son’s car,” Booker said.

Police have not yet confirmed that the boyfriend fired any shots.

“My son jumped out immediately, and that’s when he fired shots in the air. He was trying to scare him to protect his sister and his fiancee,” Booker said.

The car passes by the group and body language suggests nobody is surprised or startled at the alleged shot taken by the boyfriend.

But when Charles does go pew-pew, you see the females reacting and directing their attention at the source of the noise.

That was a reckless shooting. Mr. Charles was shooting at nothing but a general direction without the presence of any reasonable threat of death or grave bodily harm. As usual, we have a family member trying to come up with an excuse to justify bad actions by kin. He was pissed off at the Boyfriend-In-Law who possibly said something nasty on his way out and the response was to pull a gun and shoot like it was a bad gang movie.

The video part showing the security guards seems to also suggest they only reacted at the shots fired by Mr. Charles, but what it is shown is too short to be sure. And since this is Nashville and I am still not even remotely familiar with the local jurisprudence, I cannot tell you if their actions were legally justified. They may have been, but indictments are only a Ben Crump away.

I have said many times that Ego will get you killed. Here is a clear example IMHO.
And about the lies? I think David Simon wrote it best.

“Everyone lies. Murderers lie because they have to; witnesses and other participants lie because they think they have to; everyone else lies for the sheer joy of it, and to uphold a general principle that under no circumstances do you provide accurate information to a cop.”
― David Simon, Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets

Teens Hospitalized After Machete Attack During Argument In Lakewood

Authorities are investigating what led up to an apparent machete attack in Lakewood that sent one teen to a trauma unit due to blood loss and left two other teens hospitalized, Lakewood police said Monday.

The teens told police they had gotten out of their vehicle during an argument with people in another vehicle at the intersection of Ocean and New Hampshire avenues, Staffordsmith said. The victims told police they were attacked by two people with what is believed to be a machete during the confrontation at the intersection, he said.

One of the victims suffered substantial blood loss and was flown to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick for treatment, he said.

Big knives make big wound which bleed a lot.

There is no mention of limb loss, but that’s always a possibility with machetes and other big blades.

When it comes to big knives, the best defense is distance.  Stay away from them.

New Jersey sucks for gun rights, but if you live in a free state, always bring a gun to a machete fight and stop the attacks at safe distance from your body.

B.L.U.F. The argument from the mouths of the oldest group dedicated to removing your right to keep and bear arms.

I agree, they do research. It is not clear if that research is good, nor is it clear that the research is unbiased, nor is it clear that they present their research in a balanced manner. I have yet to see a single bit of educational work from Brady that wasn’t about removing firearms from The People.

They do seem to do a whole hell of a lot of legal advocacy. All of it anti-gun, anti-gun rights, anti freedom.

The thing you should take notice of is …and to protect the rights of governmental bodies to…. The government has no rights. You have rights. The states have rights regarding the federal government. The government does not have “rights”. They are allowed certain enumerated powers.

The horrible thing about “commonsense” is that so few people have it. Bubble wrap helps prevent damage. Therefore, it is “commonsense” to wrap everything valuable in bubble wrap? Brady always argues from the point of “just a small inconvenience to get what could be a huge improvement in safety”

The wonderful thing about an opinion running to dozens of pages is that somewhere in all of that verbiage, the opponents of freedom will find a phrase or short grouping of words to turn the entire opinion upside down. Here we find that a small carve out for the NFA being used to justify just about anything, and a short passage in a concurring opinion being used to justify the UHA.

There are subtle changes in wording that are designed to support that swap: whether the provision at issue regulates conduct—id..

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Let me introduce you to Jay Kirell:

Jay here is anti-gun.

He wants you to know that he’s so anti-gun that he wants to kill NRA members with artillery, and thinks that’s a fun way to spend an afternoon.

Give me three mortarmen and a few dozen 120s and we’ll see how much your NRA card means. https://t.co/d0n3tcDC9H

— Jay Kirell (@JasonKirell) June 10, 2023

I’ll be taking out your entire compound in between rounds of spades and complaining about why the scrambled eggs are soggy.

— Jay Kirell (@JasonKirell) June 10, 2023

You think your AR-15 is gonna save you? You think the next civil war is gonna mirror the first one where two sides just line up in a field?

It’s gonna be drones and artillery. You won’t even see what kills you. You’ll die with your pristine $2000 rifle coated in CLP.

— Jay Kirell (@JasonKirell) June 10, 2023

Nothing pisses off gun nuts more than suggestion their obsession is a waste of money. pic.twitter.com/G6v3CnDYfl

— Jay Kirell (@JasonKirell) June 10, 2023

I’ve spent too many posts rebuffing this argument, i.e., “the big bad military will just pound you civilians into paste without breaking a sweat, so your AR-15s are useless.”  I’m not going to do it again.

My point here is that our military seems to have been filled with people whose biggest takeaway from their time in service was how to successfully obliterate American citizens they have a political disagreement with.

You’d think that men who have seen the horror of war wouldn’t want to see it in their back yards, but apparently that is their fantasy.

To rain artillery, bombs, and drone strike on the homes of fellow citizens.

I just can’t imagine the obtuseness of posting your personal life all over social media then calling for the indiscriminate murder of America citizens.  I don’t think he understands just how much reprisals will suck for him.

I was going to post on this, but Miguel beat me to it.

A larger dog grabs a puppy off of a woman's lap while she is eating lunch pic.twitter.com/vlR59F1Qnz

— Crazy Clips (@crazyclipsonly) June 10, 2023

I read his post and have a slightly different opinion.

Pepper spray for humans is notoriously useless on dogs, especially pitbulls.

There are plenty of videos of police spraying pitbulls with pepper spray and it doing nothing to alter their behavior.

Fighting breeds are bred to fight through pain.

I agree that shooting the dog while it is only attacking another dog might get you into legal hot water.

I still believe (disclaimer: IANAL) that a knife in the throat is the best option.

I’m trying to pull my dog out of the jaws of a pitbull?

What happens when that pitbull latches onto my hand?

A knife in the throat will effectively stop the attack while preventing my hands from being the next target for attack.

I would make the argument that it’s not just my dog I’m protecting but myself.

If I do have the draw my gun it’s probably against the owner who’s gonna be passed that I just slit his dog’s throat.