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It´s not your personal property, it´s called public property.
I understand but does it justify self-justice?
What you call vandals, could be the refugees in my country.
originally posted by: MarioOnTheFly
a reply to: verschickter
It´s not your personal property, it´s called public property.
but everything public...is created/errected by money taken from private citizens. In essence..it is private property..private by all citizens that pay taxes.
And you know what...I'm almost assured that these vandals...dont pay taxes. Probably their parents do.
It´s not your personal property, it´s called public property.
originally posted by: theantediluvian
a reply to: 727Sky
Thanks for the fake news.
Glad you're all frothing at the mouth of the idea of murdering people over statues erected by completely white local and state governments in public spaces at a time when these same politicians were trying to preserve segregation and oppressive laws to keep subjugated, former slaves and their descendants.
But alas, you cannot just shoot vandals of statues on public property. Not even in Texas.
KHOU
We turned to KHOU legal analyst Gerald Treece for answers.
"That's just not the law," said Treece. The Texas Penal Code allows for the use of deadly force when protecting people's private property.
"I can used deadly force against you if you're using deadly force or if there's a fear of deadly force against me," said Treece. But statues in public parks aren't private property.
"If the question in a classroom came up, 'Professor, can I shoot someone at night putting magic marker on a statue?', I would say no, a thousand times no," said Treece.
Texas Penal Code 9.43 clearly states the private property being protected with deadly force needs to be "tangible and moveable." A statue doesn't meet that qualification either.
"It's not tangible, moveable property, owned by anybody, but the government," said Treece.
You can’t shoot Confederate statue vandals, Granbury police warn
GRANBURY
Online chatter about a Confederate statue in Granbury led police to issue a warning on its Facebook page this week: You can’t shoot people for vandalizing a statue, in particular the one of Confederate Gen. H.B. Granbury on the lawn of the Hood County Courthouse.
The warning came as residents have debated whether the statue should remain standing in wake of the deadly protest over a Confederate monument in Charlottesville, Va.
At some point during the online discussion, “a person claiming to be a police officer” posted inaccurate information about a state law that allows the use of deadly force to stop another person from committing criminal mischief, Granbury police posted on Facebook on Monday night.
Now let's all go to a thread about how evil liberals want to destroy everything as you all get excited at the prospect of murdering your countrymen over stupid statues that shouldn't be there anyway. That's the moral high ground?
If I came home late at night and found a bunch of people armed with things capable of destroying something as solid as a statue wrecking my property and I ordered them to leave or face the risk of being shot and they refused to comply, I would be perfectly within my legal right to use force to neutralize the clear and present threat to both my property and any living thing that happened to be on it. It's my personal property, I'm outnumbered by people with the means to harm me and others in the vicinity, and as long as I don't just shoot without warning and don't give them opportunity to comply with that warning or shoot anyone in the back, I have the right to defend my property under the law.
This is about people potentially destroying the personal property of Texas citizens, and how we aren't going to allow that to happen. I am a Texan, and it's my personal property, too.
originally posted by: MotherMayEye
a reply to: theantediluvian
This is disturbing disinfo to have been spread by a police officer.
I wonder what his motivation really was.
Agent provocateur? It's as likely as any other reason, IMO.
originally posted by: ManFromEurope
a reply to: UKTruth
I think I saw you stepping on the lawn - forbidden! *shakes with uncontrollable anger*
I SHOOT YOU NOW!
Yes, this whole thread is ridiculous. Who would *kill* a person for vandalism?! If you think that would be a good move, you have some serious selfcontrol-problems..