/NSFW/Homeless Man In St. Louis Shot Dead After Confrontation With Lunatic

[NinoBrown]

Another fatherless loser....lock him up for 100 years...

 

[Studious one]

It’s all in the eyes, Chico. You can see the lunacy in his eyes on the mug shot.

 

[IGSaint12]

Repeat offenders are responsible for a majority of the crimes in the US. We have to create laws to address this. I see no one doing this on either side of the political spectrum.

 

[Absolut]

Repeat offenders are responsible for a majority of the crimes in the US. We have to create laws to address this. I see no one doing this on either side of the political spectrum.

The laws are there. Crime is illegal. It’s up to prosecutors and the courts to enforce them properly for violent criminals. These bozos routinely let the public down, and go soft on violent offenders and it usually ends up costing someone their life or substantial bodily harm

 

[ExodusNirvana]

we can we talk about prevention?

the man was sitting on the curb aimlessly because he had no home to go or elsewhere to be.

possibly mentally-ill man was able to acquire a gun.

multiple societal failures took place for this senseless tragedy to occur.

See my previous post on the thread

 

[JP_614]

The laws are there. Crime is illegal. It’s up to prosecutors and the courts to enforce them properly for violent criminals. These bozos routinely let the public down, and go soft on violent offenders and it usually ends up costing someone their life or substantial bodily harm

We had a guy he killed a High schooler in a hit and run about to weeks ago. Dude had 164 traffic infractions and crimes dating back to 1996.

Suspect in hit-and-run that killed teen had 164 traffic violations dating back 3 decades, records show

 

[Mowgli]

Homeless beef

 

[Ray D’Angelo Harris]

The fvck is going on in St. Louis anyway

 

[Ray D’Angelo Harris]

We had a guy he killed a High schooler in a hit and run about to weeks ago. Dude had 164 traffic infractions and crimes dating back to 1996.

Suspect in hit-and-run that killed teen had 164 traffic violations dating back 3 decades, records show

And then the very first line you see after the article’s title, under the screen cap, says: “He was released after turning himself into police on Thursday night.”

 

[WMG the 2nd]

How does someone this crazy even have access to a firearm in the first place

Video shows gunman nonchalantly shooting homeless man execution-style in broad daylight in St. Louis
By Ben Kesslen and Lee Brown

February 28, 2023 | 4:14pm

A St. Louis man was arrested Tuesday after a video appeared to catch him nonchalantly shooting a homeless man execution-style in broad daylight.

Deshawn Thomas, 23, was arrested in connection with the Monday murder but has yet to be charged, police said.

Thomas can be seen struggling to load his gun as he stands right behind the homeless man, who is sitting on the curb just a few feet away, a bystander video posted online shows.

He then appears to fire at the yet-to-be-identified victim, who raised his arms at one point, but made no attempt to run away and seemed almost resigned to his fate, the video shows.

“Oh my God. He just f–king killed him,” the witness can be heard saying.

The shooting happened in the heart of downtown St. Louis around 10 a.m. Monday, police said.

“Any homicide is unnerving,” Major Ryan Cousins told the St. Louis Dispatch at the scene, “but for this one to happen here, at this time, very much so.”

The victim, whose name has not been released, had fended off Thomas at a Shell gas station just minutes before. Thomas chased him across the street before allegedly shooting him, police said.

Cousins said the victim was likely in his 40s but didn’t provide more details about him.

The video was posted on Twitter but was taken down due to its graphic nature.

“Twitter took down this video I posted yesterday so I’ll post it again,” the person who posted the video wrote, according to the Riverfront Times. “Doesn’t show the murder on camera so stop censoring it.”

Thomas was taken into custody by police at a local library after fleeing.

US Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) retweeted the video on Tuesday and called for St. Louis’ embattled circuit attorney to resign.

“Kim Gardner must go. Prosecute the criminals,” the Republican lawmaker wrote.

Deshawn Thomas, 23, was arrested at a library after fleeing the scene of the shooting. St. Louis Police Department

Before the video of the Monday murder surfaced, Gardner was already under fire after a driver facing felony charges for robbery — who had violated his bail conditions multiple times — hit a teenager earlier this month, causing her to lose her legs.

Missouri Republicans have called for the state to handle the prosecution of violent crimes instead of Gardner, and filed court documents recently in an attempt to fire her.

23?!?

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

Too many guns in the U.S.
It's terrifying.

 

[Meowth tote da Uzi]

Gotta use 360 awareness mane. How you let a nikka put a whole ass gun together

 

[the artist known az]

I couldn't stand there and record someone getting shot. The cac couldn't call the cops?

 

[ExodusNirvana]

Gotta use 360 awareness mane. How you let a nikka put a whole ass gun together

Because he was homeless and either on substances or dealing with another different mental illness from the man who shot him

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

That's the kind of mugshot that changes elections.

Pendulum gonna swing something awful with these liberal Democrats not locking up repeat violent offendeders

Missouri has a Republican trifecta. St. Louis specifically has passed minimal reforms with some undone by the Governor/State Legislature. Furthermore, there is no evidence to support the claim that criminal justice reforms are the problem.

Criminal Justice Reform Efforts and Rise in Crime: Spotlight on City of St. Louis, Mo. - R Street Institute

This is the third in a series of posts on the subject. Scroll to the end to see the most recent posts in the series. Introduction The nation has been captivated by reports of rising crime and the wave of criminal justice reform. Some news outlets and elected officials claim a correlation between...

www.rstreet.org

Just seven years ago, St. Louis was jailing people at twice the rate of the national average, imprisoning people at nearly three times the average rate, and experiencing the most homicides per capita of any large city. It is clear that the “tough-on-crime” approach was not working.


The data evaluated in this paper shows that the implementation of local reforms did not result in an increase in violent crimes (including murders, rapes, robberies and assaults) or in burglaries and thefts in St. Louis. Rather, if St. Louis implements recommended reforms—such as pre-arrest diversion strategies—or makes current efforts more robust, outcomes could actually improve. However, there is a question as to whether reform efforts (as implemented) could be related to an increase in motor vehicle thefts.


Over the last two years, rapes, robberies and burglaries declined significantly. In fact, rapes and robberies reduced by more than 50 percent in 2021 from highs within a six-year period, and burglaries by 42 percent. While larceny did not see as significant of a decrease, the crime rate has been on a downward trend, reaching a six-year low in 2021. Given these statistics, it is reasonable to conclude that these crimes could not have increased due to reform efforts during that period of time.


In contrast, murder and assault rates have been cycling up and down over the last six years. Prosecutorial declinations for felonies increased in 2017 and the use of summons for felonies increased in 2018 and 2019; however, murder and assault rates both increased and decreased during this time, confuting any connection. While the initial increase in murders and assaults seems to correlate with bail reform, the drastic decrease the following year challenges this conclusion; murder and assault rates decreased substantially after the implementation of crisis intervention efforts, indicating a correlation with reduced crime, if anything.