Not in H town: Robber tries to rob taco shop gets shot by customer

tinman · Jan 9, 2023

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I haven’t seen the whole video but from what I’m hearing I think the shooter is legally in trouble. The general principle in self-defense is that you can act in proportion to a threat but inc that threat is stopped you can’t continue to act.

For example as a martial artist if someone were to attack me with a knife and I render them unconscious I can’t just keep on choking him until I kill him or take the knife and stab him. A knife is a lethal threat and in the moment to stop it I can use lethal force. If I happen to stop the threat but haven’t killed them in that moment I can’t then proceed to kill them.

From my understanding of this situation is that initially shooting the robber is legal under Texas law as Texas law allows lethal defense of oneself, others and property. Once the robber is down and especially after being disarmed then it becomes excessive use of force. So after the shooter takes the robber’s weapon away and then shoots him again that is where it really gets problematic.
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you saying that if you beat someone in Mortal Kombat
you can't deal a Fatality?

rocketsjudoka · Jan 9, 2023

tinman said: ↑

you saying that if you beat someone in Mortal Kombat
you can't deal a Fatality?
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In real life definintely not.

As someone with a lot of experience in martial arts do have to take care of legal standards and one of the things we are taught is that there is extra scrutiny when someone who is trained in martial arts gets into an altercation.

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