There are things I really like about Florida. This is one of those things.
At a Miami Beach car wash in December 2018, a car thief named Jose Antonio Reyes Bermudez pushed an employee and climbed into a customer’s empty Mercedes SUV. As the SUV accelerated forward, the customer ran toward the vehicle — pistol already drawn.
The customer, Stephen Allen Lott, aimed his pistol and fired two shots as the SUV tried to drive away from the lot.
Mortally wounded, Reyes Bermudez — who did not have a gun or a knife — lost control of the stolen SUV. It plowed into the side of a building across the street, destroying an electrical box and cutting power to the street.
In newly released surveillance video, Lott does not look like he’s about to get struck by the SUV. In fact, the SUV had already turned right, and the bullets entered the side of the SUV, one piercing the left side of Reyes Bermudez’s head.
But under Florida’s Stand Your Ground law, Lott had no duty to retreat. He told police that in the split seconds, he thought the SUV was bearing down on him and he fired into the vehicle’s front. And, according to a newly released prosecutor’s memo, he uttered the phrase that helped make charging him legally untenable.
“I was in fear for my life and I shot,” Lott told a Miami Beach police officer.
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more with video at link
Remember those words…
Watching the video, I don’t think the guy was in fear for his life, but if those magic words can save you from prison…
Gotta love Florida. I have no sympathy for the bad guys.
ht/ jd hasty
My favorite quote: Dead criminals don’t commit crimes.
Stealing cars is not a healthy move in the long run, or as in this case the short term.
Mr. Lott is lucky Bermudez wasn’t black or he’d have gotten the Drejka treatment.
It’s coming right for us.
https://youtu.be/GaazFYTrQ_A
@Anonymous… dead criminals can’t testify against you either. It’s a win/win.
In a truly Just society, all you should have to say is, “That motherfucker was stealing my car; so I shot his ass.”, show video proof, and be on your merry way.
Nice head shot! The car’s going to need some touch up paint though!
Oh and by the way “Florida man” is packing!
Another gun story with a happy ending….
The moral of the story – Don’t steal things.
If it works to keep cops who kill people on the payroll, the same phrase has to be accepted when non-police use it.
Looks like Robert Kraft isn’t the only who got a happy ending in Florida
IN TEXAS YOU CAN SHOOT SOMEONE FOR STEALING
YOUR PROPERTY.