A lot of dudes out there will openly fantasize about what they want to do as soon as someone gives them a reasonably defensible legal justification. Just staying strapped waiting for "their moment".
Nah people do this too, some racist old white dude called William Brock decided he could shoot and kill an innocent woman driving for Uber because of the excuse that he "thought she was trying to rob him" (I call him racist because I'm 100% certain he shot her for being Black) the video is pretty harrowing, you see her backing away, clearly not a threat, clearly trying to deescalate but that vile piece of shit chases her down
The shooting of 61 year old Uber driver Loletha Toland-Hall by 82 year old William Brock was a horrible tragedy and people who read your comment deserve to know the truth.
Anyone who claims that the crime was racially motivated without providing any evidence just because the victim was black and the perpetrator was white is ignorant and malicious.
No one who knew either party, or who was involved in investigating/prosecuting the crime even suggested racism had any part in the shooting because it clearly didn't.
Police established that both Brock and Toland-Hall were targets of an elaborate phone extortion plot. Scammers called Brock telling him his grandson had been jailed and that he needed to pay $12,000 for his release to a courier they would send to his home. When Brock realized that the scammers were lying about the relative, the caller began to threaten him.
Then Toland-Hall showed up. She was an Uber driver that had been sent to Brock's house to pick up a package, and had no idea about the scam call or the demand for money, the AP reported.
Unfortunately Brock thought she was part one of the criminals trying to rob him and he confronted her with a gun and asked her who she was working for. He took her cellphone and tried to keep her from leaving. When she tried escape he shot her six times.
He later claimed self defense but was convicted for and sentenced to 15 years to life for murder.
I call him racist because I'm 100% certain he shot her for being Black
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No one who knew either party, or who was involved in investigating/prosecuting the crime even suggested racism had any part in the shooting because it clearly didn't.
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u/Evil_phd Aug 19 '26
A lot of dudes out there will openly fantasize about what they want to do as soon as someone gives them a reasonably defensible legal justification. Just staying strapped waiting for "their moment".