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**Black H@t** · (This post was last modified: 06-10-2012 11:10 PM by Black H@t.)

When music at a neighbor’s evening party got too loud for his liking, Raul Rodriguez showed up to complain, carrying a gun and a video camera.

As a verbal confrontation unfolded, the retired Houston-area firefighter told a police dispatcher by phone that he feared for his life and was “standing his ground,” a reference that calls to mind the law at the center of the Trayvon Martin slaying in Florida in February.

The incident involving Rodriguez happened two years before Martin’s death and will be decided under a different kind of self-defense doctrine. But it offers another example of how laws governing deadly force are tested in the nation’s courtrooms and the many complex legal issues that swirl around each case.

Prosecutors call Rodriguez an aggressor who could have safely left his neighbor’s driveway anytime. His defense attorneys insist Texas law still gave him the right to defend himself, even if it meant taking a life.

In a 22-minute video that he recorded that night, Rodriguez can be heard talking to a police dispatcher after walking over to the home of Kelly Danaher to complain about the noise. Both men lived in Huffman, an unincorporated area about 30 miles northeast of Houston.

Rodriguez told the dispatcher he feared for his life. He can also be heard telling Danaher and two other men to keep the noise down. One of the men, who had apparently seen Rodriguez’s gun, cursed at Rodriguez and suggested that he was going to go inside Danaher’s home and retrieve his own weapon.

Houston Man Faces Murder Charge in Stand Your Ground Like Case

“Look, I will defend myself, sir. … It’s about to get out of hand, sir. Please help me. Please help me, sir. My life is in danger now,” Rodriguez can be heard saying on the recording, which was played for jurors this week. The images are mostly dark or in shadow.

“I’m standing my ground here. Now these people are going to go try and kill me.”

Rodriguez, 47, eventually tells the dispatcher, “Look I’m not losing to these people anymore.” A loud cackling laugh is then heard before someone appears to reach for the camera and a gun goes off.

Source:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/texas-ma...is-ground/

Pi Infinity User ID: 3.14159265 06-10-2012 11:11 PM

This is just what they want the sheep to do. False flag attack Horse2

**Sunny**

Wait a minute, the guy went over to his neighbors house with gun and shot him?

To me that isn't stand your ground, that's trespassing and murder.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 100734 06-10-2012 11:17 PM

ALREADY POSTED!!!

That's THREE TIMES TODAY!

https://lunaticoutpost.com/Topic-Stand-Y...-complaint

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**Angry Chicken**

Sunny Wrote:

Wait a minute, the guy went over to his neighbors house with gun and shot him?

To me that isn't stand your ground, that's trespassing and murder.

^^This^^

**Angry Chicken**

LoP Guest Wrote:

ALREADY POSTED!!!

That's THREE TIMES TODAY!

https://lunaticoutpost.com/Topic-Stand-Y...-complaint

**Coolchick**

Angry Chicken Wrote:

LoP Guest Wrote:
ALREADY POSTED!!!

That's THREE TIMES TODAY!

https://lunaticoutpost.com/Topic-Stand-Y...-complaint

**Currahee**

Angry Chicken Wrote:

Sunny Wrote:
Wait a minute, the guy went over to his neighbors house with gun and shot him?

To me that isn't stand your ground, that's trespassing and murder.

^^This^^

^^That^^