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| July 6, 2019

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Witnesses: Florida Man in Tuxedo Showed Up with Knife, Was Shot Dead by Ex-Employer in Self-Defense

by Matt Naham
Witnesses to a bizarre and “surreal” scene that unfolded in Jupiter, Florida in the early hours of July Fourth say that a 65-year-old man shot dead a 32-year-old former employee in self-defense.

Jupiter Police responded to the scene of a disturbance that turned deadly early Thursday morning. WPTV reported that 65-year-old Louis Rivera shot and killed former employee 32-year-old James Dorcilien after the latter showed up with a knife at an apartment complex. Dorcilien was reportedly known to those at the apartment complex because he used to work there as a maintenance worker. Rivera was identified as a maintenance manager.

Witnesses said that Dorcilien was observed acting strangely in the minutes leading up to the fatal altercation. They said he was wearing a tuxedo; they also said there was a verbal altercation. Police reportedly responded to the scene just after midnight. Callers eventually reported that shots were fired.

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Couple on Trial for Shooting Rioter at 2017 Milo Yiannopoulos Speech
‘She will testify that if she didn’t pull that trigger, her husband would be gutted…’

Mike Carter, The Seattle Times
A jury will be asked to decide whether the Inauguration Day 2017 shooting of an anti-fascist demonstrator during violent protests on the University of Washington campus was righteous or reckless.

In opening statements in the assault trial for Marc and Elizabeth Hokoana on Wednesday in King County Superior Court, prosecutors painted the conservative Seattle couple as provocateurs who used the appearance of alt-right polemicist Milo Yiannopoulos at Kane Hall as an excuse to clash with “snowflakes” upset over the election of President Donald Trump, showing up armed and intent on conflict.

“Violence is exactly what Marc and Elizabeth Hokoana planned for and expected,” Senior Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Raam Wong told the nine-woman, five-man panel [two are alternates]. “Red Square was a tinder box, and the Hokoanas were intent on lighting the match.”

The defense argued that the couple, both 31, were swept up in an escalating storm of violence and that they resorted to lawful force—the use of pepper spray and a 9 mm handgun—to protect themselves and others when police failed to act as the protest spun out of control.

Elizabeth Hokoana, who defense attorney Steven Wells said routinely carried a handgun for self-defense and was licensed and trained in its use, will testify that she shot 35-year-old avowed anarchist Joshua Phelan Dukes, who was armed with a knife, at point-blank range when he grabbed her husband.

One person the jury won’t hear from is the victim—Dukes, through an attorney, has said he does not trust the criminal-justice system and won’t lend his testimony to a trial he doesn’t believe in.

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Sheriff: Boyle County homeowner holds theft suspect at gunpoint before deputies arrive

By WKYT News Staff
DANVILLE, Ky. (WKYT) – A Boyle County homeowner is being credited with stopping a thief in his tracks early Friday morning by holding him at gunpoint.

The Boyle County Sheriff’s Office says deputies were called to a home before 4 a.m. when a homeowner on Nield Road reported there was a thief on his property.

The homeowners told a deputy they were awakened when their gate intercom rang, and they later discovered a vehicle was missing. One of the homeowners went outside and saw two of his vehicles sitting near the road, and both were previously parked closer to the home.

The suspect, identified as Gary Lynn Ryan II, was still in one of the vehicles, and the homeowner held him at gunpoint until law enforcement arrived. The sheriff’s office says the homeowner was “rightfully and lawfully armed.”

Ryan was charged with theft by unlawful taking over $10,000, criminal mischief, marijuana possession and possession of drug paraphernalia.

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Today’s respectable count, Delta Whiskies and Whiskettes, stands at one-two-zero; for one mort, two inconvenienced, and none in the wind. So it goes.

No Kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave.
James Burgh

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11B-Mailclerk

How can the couple involved in the campus incident get a fair trial without being able to cross examine the person they say attacked them? (And who presumably dindu nuthin.) If the State claims their actions were not self-defense, are they not obliged to produce their claimed victim? He can take the Fifth, but I was under the impression that participation is not optional.

That go-along is sounding ominously like “don’t you dare defend yourself against those lynch mobs we deny exist and deny actively supporting, don’t you dare you uppity…”

As to Tux, kinda handy when the perp wears his funeral attire to the crime scene.

Toxic Deplorable B Woodman

I’m with you, 11B. Doesn’t the accused have the right to face their accuser? No accuser, should be no trial. But, the state doesn’t see it that way.

Frankly, I wish that sort of thing happened more often, someone wearing a mask or PantyFa colors getting shot.
Unfortunately, the PF cowards seem to like to attack their victims in gun control states and gun free zones.

Ex-PH2

This part is strange: One person the jury won’t hear from is the victim—Dukes, through an attorney, has said he does not trust the criminal-justice system and won’t lend his testimony to a trial he doesn’t believe in.

Okay, well, if he won’t participate because he doesn’t believe in the trial, then there is no crime, is there? Something is not right in this whole thing.

5th/77th FA

Another knife to a gun fight. And the tux? He was planning a formal funeral and wanted to be dressed for the occasion.

Hadn’t heard alot about the antifa scum case. Guess they didn’t want folks to know that people were fighting back against the chicken sh^t masked POS.

Ky thief lucky he wasn’t lawfully shot by the lawfully armed homeowner. We’ll hear from him again.

11B-Mailclerk

Call them what they are:

Fascist Action Groups

Toxic Deplorable B Woodman

FAGs
I see what you did there.
And I approve. (not that you need it)

Toxic Deplorable B Woodman

Once again, it’s Florida Man!
And you young’uns best learn a lesson from this, don’t mess with us old folks. We ain’t got the time ner strength to fight you off, we’ll just shoot you instead.

The Stranger

As I said in a previous thread, the admins should add a “Florida Man (or Woman)” category!🤣

Toxic Deplorable B Woodman

And what IS that damned awful gun pr0n monstrosity in the picture? One hell of a short barrel 12 ga. (10ga?). That, or a flare gun.
Enquiring minds, and all that.

Claw

It’s a sawed-off M79 Thumper.

Claw

Probably made for some kind of a wanna-be Grenadier in a Air Soft/Paint Ball LRP game./smile

26Limabeans

With flechette rounds.

rgr769

We had a 40mm “shotgun” round loaded with 00 buckshot which was quite effective at short range. I don’t recall a fleshette round in 40mm, but we had 12 gauge ones.

David

You can buy flechettes commercially.

rgr769

Most LRRP teams in the RVN and the MAC-SOG teams carried cut down M-79’s as a secondary weapon. The six-man teams usually carried one or two of them. They were created by cutting off the barrel at the forward hand guard and the stock just behind the pistol grip. Even with no sights they were quite effective. I was on the receiving end of one once. Fortunately, it was a CS gas round fired to gas me in the water at the beach, for the amusement of the training NCO’s at the conclusion of our division’s recondo course.

Ex-PH2

Is it just me, or are people really dumb enough these days to just leave their cars unlocked?

Andy11M

“Dukes, through an attorney, has said he does not trust the criminal-justice system and won’t lend his testimony to a trial he doesn’t believe in.”
Translation- it was my fault but I’m not going to testify and admit that.
So, attorneys of TAH, your “victim” refuses to testify, win for the defense? or does it not matter, because clearly the prosecutor is still moving forward.

26Limabeans

He will hold his breath until they let him go.

Toxic Deplorable B Woodman

Good. I hope he holds his breath until he passes out and falls to the floor, getting a concussion.

Jeff LPH 3, 63-66

That homeowner in Boyle County did the right thing by holding the perp at gunpoint and not letting the situation “Boyle” over/grin

Toxic Deplorable B Woodman

(rimshot)