New York town official who shot DoorDash driver feared home invasion, lawyers say
US town official who shot DoorDash driver feared home invasion, lawyers say
What home invader Rings the doorbell? And he shot him as he was driving away. This defense is shit.
Exactly. I'm a terrible liar, can't do it to save my life, so I have huge... well, not really respect, but maybe bafflement towards people who are able to spout this caliber of bullshit with a straight face.
Home invaders sometimes ring doorbells to check if anyone is home: https://youtu.be/iYbV_GTY5k4
That doesn't excuse this asshat.
So do Girl Scouts selling cookies.
Maybe the Doordash guy didn't give him his food and he was really hungry so he shot at him. A hangry murder attempt.
It happens more often than you'd think these days. They pretend to be a dasher, the police, a maintenance worker, a tree trimming service. Anything to get in the door, especially if they're already planning on violence.
Obviously you still shouldn't shoot at people just for being in your driveway or at your door though.
Home invasion? How quaint! That was a thing 20 years ago. I mean, not actual home invasions. They were quite rare, just like they are now. Fear of home invasions as part of the national zeitgeist, though, where it's in the media all the time, and we make movies about it.
This guy needs to keep up. It's autistic trans illegals now. (And if he'd said he thought the guy was an ICE agent, I might have had a moment of sympathy.)
You can bet that conservative propaganda outlets are pushing the narrative that autistic trans illegals are breaking into homes, cleaning out medicine cabinets and replacing them with fentanyl or something equally as batshit.
The dude was driving away. Solid fear that he's breaking in, dude, I believe you. /s
Dude was driving away and the guns were illegal. Not in that they couldn't be made legal they just chose not to likely because they're an official and assumed they could get away with it.
Video clips from Reilly’s Ring doorbell camera, obtained by TV station News 12 and the Times Union, show the series of events. One clip shows the driver walking up to Reilly’s front door with a plastic bag and ringing the doorbell. Another, from a short time later, appears to show the driver back in his car and Reilly exiting his house with a handgun. Reilly then fires a shot into his front lawn while saying, “Go.”
The video then shows Reilly shooting at the car as the driver is making a three-point turn in the driveway. He fires a third shot as the car is driving away.
Kenniff and his firm also represented Daniel Penny, who was acquitted of criminally negligent homicide in December in connection with the chokehold death of Jordan Neely on a New York City subway in 2023.
Police executed a search warrant at Reilly’s house and seized eight illegally possessed guns, including the .45-caliber handgun used to shoot the driver, Hoovler said. While Reilly had a federal license to sell firearms, he did not have a New York state firearms license or pistol permit, making his possession of the guns illegal, Hoovler said
Sounds like a real cool guy who shouldn’t be flensed and left to bake in the sun.
Everyday is a day it becomes more dangerous to be a delivery driver than be a police officer