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Armed "Protest" and customer intimidation in Dallas
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 7:23 am
by Beiruty
That is not the right way to protest, I wonder why it is not on the news...
Coming like this to a business with long guns is not cool.
http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2016/07/01/arme ... yptr=yahoo
Re: Armed "Protest" and customer intimidation in Dallas
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 7:43 am
by Smokey613
Looks like a violation of 42.01 of the Texas Penal code, specifically Section 8:
"(8) displays a firearm or other deadly weapon in a public place in a manner calculated to alarm;"
Try that here and you will take a ride.
Re: Armed "Protest" and customer intimidation in Dallas
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 8:06 am
by KLB
At best, this is extremely poor judgment. People like this make all gun owners look bad.
Re: Armed "Protest" and customer intimidation in Dallas
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 8:20 am
by lildave40
KLB wrote:At best, this is extremely poor judgment. People like this make all gun owners look bad.
I dont think this was a gun support issue. If you listen at the end they are chanting Black lives matter. I feel this is more intimidation more than anything else.
Re: Armed "Protest" and customer intimidation in Dallas
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 8:29 am
by TVGuy
lildave40 wrote:KLB wrote:At best, this is extremely poor judgment. People like this make all gun owners look bad.
I dont think this was a gun support issue. If you listen at the end they are chanting Black lives matter. I feel this is more intimidation more than anything else.
I believe it was "Black Power" and is reminiscent of Black Panther protests of decades past.
Re: Armed "Protest" and customer intimidation in Dallas
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 8:44 am
by Beiruty
TVGuy wrote:lildave40 wrote:KLB wrote:At best, this is extremely poor judgment. People like this make all gun owners look bad.
I dont think this was a gun support issue. If you listen at the end they are chanting Black lives matter. I feel this is more intimidation more than anything else.
I believe it was "Black Power" and is reminiscent of Black Panther protests of decades past.
Isn't "Black Power" is a racist slogan?

Re: Armed "Protest" and customer intimidation in Dallas
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 8:59 am
by Soccerdad1995
Beiruty wrote:TVGuy wrote:lildave40 wrote:KLB wrote:At best, this is extremely poor judgment. People like this make all gun owners look bad.
I dont think this was a gun support issue. If you listen at the end they are chanting Black lives matter. I feel this is more intimidation more than anything else.
I believe it was "Black Power" and is reminiscent of Black Panther protests of decades past.
Isn't "Black Power" is a racist slogan?

No your thinking of something else. Same last word, but a different first word, at least according to the PC crowd.
Re: Armed "Protest" and customer intimidation in Dallas
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 9:09 am
by vjallen75
I am very surprised the officers choose to not arrest these "protesters".
I would think that after this:
one of the armed men wrote:Y’all allow y’all’s employees to pull guns on customers, you’ll aren’t gonna have no customers
That would be considering alarming and wouldn't it be considered a threat?
Re: Armed "Protest" and customer intimidation in Dallas
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 9:18 am
by Soccerdad1995
Not having been there it's tough to know the exact demeanor and tone they used, but my first thought was that they were lucky there wasn't an armed customer in the store. A group of men carrying long guns and ordering everyone to leave the store could very easily have been mistaken as an imminent threat.
Re: Armed "Protest" and customer intimidation in Dallas
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 9:37 am
by Smokey613
Soccerdad1995 wrote:Not having been there it's tough to know the exact demeanor and tone they used, but my first thought was that they were lucky there wasn't an armed customer in the store. A group of men carrying long guns and ordering everyone to leave the store could very easily have been mistaken as an imminent threat.
My thoughts exactly. What if an off duty LEO had been inside at the time? Things could have gone bad really quick. This was definitely an act of stupidity on the part of the people carrying the rifles.
Re: Armed "Protest" and customer intimidation in Dallas
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 12:19 pm
by Bitter Clinger
Thugs.
Re: Armed "Protest" and customer intimidation in Dallas
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 12:34 pm
by parabelum
Bitter Clinger wrote:Thugs.
100%.
I just caught this thread and read the story. Makes me fume
My wife owns a business and we would never allow these losers to pull that thuggery in our store. Despicable.

Re: Armed "Protest" and customer intimidation in Dallas
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 1:04 pm
by BurtG
Show up armed, order everybody out, but considered a protest ?
Seems like there was an implied threat of deadly force if the customers refused to comply with their
demands to me. Why have the weapons otherwise ? They served to intimidate and threaten seems to me.
Re: Armed "Protest" and customer intimidation in Dallas
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 1:38 pm
by JakeTheSnake
If someone came to a store with guns and ordered me out, I would feel like I was being kidnapped. No?
Re: Armed "Protest" and customer intimidation in Dallas
Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 1:05 pm
by Abraham
Wow!
Had I been a customer I'dve thought this either a criminal or terrorist action and would've responded...