Being from Bama....sometimes involves a great deal of pondering.
Yesterday....out of Goodwater, Bama....we had a shooting. The facts as of today? A case had been brought up in some local court, to be tried in a townhall courtroom......where the guy was accused of a domestic dispute. He'd been injured in a car accident prior to this and broke a hip....so naturally, he was hobbling around on two crutches. I would suspect that he had a few drugs to help kill the pain as well.
So the city judge came to a decision, which went against the guy.....and he was a might-bit upset. At this point, he started waving his two crutches around.
Facts are cloudy after this point. Some say he tried to reach for a gun. Some said that he was just waving the crutches around. But the one cop on the scene felt the situation was out of hand and tried to push the guy down.....then perceived him reaching for his weapon....and shot him once. Then as the guy went down.....shot a second time.
Both shots went into his gut but he appears to be in survivable condition. Folks around Goodwater are a bit upset, saying that the guy should have been tased instead of shot. Some are just upset about the second shot, saying the first one was justified and the second one wasn't.
State cops got called out and will have to sort this out. I'm guessing they'd rather this not turn into a big episode, but they probably will have to interview at least twenty folks and collect statements. My guess is that the guy will get another charge or two dumped on him but the court will feel sorry and just let him off the hook at the end.
The bottom line? Well....this all started with a domestic situation and if he hadn't argued with his wife....he'd never been dragged into city court, never been charged with anything, had his car accident, had the broke hip, waved any crutches around a court to threaten folks, or been shot by some city cop. The Bama morale of the story....always agree with your wife.
