{"id":51511,"date":"2022-02-27T04:42:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-27T10:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.wordpress.com\/?p=51511"},"modified":"2022-02-27T04:42:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T10:42:06","slug":"armed-citizen-corner-retired-florida-swat-officer-acquitted-in-2014-movie-theater-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/27\/armed-citizen-corner-retired-florida-swat-officer-acquitted-in-2014-movie-theater-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed Citizen Corner: Retired Florida SWAT officer Acquitted in 2014 Movie Theater Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>H\/T <a href=\"https:\/\/eatgrueldog.wordpress.com\/2022\/02\/26\/retired-florida-cop-who-shot-man-in-theater-acquitted-of-murder\/\">EatGruelDog<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-51514\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2022\/02\/a4.png?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-51513\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2022\/02\/a3.png?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"266\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/crime\/retired-florida-swat-officer-acquitted-in-movie-theater-shooting\/ar-AAUlwZZ\">Retired Florida SWAT officer acquitted in movie theater shooting<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Remember this shooting?<\/h2>\n<h2>I had to go back to the 2014 Archives to find the article I wrote about it titled <a href=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.wordpress.com\/2014\/01\/28\/becoming-a-superior-gunman\/\">Becoming a Superior Gunman.<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2>Eight friggin years for a murder trial seems excessive to me, especially considering the man on trial for murder was pushing 80?<\/h2>\n<h2>The was an egregious TRAVESTY of Justice and another pathetic example of the &#8220;good ole&#8217; boy network&#8221; of Law Enforcement taking care of one another.<\/h2>\n<h2>If you go through the details of the confrontation that night in the theater, you will see that this is a clear-cut case of a retired cop&#8217;s bruised ego getting the better of him.<\/h2>\n<h2>Verbal Provocation (even when accompanied by a thrown bag of popcorn) is NEVER grounds for deadly force. In addition, the man had 30 years of Law Enforcement &#8220;experience&#8221; which should have given him MORE self-control and good judgement than the average civilian.<\/h2>\n<h2>Reeves should have been found guilty of Second Degree Murder and sentenced to the maximum and died alone in prison.<\/h2>\n<h2>My heartfelt condolences and prayers go out to Chad Oulson&#8217;s widow and his eight year old daughter. <a id=\"emoji-info-url\" class=\"ek_link\" href=\"https:\/\/emojikeyboard.org\/copy\/Folded_Hands_Emoji_%F0%9F%99%8F?utm_source=extlink\"><span id=\"emoji-info-value\">\ud83d\ude4f<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H\/T EatGruelDog &nbsp; Retired Florida SWAT officer acquitted in movie theater shooting &nbsp; Remember this shooting? I had to go back to the 2014 Archives to find the article I wrote about it titled Becoming a Superior Gunman. Eight friggin years for a murder trial seems excessive to me, especially considering the man on trial&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3786,5445,389,390,391,13,74,1928,1635,3986,2863],"tags":[7114,5989,13972],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51511"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}