San Antonio shooting

[CraigAPS]

"Well your honor, we had a report of a tattoo'd man practicing law without a license. This man had tattoos on his face and neck and was holding a 6th Edition Black's Law Dictionary, so we stopped to talk to him."

Totally reasonable.

Again, it depends.

If you're saying police can't just walk up to a tat'd up dude and conduct a custodial interrogation, then you're right.

But, real situations are usually more complicated than, "I stopped him because he has tats."

The original comment that started this line was that someone had stated that LEOs should be able to stop and frisk anyone that looked like the suspects in the robbery/homicide at the mall. That was the entire premise behind my comments. Specifically, that a LEO cannot simply stop and frisk a citizen because he has visible tattoos or even because he has specific tattoos (prison/gang).

 

[Alamo]

https://www.ksat.com/news/man-accused-in-rolling-oaks-mall-shooting-sentenced-to-life-in-prison

One of the robbers took a plea bargain and plead guilty to murder and aggravated robber, thus sentenced to life +20 rather than face a capital murder trial.

 

[Vigilant]

https://www.ksat.com/news/man-accused-in-rolling-oaks-mall-shooting-sentenced-to-life-in-prison

One of the robbers took a plea bargain and plead guilty to murder and aggravated robber, thus sentenced to life +20 rather than face a capital murder trial.

Chicken ****! Everybody wants to be a gangsta, until gangsta **** starts, then they be like... No way should this mother****er be able to plead out of capital murder! This be Texas, they kill *****es what **** up!

 

[Alamo]

IIRC, it’s the other robber who actually pulled the trigger (and was subsequently shot, not fatally,by a LTC holder). Under Texas law of parties both robbers can be charged with capital murder. I suspect part of the plea bargain is for this guy to testify against his buddy at his buddy’s capital murder trial.

Since the plea-bargainer was arrested Texas has executed 10, and another 5 are scheduled thru July. He was no doubt kept well aware of that while thinking about his options .