One More Thing...

Oh alright, maybe just one more thing on this Bobby Gadsden incident and then this blogger must consider moving forward to other, more pressing issues.  Just as I was mesmerized by this Wanda (full of) Bull-shit person on the Facebook pages, I am also mesmerized by the emotions this subject has evoked throughout that area.

The town of Moncks Corner, once a sleepy little village nestled in Berkeley County, SC, was just a tiny dot on the map up until about 4 years ago when 2 police officers were gunned down during a domestic dispute and subsequent car chase.  Never in their history, had that ever happened.  Their crime rate was minimal and the area much safer than its surrounding counties.  Statistics are proving that not only is the population growing, so is the crime rate.

Along comes this home invasion with the homeowner defending his castle and using deadly force against an intruder or attacker in his own home.  The initial statement is that the homeowner saw the invader coming down the stairs with his own rifle in his hands, now making this burglar armed.  Not that it would make a difference in SC, since the Castle Doctrine law, or the Protection of Persons and Property Act, as it is known in SC, does not require the invader be armed with anything.  By virtue of the fact that he is in the residence unlawfully, he is committing a dangerous felony and he is perceived as a threat to the homeowner.  It's a kill or be killed kind of aspect.  No one person can predict what another will do under any given circumstance and the stand your ground rule applies.  As another blogger, Beat and Release, put it so eloquently, "All bets are off."  He's on your home turf and you have no duty to retreat. You have the absolute right to defend yourself and your property.

But I digress....

As the point was in my last blog entry, I made a challenge to any REAL journalist to come forward and report the other side of the coin in this continuous chronicle of what is an injustice against the homeowner.
Since the Gadsden / Williams family has managed to ingratiate themselves to the local, and maybe even the international news media, perhaps some industrious reporter would like to put the pieces together and analyze the data that spilled forth from the Gadsden/Williams camp for days, and now weeks after the shooting.
If any one of you out there has any investigate skills beyond your computer desk, maybe you'll be able to put two and two together.

Shortly after arriving in to town, Tyler Williams, the uncle of the deceased burglar Bobby Gadsden, posted a plea on cnn ireport filled with fabrications, rumors and assumptions.  He had no facts to substantiate or support any of the accusations he made in this statement.  He went so far as to say that there were witnesses, including a local councilman of all things, and accused the homeowner's son as being complicit in the burglary.
They accused the Berkeley County Coroner of withholding Bobby's body until a "release" could be signed.  The coroner denies that, as well as stating he never told the family that Bobby was shot in the chest versus the head. As days passed, more rumor and innuendo were heard.  The 911 tape was released and rumor flew that it may have been tampered with before being released publicly.  Then they assert the body was moved, the crime scene was staged, and now, it went from Bobby being armed with one of the homeowners long guns to allegedly being armed with a crow bar.  I wonder, did any of the local news reporters actually LOOK at the crime scene photos the family was displaying at the news conference?

Two separate reporters from the Charleston County newspaper the Post and Courier, really should get together and compare notes. The story was also carried in another, smaller newspaper called the Berkeley Independent.

I am tossing the gauntlet folks.  Perhaps you should ALL get together and report on the family's inconsistencies instead of on what all the local governments may or may not have done wrong.

The Moncks Corner Police Dept. is undoubtedly aggravated and tired of having to re-address each and every one of these rumors and irrelevant questions the family poses.  Perhaps with a little push from all of you, the DA will make a statement representative of the actual facts and then the New Jersey-ites will go home forever, bury Gadsden, and everyone can move on with their lives.

Bobby Gadsden made his bed - there's no doubt about that.  His family wants answers.  It's probably a safe assumption that the community wants to move forward instead of listening to these people prattling on daily about what an injustice it was for their precious little convicted criminal to be shot in the head while in the act of committing a felony.

Just for once, maybe the news media will stop being so one-sided.