I, too, have wandered around buildings under construction. I 5hink the last time was in college, when they were building a new dorm and the framing was put up.
What is criminal about it is the checking out a house under construction without permission.
Your cite does not say what you claim it does. Not at all. You just had to read past the first sentence.
With Georgia specifically it looks like there does need to be a “no trespassing” sign up for it to be criminal just to be there.
I didn’t know about that law, and it is a good bet he didn’t either. Your tying it to burglary, or worse, assuming that he intended to burglarize the site, is absolutely asinine.
So, do you want to backtrack on that burglary crap?
And here is the video. Note the porta-potty outside, eliminating the “had to pee” excuse.
Nope. There is no vaid excuse for him to wander into someone else’s property and spend minutes inside a house under construction. None.
That is NOT burglary, asshole!
That video appears to show him walking into a home under construction, but all I see is a tree blocking the view as to whether he entered the home under construction or merely looked through a side window and/or looked around the back for a little bit. Is there any video showing him actually entering the place?
You are right–burglary is only one of the possible reasons that he was entering the private property of a random stranger and wandering around without permission. It is just IMHO the most logical one.
I don’t think that would be considered ‘burglary,’ as the house is uninhabitable, but it would be simple trespassing or unauthorized access onto private property.
Hardly worth drawing pistols out though.
Your HO isn’t worth SFA. Why embarrass yourself trying to convince us your opinion has merit? Why not just say you think it’s okay to shoot people if you think you have a reason to?
Here’s the definition of the law of burglary in Georgia, according to a Georgia law firm:
You’ve quoted the key passage, where the 911 operator clearly knows what the law of burglary is:
So, what breaking and entering are you asserting Mr Arbery did, and where’s your evidence for that? What door or window are you asserting he forced open?
Second, what was the felonious intent? What felony is there evidence that he intended to commit?
You can’t expect people to answer this question without knowing how dark your skin is.
It’s a construction site, and the article indicated that he was seen walking around the property not actually inside a finished, habitable structure. There’s no felony in progress.
I don’t advise lurking around construction sites, but I can remember wandering onto private property numerous times when I was a kid or a teenager - everything from a neighbor’s front lawn to construction sites to demolition sites to college baseball fields. My friends and I were simply warned to get off the property immediately - problem solved.
You know why?
Because even when we were teenagers and physically mature enough to whip someone’s ass or worse for confronting us, the people who saw us trespassing still didn’t make the assumption that we were dangerous. They didn’t confront us with guns. They didn’t treat us like we were dangerous beasts that had escaped from a wildlife park.
Ahmaud Arbery is dead because the people who saw him simply wandering around on the wrong property assumed, just as George Zimmerman did with Trayvon Martin, that he was black and was therefore a drug-dealing thug. All that was required was a simple phone call to the cops. Arbery would be alive, and they wouldn’t be spending their life savings to defend their freedom.
You need to address this to Czarcasm, since he is the one who brought up bulgary, not me. I said only “rob.”
Why did you say rob? What made you assume he was taking property forcibly from another? No where is there a victim of robbery or burglary by him. Yet he s dead and also innocent of your slander.
You’re really not helping your argument, but I’ll play along.
So, which of these are shown or intimated in the video?
I think the sidetrack of beating on Darren Garrison for making the observation that he may have been doing something wrong is mistaken, since it tends to carry the implication that something here hinges on Arbery being completely innocent of any wrongdoing. It does not. Perhaps he was up to no good, who knows. What would it change if video emerged of him actually stealing something? As asahi has said, white people are not held to some standard of sainthood where suspicion (justified or not) that they may have recently been committing some minor non-violent crime (and present no physical threat whatsoever, imminent or otherwise) leads to a heavily armed redneck lynch mob setting out to confront and murder them.