He is being downvoted because he's clearly obsessed with this shit (see post history), he doesn't live here, and he's trying to relitigate a Raimondo idea from THREE FUCKING YEARS AGO that didn't even last a month.

You're correct, and he'll end up soundly convicted of those firearms related charges. That doesnt negate the self defense claim though. There is no duty to retreat in RI, so as long as the story doesn't develop differently his claim of self defense will probably stand.

i was going to include the word Saturday but that was too obvious. Oh well.

I am sure the story that leads to this eviction would shed a bit more light on the story. Its not the tenant but some other person is the first sign of trouble. I bet they had been in the RI eviction process and she found out that even though she had not rented to this person, he was now her tenant and had more rights than she had. I have been a landlord in RI, and never again.

LOL ABC6 doesnt even mention the landlord kicking the door in. The way they worded their articles tells us all we need to know about how they wanted us all to feel about it...

Every single news outlet calling it an "eviction". Could these journalists be more braindead?

my old boss once said "i had to walk to school uphill both ways in 8 inches of snow in 100 degree weather"

Fair. Woosh; that went right over my head.

Apparently I’m not the only one who mistook your joke as a genuine comment though, so at least I’m not alone in my lack of observation skills.

(Edit- I will note that it’s safe to say we’ve all read people make similar complaints like that in earnest on here)

This is way too many words for a joke about school being cancelled on a Saturday

>There were people asking Gina to use the coast guard to patrol the coast

Are these people in the room with you now?

The way that the articles are using passive voice to describe 'the door getting kicked in' is pretty wild.

From the Fall River Reporter: According to Providence Police and WJAR 10, Jensen and two others went up to a third-floor apartment on Prudence Avenue to evict 36-year-old Rufus Watson when the apartment’s door was kicked in and Watson shot Jensen with an AR-15 gun.

There were people asking Gina to use the coast guard to patrol the coast to make sure they weren't coming in that way, and she respond like it was a good idea they would consider instead of dismissing it as ridiculous. Others were upset that there would be NY'ers using area hospital beds. The RI yokels were out of control and ridiculous with their demands.

He shouldn't have, no. But the law with eviction procedures are there for a reason and help protect both tenants and landlords. What if he didn't have a gun? Was she was going to force him at gunpoint to leave? There's definitely still variables here but she went about it in a way that circumvented the law and the courts and paid the price for it.

Even if he was a scumbag and had an illegal gun, it was still an illegal eviction and breaking and entering and he could be justified in a self defense claim.

Folks may not have had as many problems with subjecting children to frostbite conditions in the past, but that doesn’t mean that those kids didn’t grow into adults and realize how fucked up that was to do to kids.

”For example, for someone outside when the temperature is around five degrees and the wind is at 35 mph, frostbite can set in after about 30 minutes. If the temperature drops to -5 degrees with the same wind speed, frostbite can set in in about 10 minutes.”

Regardless, I don’t think that frostbite burns and kids losing the tips of their noses, ears, fingertips and toes is the solution to what you deem wimpy children.

Describing her actions as attempting to evict someone obscures that she was perpetrating an armed B&E (granted she was in fact strapped and behaving as described in the article). Although the loss of her life is certainly tragic, attempting an armed extrajudicial eviction was a pretty moronic move.

This is why we have courts and law enforcement officials who handle evictions. Now she’s dead over rent, and this guy is probably going to be convicted of several firearms related felonies and serve time.

Very sad day.

So landlord shows up armed with her friends to do an illegal eviction instead of going through the courts or the police, likely threatened the guy for him to be prepared for them with a gun, and she got shot.

Regardless of if Watson is a good person or not, the victim went about it in the worst way possible and I'd argue that situations like that would turn violent more often than not.

He’s also a prohibited person, so shouldn’t have had a gun

I wish the US’s infrastructure was better planned so that walking was a more convenient option for getting around to different places, in general.

(Edits-grammar and wording)

It appears the eviction was illegal. But it also appears that Watson was trespassing. He was not the tenant and had no legal right to be there.

I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s way more to this story than we have learned to date.

And the entire situation illustrates how our country’s gun culture inevitably ends lives unnecessarily. This situation is unlikely to have ended (or even unfolded) this way in countries with common sense restrictions on personal firearms and ammunition.

Reddit was all on board! Fellow Americans? Fuck them! It was the most absurd bullshit ever. 1/2 of the support came from the Raimondo can do no wrong fan club, never saw a bigger bunch of clowns! Here are a couple of classic reddit threads from then:

https://old.reddit.com/r/RhodeIsland/comments/fpwu7y/aclu_objects_to_giving_state_police_power_to_pull/

https://old.reddit.com/r/RhodeIsland/comments/fqas6w/ri_state_police_national_guard_set_up_checkpoint/

https://old.reddit.com/r/RhodeIsland/comments/fqwg4m/ny_gov_threatens_to_sue_ri/

Think about what you just said lmao.

A person who was not an officer of the law kicked his door in, armed. He defended himself. Unfortunately his gun wasn't legal so he's going to face some legal consequences, but this sounds, on the basis of the information given so far, like self defense.

This is not how "eviction" works - you have to go through a lawful process, not just try to physically remove someone.

you think any one of them was going to turn around and leave their vacation home to go back to a city with twenty five thousand people per square mile? Please.

To be honest, I think the biggest failure of COVID policy is that this, much like everything else, ran on the honor system.

Think you're going to turn on your heat for this?

Murder? Manslaughter?

Followed up by “why are taxes being hiked and services being cut after the collapse in tourism revenue?”