{"id":88666,"date":"2019-07-06T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T10:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=88666"},"modified":"2019-07-05T23:50:26","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T03:50:26","slug":"saturday-feel-good-stories-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=88666","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Feel Good Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/12-gauge-double-e1562384594140.jpg\" alt=\"double trouble\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Witnesses: Florida Man in Tuxedo Showed Up with Knife, Was Shot Dead by Ex-Employer in Self-Defense<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>by Matt Naham<br \/>\nWitnesses to a bizarre and \u201csurreal\u201d scene that unfolded in Jupiter, Florida in the early hours of July Fourth say that a 65-year-old man shot dead a 32-year-old former employee in self-defense.<\/p>\n<p>Jupiter Police responded to the scene of a disturbance that turned deadly early Thursday morning. WPTV reported that 65-year-old Louis Rivera shot and killed former employee 32-year-old James Dorcilien after the latter showed up with a knife at an apartment complex. Dorcilien was reportedly known to those at the apartment complex because he used to work there as a maintenance worker. Rivera was identified as a maintenance manager.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses said that Dorcilien was observed acting strangely in the minutes leading up to the fatal altercation. They said he was wearing a tuxedo; they also said there was a verbal altercation. Police reportedly responded to the scene just after midnight. Callers eventually reported that shots were fired.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>1 \/ 0 \/ 0<br \/>\nThe rest of the article may be viewed here: <a href=\"https:\/\/lawandcrime.com\/crazy\/witnesses-florida-man-in-tuxedo-showed-up-with-knife-was-shot-dead-by-ex-employer-in-self-defense\/\">Law and Crime<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Couple on Trial for Shooting Rioter at 2017 Milo Yiannopoulos Speech <\/strong><br \/>\n<em>\u2018She will testify that if she didn\u2019t pull that trigger, her husband would be gutted\u2026\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mike Carter, The Seattle Times<br \/>\nA jury will be asked to decide whether the Inauguration Day 2017 shooting of an anti-fascist demonstrator during violent protests on the University of Washington campus was righteous or reckless.<\/p>\n<p>In opening statements in the assault trial for Marc and Elizabeth Hokoana on Wednesday in King County Superior Court, prosecutors painted the conservative Seattle couple as provocateurs who used the appearance of alt-right polemicist Milo Yiannopoulos at Kane Hall as an excuse to clash with \u201csnowflakes\u201d upset over the election of President Donald Trump, showing up armed and intent on conflict.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cViolence is exactly what Marc and Elizabeth Hokoana planned for and expected,\u201d Senior Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Raam Wong told the nine-woman, five-man panel [two are alternates]. \u201cRed Square was a tinder box, and the Hokoanas were intent on lighting the match.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The defense argued that the couple, both 31, were swept up in an escalating storm of violence and that they resorted to lawful force\u2014the use of pepper spray and a 9 mm handgun\u2014to protect themselves and others when police failed to act as the protest spun out of control.<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Hokoana, who defense attorney Steven Wells said routinely carried a handgun for self-defense and was licensed and trained in its use, will testify that she shot 35-year-old avowed anarchist Joshua Phelan Dukes, who was armed with a knife, at point-blank range when he grabbed her husband.<\/p>\n<p>One person the jury won\u2019t hear from is the victim\u2014Dukes, through an attorney, has said he does not trust the criminal-justice system and won\u2019t lend his testimony to a trial he doesn\u2019t believe in.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>0 \/ 1 \/ 0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.libertyheadlines.com\/trial-shooting-antifa-rioter-milo\/\">Liberty Headlines<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sheriff: Boyle County homeowner holds theft suspect at gunpoint before deputies arrive<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By WKYT News Staff<br \/>\nDANVILLE, Ky. (WKYT) &#8211; A Boyle County homeowner is being credited with stopping a thief in his tracks early Friday morning by holding him at gunpoint.<\/p>\n<p>The Boyle County Sheriff&#8217;s Office says deputies were called to a home before 4 a.m. when a homeowner on Nield Road reported there was a thief on his property.<\/p>\n<p>The homeowners told a deputy they were awakened when their gate intercom rang, and they later discovered a vehicle was missing. One of the homeowners went outside and saw two of his vehicles sitting near the road, and both were previously parked closer to the home.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, identified as Gary Lynn Ryan II, was still in one of the vehicles, and the homeowner held him at gunpoint until law enforcement arrived. The sheriff&#8217;s office says the homeowner was &#8220;rightfully and lawfully armed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ryan was charged with theft by unlawful taking over $10,000, criminal mischief, marijuana possession and possession of drug paraphernalia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>0 \/ 1 \/ 0<br \/>\nThe rest of the article may be found here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wkyt.com\/content\/news\/Sheriff-Boyle-County-homeowner-holds-theft-suspect-at-gunpoint-before-deputies-arrive-512259601.html\">WKYT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s respectable count, Delta Whiskies and Whiskettes, stands at one-two-zero; for one mort, two inconvenienced, and none in the wind. So it goes.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>No Kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave.<br \/>\nJames Burgh <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Witnesses: Florida Man in Tuxedo Showed Up with Knife, Was Shot Dead by Ex-Employer in Self-Defense &hellip; <a title=\"Saturday Feel Good Stories\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=88666\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saturday Feel Good Stories<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feel-good-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88670,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88666\/revisions\/88670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}