What Happened To Christobal Lopez?

The moment a man shoots another man at point blank range over a stolen item.

Florida man is killed by a Lakeland city commissioner. All over an apparent shoplifting incident.

The city politician shot and killed Chistobal Lopez at point blank range at a gun store. It was a ridiculous shooting of an unarmed suspect over theft.

Christopher Dunn, a city commissioner was seen wrestling with Lopez outside an entrance of a Vets Navy Surplus store in Lakeland.

Christobal Lopez

Lopez is seen trying to escape while Dunn is holding on to the arm. Dunn whips out a firearm and grabs Lopez again. As the man slips from the grip and exits the store, Dunn pulls the trigger and shoots him.

Lopez is seen falling to the ground on the pavement just outside the store.

Dunn claims Lopez stole a hatchet.

Dunn's lawyer believes that the shooting was justified because he believed his life was in danger.

The Lakeland Police and state prosecutors said that theft isn't a death sentence. From the video footage, it appears that Dunn should have let the guy escape and called the police. He choose to be a "judge-jury-executioner."

In Florida, a person is legally permitted to use deadly force "if he or she reasonably believes that using or threatening to use such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another or to prevent the imminent commission of a forcible felony."

This stand your ground law is ridiculous. To shoot a shoplifter is dumb. Dumb, period.

The shooting was caught on camera.

If you're not a police officer, you shouldn't even attempt to detain a shoplifter. The liability of injury or death is too great over property. For Dunn to shoot a man at point blank range over property shows people of color that white people can get away with murder.

Andrew Gillum and Ron DeSantis are running for governor of Florida. Gillum is leading in some polls but its still too close to call. The Republicans are going to pull out everything to prevent Gillum and Georgia Democratic nominee Stacey Abrams from winning governorships.

Gillum seems likely to support a repeal of the "stand your ground" laws.

Gillum and Bill Nelson will be better than DeSantis and Rick Scott.

Are you going to vote? (Expect the dumbest answers from trolls)

Yes. I'm voting Democrat.

Yes. I'm voting Republican.

No. I'm not voting.

The Republicans are fully engaged in the culture war.

The Republicans aren't talking about the economy. They rather rile you up over T.I. mocking Melania Trump in a music video. The Republicans aren't talking about building the wall. They rather talk about migrants from Honduras coming to the border so they can vote in the Midterm. The Republicans aren't talking about the stagnant wages of the middle class.

They rather focus on selectively edited videos from fraudster James O'Keefe. The Republicans promise to eliminate Medicare, Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act and the safety net to pay for the massive tax cuts they've passed last year.

They want to keep you distracted with relentless mocking of Maxine Waters, Hillary Clinton, David Hogg, Emma Gonzalez, Elizabeth Warren, Christine Blasey Ford, Stormy Daniels and Jamal Khashoggi.

The Republicans won't talk about Brett Kavanaugh. They rather talk about why it's important to have religious freedom laws.

Lakeland city commissioner Michael Dunn.

All of the rhetoric comes straight out of the tired playbook Rush Limbaugh, Sean "Softball" Hannity, The Drudge Report, Fox News and Breitbart gave to the Republicans.

In their last ditch effort to bring out the white voters, Republicans are going to throw the kitchen sink at the Democrats to prevent them from winning the House and Senate.

We got to be motivated to vote.

VOTE.

VOTE EARLY.

VOTE ABSENTEE BALLOT.

VOTE NOVEMBER 6, 2018.

Restore sanity in the United States. Under Donald J. Trump, life has been awful for people of color. Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell are worthless politicians who will do anything to protect the "status quo" and "white male privilege." The Republicans will win on the culture war. If we don't get off our asses and vote this Midterm, we will see the Republicans retain control of Congress.

Instead of protesting, we should register voters. Voting matters. There's no more talk about what I can do. It's about what I will do.