What does this story say to you?

[vraiblonde]

Because to me it says a woman was being aggressive, picked a fight with another woman, and when that woman went inside a McDonalds to get away from her, she chased her inside to continue the fight. Manager ran her off, but she came back, attacked an employee, who shot and killed her.

North Carolina McDonald's employee shoots, kills woman after argument spills over into restaurant: police

Hendersonville, North Carolina police said a male employee at a McDonald's was arrested after shooting a woman after she caused a disturbance in the fast-food restaurant.

www.foxnews.com

Yet they're calling the woman who instigated all this "the victim". And are charging the employee with first-degree murder.

 

[SamSpade]

I don’t think the article intends to elicit sympathy for the woman who ultimately got shot by calling her a victim. It’s really the easiest word to use to say “the woman who got shot and we’re not saying her name”.

It’s the first degree charge that is stupid. I’m not a lawyer but as I understand it, first degree murder means the shooter planned to kill her and carried it out with malice afore thought. He couldn’t possibly have planned it and in all likelihood had never met her before.

I think people charge first degree murder because it carries the highest penalty but then they get all shocked when the defendant beats the charge because they couldn’t possibly have planned anything.