"Certainly pulling a gun on someone who just asks a question has no weapon is not appropriate,” said Murfreesboro police Sergeant Kyle Evans. “There was no reason for her to perceive any legitimate threat.”
McLain was arrested and charged with aggravated assault and reckless endangerment — and she’s not happy about it. After all, as the NRA, Fox News, and right-wing politicians have likely been telling her for years, she was simply protecting herself from a “bad guy”:
Scared White Lady Pulls Gun On Black Man For Asking To Use Lighter From 10 Feet Away (VIDEO)
A Tennessee woman, who almost assuredly is “not racist,” was arrested for pulling a gun on a black man in a Walmart parking lot after he made the mistake of assuming she was the sort of person who would allow him to use her lighter to spark up a cigarette. Sherry McLain says she feared for her life, but authorities say that there was never any reason for her to fear when she was approached by her would-be victim.
“It scared me absolutely to death,” said McLain, who maintains that when she recklessly pulled out her firearm. She says she was loading groceries into her car in a crowded Walmart parking lot at around 4 p.m. Saturday. She says she was startled when a strange man approached her and began “hollering behind her.” Refusing to be a victim like a good little NRA acolyte, McClain pulled her weapon, but she says it was not enough to stop the hulking and scary 52-year-old black man from bothering her — James Crutchfield, she says, continued to approach her even after her weapon was drawn and she had told him to stop. McLain says that Crutchfield then moved away from her, toward another woman who was with a child “still hollering.”
To hear her tell her harrowing tale, she was lucky to escape the encounter with her life, but security footage, surely manufactured by the lamestream media to demonize gun owners, Crutchfield (surely a liar) and victims, who were likely paid off by one liberal cabal or another to lie about the situation, tell a different story.
Crutchfield did, indeed, approach her. He had just purchased a pack of cigarettes and forgot a lighter — one of the many downfalls of being a smoker. He says that the woman “immediately” pulled her gun on him and began screaming. And, of course, he did run — run — to another woman who did, indeed, have a child. The witness tells police that Crutchfield frantically approached her, yelling that McLain had a gun — one she was now pointing at Crutchfield, the witness, and the witness’ child. After asking her to call police, she says Crutchfield ran back into the store.
According to police, the video shows Crutchfield walking past McLain, then turning toward her — but not making any threatening gestures whatsoever. When she pulled her gun, the police report says Crutchfield put his hands in the air then walking backwards, away from the genuine threat. McLain then lowers her gun until her quarry reached the woman and child, then again pointed the gun in the direction of what would be three victims. Authorities and witnesses say Crutchfield never got within 10 feet of McLain.
Other witnesses confirmed that this was not a scenario in which a gun, which McLain purchased, owned, and carried legally, was needed. “Clearly this is a gunowner who doesn’t need to own a gun,” said one witness, who explained that McLain uttered the chilling phrase, “I’m going to shoot you. I’m going to kill you,” as she took aim at the black man, children, and others.
“Certainly pulling a gun on someone who just asks a question has no weapon is not appropriate,” said Murfreesboro police Sergeant Kyle Evans. “There was no reason for her to perceive any legitimate threat.”
McLain was arrested and charged with aggravated assault and reckless endangerment — and she’s not happy about it. After all, as the NRA, Fox News, and right-wing politicians have likely been telling her for years, she was simply protecting herself from a “bad guy”:
“I have never been so afraid of anything in my whole life I don’t think. This guy is the bad guy and I’m the one in handcuffs walking away.”
The problem with the NRA’s “good guy with a gun”/”bad guy with a gun” paradigm is that the two look exactly the same until someone like McLain — who considers herself to be the “good guy” — rips off their mask and reveals themselves to be the “bad guy,” like on an episode of Scooby Doo. Recently, this confusion presented an issue when Colorado’s lax gun laws led to a 911 caller being lectured on open carry when she reported a potential shooter rather than a police response. That gunman shot three people to death moments later.
Unfortunately, America’s “responsible gun owners” think of themselves as God’s chosen protectors and until that changes, the world is a much more dangerous place for the rest of us — especially, it seems, if we need to light a cigarette and have a skin tone darker than an unroasted marshmallow.
Watch McLain whine about how she is being oppressed, below:
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