Man using racist slurs killed in Waffle House fight in Georgia, police say

[jpak]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-using-racist-slurs-killed-waffle-house-fight-georgia-police-n1076411

JACKSON, Ga. — The Georgia Bureau of Investigation says a man was shot to death at a Waffle House after calling other patrons racist slurs and starting a fight.

The GBI says Butts County deputies responded Halloween night to three 911 calls that were minutes apart. The first reported an angry customer, the second reported a fight and a third reported shots had been fired.

Responding deputies found 27-year-old Nicholas Phinazee Bryan mortally wounded. An investigation determined that Bryan "was using racial slurs" toward 36-year-old Robert Lewis Henderson Jr. and 39-year-old Antonio DeMarty Evans. Waffle House staff told Bryan to leave. Then their argument became physical. Police say Henderson fired a single shot at Bryan, who later died at a hospital.

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[Flaleftist]

1. Play stupid games win stupid prizes.

[CaptYossarian]

2. It must be difficult to get blood out of that sheet you're wearing.

Just bury him in it.

[Nevilledog]

3. Killed on Halloween, at a Waffle House, in Butts County.

Seems like a fitting end.

[LuvNewcastle]

17. And his middle name was Phinazee!

Something tells me he was a product of unfortunate parentage.

[Nevilledog]

25. Ahhh. A family tree with no limbs.

[tblue37]

53. That is a family surname--his uncle's last name. (Info from an article linked below.) nt

[BannonsLiver]

4. Works for me.

[cwydro]

5. DU is so funny.

Guns are bad until something like this, then posters seem thrilled that someone used a gun to silence name calling. Smh.

[DavidDvorkin]

6. Exactly

It's more than disturbing.

[cwydro]

10. Yes, it is.

This place is extremely hypocritical at times.

[Arkansas Granny]

7. +1

[lunatica]

8. The thing about DU is that it isn't cookie cutter driven

Two or three people having a particular opinion isn’t groupthink.

[cwydro]

11. Oh, give it time.

I’ve seen this before.

[skypilot]

13. Actually...

...there isn't enough info in this short article to say that a gun was used just to silence name calling. The name calling led to a fight according to this article. No way to know how bad the fight was, how big the name caller was, what, exactly, he did or tried to do in the moments before he was shot. Just not enough info.

[LuvNewcastle]

19. Yeah, I don't like people carrying guns around

to go eat at the Waffle House, but if someone starts a physical altercation with another person who happens to be armed, I can understand why the belligerent one would get shot. As long as the gun owner was within his rights to carry a gun legally, I think this was a simple case of self defense.

[BannonsLiver]

14. Yeah

It turns out people here don’t like violent racists. Does anyone have any pearls I can clutch?

[cwydro]

15. He was violent? Did he have a gun?

We don’t know, do we?

But good, he’s dead from a gun.

Good to know where people stand on gun violence here. Yup.

[Skittles]

18. agreed

regardless of the racism, this is just another example of a gun being used to settle what should have been a fistfight

[GulfCoast66]

42. When was the last time you were in a fist fight?

College for me. It could have gone bad. Luckily no one died. Because life is not the movies. A fist to the head from a large man can easily kill you.

Listen, I don’t support easy concealed carry laws. Not everyone should be Able to walk around with guns.

And I support very stringent laws on all semi-automatic firearms

But if it is legal the people I most wanting to be able to legally carry are African Americans

[Skittles]

43. it's been some time

I attacked a drunken guy who grabbed my ass - I made him very sorry he did that, INDEED

[SoCalNative]

22. You're right

some of us would have preferred that they beat him to death.

[John Fante]

27. I guess you zipped past the part where dead racist started an altercation.

Where does it say he was shot solely for using racist slurs?

[USALiberal]

29. Thanks for this! nt

[SMC22307]

30. Yeah. Here's his obit. Young father, evidently.

https://www.conner-westburyfuneralhome.com/tributes/Nicholas-Bryan

I have no idea exactly what went down at Waffle House but agree about the use of the gun.

[Blue_true]

33. Yes. I am disappointed to.

The situation covers things that we have tended to have concerns about, many guns in society and using "stand your ground" as a legal defense after shooting someone. To see people basically celebrating the use of both because a racist asshole ended up dead is disconcerting.

[Polybius]

40. There are lot's of hypocrites

Same with those calling Bevin a crybaby and sore loser for asking for a recount. If we had lost by 5,000 votes, the same people would be asking for one.

[bluecollar2]

9. Stand your ground will be revisited in Georgia...n/t

[JustAnotherGen]

12. I can't find out anything about right before it happened

The Bigot (I'm calling him that because generally those folks are found to use racial slurs) was in an altercation and was told to leave.

He didn't.

I wonder if the shooter will claim a stand your ground defense? It's GA.

[Blue_true]

34. Since the news said something physical happened before he was shot, my

guess stand your ground will be claimed. That is sad, people are too quick to shoot instead of saying "man, I have a gun in my hand, calm down and let's talk this out". A person should shoot first only if the other person has a knife or gun, or other weapon that can do serious harm.

[BlueStater]

16. For all we know, he could have been violent and the two men were just defending themselves.

Not much detail in the article.

[cwydro]

21. But we don't know that, do we?

Let’s not make up facts before we know them.

[NCjack]

20. Bryan should at least be nominated for the Darwin Award, if he has no children. nt

[Blue_true]

35. He had a 6 year old daughter. nt

[roamer65]

46. Typical racist right winger. Thinks of himself first, rather than the daughter.

If he were putting his daughter first, he would have kept his stupid, inbred yap shut.

[Blue_true]

47. Yes. But if he was unarmed, did he need to die?

One of the issues that I have with stand your ground laws is they place almost no requirement on a person holding a gun to exercise restraint if the other person is unarmed (even an unarmed racist asshole).

Since the shooter was Black and the dead man a young White man, it would be interested how this turns out in a stand your ground state. I believe those laws allow a person to shoot a third person to protect a friend who is being attacked, which looked like the case in this situation. The shooter and the guy who was fighting with the dead man were not arrested on the spot, they turned themselves in after the Georgia State Police issued a summons for their arrest - I wonder whether this was done in other cases where the shooter was White?

[Goodheart]

23. I'm probably in the minority here, but I don't think it's justified to fatally shoot somebody

for using the n word.

[TeamPooka]

24. not all liberals are pacifists.

[jberryhill]

26. I blame the other patrons

...for not pulling out their cellphones and recording it.

[underpants]

51. Butts County

Killed at a Waffle House in Butts County.

[PupCamo]

28. tots and pears

[struggle4progress]

31. 2 arrested in death of man

6 hours ago
By Asia Simone Burns, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

... Robert Lewis Henderson Jr. and Antonio DeMarty Evans turned themselves in to the Butts County Sheriff’s Office about 9 a.m. Wednesday, the GBI said in a news release.

GBI agents obtained warrants Tuesday accusing the men in the death of Nicholas Phinazee Bryan, who was shot Friday at the restaurant in the 3200 block of Ga. 36 in Jackson, AJC.com previously reported.

Police were called three times in reference to the incident at the restaurant, the GBI said. The first call was made over an angry customer, the second was over a fight and the last call reported shots had been fired ...

Bryan was asked to leave the Waffle House by staff, but instead a physical altercation ensued between Bryan and Evans, according to the GBI. Henderson allegedly shot Bryan ...

https://www.ajc.com/news/crime--law/breaking-arrested-death-man-who-allegedly-used-racial-slurs-during-waffle-house-fight/WYjCjorg15ocJXqPHamyaM/#

[Blue_true]

36. How is Georgia's stand you ground law written?

I thought that the law says that if a person seriously fear for the safety of another person, a gun can be used and stand your ground evoked. So if the second Black guy feared for the life of the first Black guy and shot the man, wouldn't that be covered under the letter of Georgia's law?

I honestly think that he should not have shot the guy, just told him that he had a gun and to get away. But the same can be said in most stand your ground cases where an unarmed person who was not doing a property invasion is killed.

[Iggo]

32. Gunfuckers gonna gunfuck.

[WestIndianArchie]

37. He got what he deserved.

His desire to speak and behave as a degenerate racist white supremacist terrorist has been neutralized.

[tritsofme]

38. Who else...in your estimation...deserves summary execution?

Just curious?

[WestIndianArchie]

41. Curious??

My post seems to be pretty clear. Terrorist both foreign and DOMESTIC should be dealt with harshly and most expeditiously. Got it?

[Dorian Gray]

49. Jesus

This applied to the world explains a lot of evil actions.

The guy was an asshole. He didn't DESERVE to DIE.

The people who shot him might actually have a legal defense if he physically attacked them.

But reliance on guns and violence to solve problems is a HUGE problem in our society. It's just... yuck.

[WestIndianArchie]

52. Guns? Violence?

Until the world begins to take steps to solve the filthy, savage and degenerate system of racism white supremacy there will never be peace or justice. Therefore guns and violence are a symptom of a deeper social ill (racism white supremacy)

[roamer65]

44. One less racist carbon footprint.

Buh bye. Zero sympathy.

[dalton99a]

45. But he will always be remembered by his love of EVERYone!

What a fucking lie

https://www.conner-westburyfuneralhome.com/tributes/Nicholas-Bryan

[NCLefty]

48. A heavily-armed populace has no use for police.

[Hortensis]

50. 27? Sad, but maybe he hasn't reproduced. So many already have.

And the tragedy continues.