White man who gunned down black ex-NFL player in road rage case released without charges

[workinclasszero]

White man who gunned down black ex-NFL player in road rage case released without charges
Travis Gettys 02 DEC 2016 AT 10:29 ET

A man who shot and killed a former NFL player during an apparent road rage incident has been released without charges.

Joe McKnight, a former New Orleans high school star, was shot dead about 3 p.m. Thursday during an argument at an intersection in Terrytown, reported The Times-Picayune.

A witness said she saw a man, later identified as 54-year-old Ronald Gasser, yelling at the 28-year-old McKnight, who was attempting to apologize.

Witnesses said Gasser, who is white, pulled McKnight, who is black, from his Audi, argued with him and then shot him more than once as he stood over him.

“I told you not to f*ck with me,” Gasser said, before firing once more at McKnight as he lay on the ground.

McKnight, who last played in the NFL in 2014, was pronounced dead at the scene.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/white-man-who-gunned-down-black-ex-nfl-player-in-road-rage-case-released-without-charges/

[Kittycow]

1. How can this stand? I'm sick.

[yeoman6987]

5. I just listened to the sheriff

The procedures are strict. The sheriff sounds like a tough no nonsense type. I don't see any crap going on here with this investigstion. Seems like it will be above board. The guardian who raised the football player was on the force.

[mainer]

2. This is an outrage.

I didn't even need to look at the shooter's photo. I knew he had to be white.

[GummyBearz]

11. Welcome to the club

Where everyone knows the race of the culprit from the headline. Of course many were massively wrong with the san bernidino shooters among others.

[MrScorpio]

3. Welcome to America

Where it's always been open season on black people

[MFM008]

28. And there will eventually

Be rioting and burning and death before maggot is through.

[SQUEE]

4. Witnesses said Gasser, who is white, pulled McKnight, who is black, from his Audi,

Um..

a 54 year old guy pulled a 28 year old Football player from his car?


I think there may be more to that story. Witnesses are notoriously poor of late.

Still I wonder how quickly NO police would have released a shooter in a reverse situation. I wager not in hours.

[yeoman6987]

6. Lol. Wrong. That totally didn't happen according to investigators.

[SQUEE]

7. Brass was in car according to news cast...

Plot thickens

[yeoman6987]

9. We have a long way to go I believe

[GWC58]

12. If at all!

Same shit, different day! This is not right. Then again it's never right. This behavior sickens me. I must apologize for my race!😫

[philosslayer]

13. Easy to do if you're holding a gun on him

n/t

[SQUEE]

14. And that doesn't fit the facts now coming out...

n/t

[IronLionZion]

19. It's not hard to pull someone from a car

when one has a gun and the other doesn't.

Let's not get so hung up on the word "pull", that we ignore that he shot him multiple times in the head then shot him once more as he lay on the ground to execute him dead in a fit of rage.

Anytime someone gets released by police immediately after executing someone dead, the story is not about age or physical fitness. it's a reminder of whose life matters.

You don't need to have a gun to be executed publicly.

Trump's election win is the answer to all your questions.

[SQUEE]

21. What a vivid story

Where are you getting that..




I am hung up on facts, please cite your source.

The facts seem to be 180 degrees away from your fairy tale.

[IronLionZion]

23. Joe McKnight must have died of old age at 28

Why is he dead? How did bullets get inside him? These are life's mysteries.

Witnesses said Gasser, who is white, pulled McKnight, who is black, from his Audi, argued with him and then shot him more than once as he stood over him.

“I told you not to f*ck with me,” Gasser said, before firing once more at McKnight as he lay on the ground.

McKnight, who last played in the NFL in 2014, was pronounced dead at the scene.

[SQUEE]

24. So... You're source is the OP?

The OP does not say anything you claim happened.

The reports tell a far different story than your tale of rage and murder..
Why is that?

Witness said... What witness said he was shot in the head, and then anchored?

No reputable source has your story, none.

Links please..

[JonLP24]

25. That was the story initial sources reported

http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2016/12/terrytown_murder_jpso.html

Cops are telling a different story knowing how corrupt policing is in that area I'm not sure about their claims.

Let's see Glasser shoots Mcknight over an apparent road rage, gets to check his gun in, is released. That sounds about white.

[SQUEE]

26. So.. reports that state.. No head wounds, brass in car and crime scene photos

OR a vivid story of rage and wrath...

Who you gonna believe?

[JonLP24]

27. If they are standing near the cars

Brass can fly up to 10 feet and I would like to see crime scene photos.

has been released from custody after questioning. The Jefferson Parish sheriff’s department said they could see no reason to hold him. “Authorities said [McKnight] got in an argument with Gasser on a highway in the suburb of Terrytown and was shot outside his vehicle,” according to NBC News.

(Snip)

A witness, who was leaving a nearby store on Thursday afternoon, told the Times-Picayune that she saw a man believed to be Gasser yelling at McKnight near the intersection of Beherman Highway and Holmes Boulevard. Their cars—Gasser’s blue Infinity and McKnight’s silver Audi SUV—were seen parked side-by-side at a traffic light. McKnight was standing next to his car trying to defuse the situation and apologize, she said, when Gasser, who was yelling, shot him.

(Snip)

Video of the aftermath shows paramedics attempting to revive McKnight but, by then, it was too late. A woman’s voice called out from behind the camera.

“It could have been any one of us,” she can be heard saying. “That man just got out and shot that man.”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/12/02/ronald-glasser-shot-unarmed-joe-mcknight-hours-later-the-police-released-him.html

Why is a story of rage and murder so hard to believe? It happened to Will Smith. Why else did he shoot him?

[NobodyHere]

29. Unnamed witness are always reliable right?

The "witness" is probably someone trying to stir shit up.

[IronLionZion]

35. I want to believe why Ronald Gasser is still alive

when many unarmed people have been shot and killed by police

Road happiness leads to singing and whistling. Shooting someone to death without rage sounds like some cold blooded calculating stuff.

If it wasn't rage, then what was it? A calm rational peaceful execution?

I will always believe people who don't know it's wrong to shoot someone.

[IronLionZion]

34. Ask Joe Mcknight, let's ask him why he died

Why are liberals excusing murder? Unarmed person gets shot dead by a person with a gun. Why?

Why was there shooting?

[SQUEE]

36. More suppositions. There has not been a finding of murder.

It is at this moment a homicide... I am not excusing anything, but I am not convicting anyone of anything either..


Why was there shooting? Don't know.

Why did it take you this long to ask, as opposed to coming in here and spreading disinformation, conjecture and bigotry.Let's let the facts come out and go from there.

[IronLionZion]

42. What facts?

Armed person shoots unarmed person enough times to kill him. Shooter gets released by police.

What crime did the deceased commit to justify it? Where was his trial and evidence?

You don't seem to think there's anything wrong with killing someone.

[Yo_Mama]

32. Except the evidence proves that this witness was lying.

http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2016/12/ronald_gasser_joe_mcknight_sho.html

You can ignore it if you wish to, but then don't expect other people to ignore it.

Yes, it is a suspicious death under investigation, but the facts are not what you claim them to be.

[HughBeaumont]

8. Well, you know, because of course he is.

[linuxman]

10. A 54 year old man pulled a 28 Year old NFL player out of his car?

This is going to be interesting.

[uponit7771]

15. With a gun on him? yeah

[linuxman]

16. We'll see.

For now, I'm skeptical. I'll catch shit for it, but I'm cool with that.

[uponit7771]

17. Well, I am a wait and see also... a lot of times people don't get the benefit of the doubt and

... sometimes we're quick to make conclusions.

The NC shit was as expected as soon as the DA said there's no clear vid of a gun in the guys hand I said fuck that but what can we do but take their words for it... dead folk tell no tales.

[NobodyHere]

22. And Gasser apparently dragged McKnight over to Gasser's car

Got in and then fired the shots that killed McKnight as the casings were found in the car.

[Yo_Mama]

31. Yeah, of course this did not happen, as was proved by autopsy.

People really should not believe everything they hear.

Note that if what the witness had said had been consistent with the physical evidence and the autopsy, the guy would be in a jail cell right now.

[Initech]

18. Thanks NRA!!!

Because of your 2nd amendment or nothing policy, this innocent football player was killed and nothing is going to happen! Go fuck yourselves!

[NobodyHere]

20. You know what's fun?

Let's assume this is all about race even before the investigation is done!

[Yo_Mama]

30. The witness is completely wrong about what happened.

So quoting the discredited witness is rather inappropriate, although until the autopsy and other forensics was done, I suppose that's all the press had.

http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2016/12/ronald_gasser_joe_mcknight_sho.html

This still doesn't mean that there will not be charges, but whatever happened is not what this witness said. Right now it doesn't appear they have enough to charge him. Right now.

[JonLP24]

41. Coroners are elected there

I'd take what they say, especially NO coroners with a grain of salt.

I'd check out Post Mortem on Frontline.

[MadLinguist]

33. Gasser has a road rage history

I don't see why he is walking around now
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2016/12/joe_mcknights_shooter_was_cite.html

[JonLP24]

38. Great find

The man who shot and killed Joe McKnight was cited a decade ago after a road rage incident in which he allegedly beat another man on the same intersection where he shot McKnight on Thursday, authorities said.

Ronald Gasser was issued a misdemeanor summons for simple battery in the Feb. 20, 2006 incident, after a man said Gasser attacked him and beat him with his fist, the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office said. The charge was ultimately dismissed, but will be reviewed again now, JPSO said in a press release.

http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2016/12/joe_mcknights_shooter_was_cite.html

[Sorceress]

43. Boom! History of road rage.

[lou ky dem]

37. New York Times account

I longer and more detailed report. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/02/sports/football/suspect-in-killing-of-joe-mcknight-former-jets-player-is-freed-without-charge.html?_r=0

[JonLP24]

39. I like how he is threatening to arrest protesters

But not Gasser.

[Cha]

40. This is unreal, working! :( RIP Joe McKnight Gonna be much easier when his killer is brought to

Justice!


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✔ ?@nyjets
Rest in peace, Joe McKnight.
Our thoughts and condolences are with his loved ones.
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