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So the jury feels an elderly retired cop is entitled to shoot and kill a man because he had his cell phone light on in the theater? They have to live with the fact that they set a murderer free. With all the witness testimony and evidence he should have been found guilty. I would love to hear why these jurors thought he wasn't

He probably shouldn't of brought his gun to the moves. Over a dumb cell phone? He was texting not talking, and the movie don't start. Crazy. That ex cop had too much anger.

You mean to tell me that a man who was so many years in very dangerous situations with criminals, was scared of a person who was not armed, who was with his family ?, he felt he was in panic ? Are you kidding me? He is guilty as hell 💯.

He WAS a hot head and shot Chad and got away with murder! Pretty sad!

This was murder. He got away with this🤬

The victim will never walk HIS daughter down the aisle. A guilty man just walked out of the courtroom scott free. The jurors should be ashamed of themselves. Disgusting,

He got away with murder. He was a hot head old retired cop who pulled the “I was scared for my life card”

If this was what he was willing to do in a movie theater. I can only imagine what he got away with while he was on the force.

Watched the whole trial and I still can't believe he got away with it.

This was a shameful jury decision … legalized murder 😡

Who brings a pistol to the theatre! This describes the word “overkill” perfectly! Guilty!

I definitely agree the defendant didn't like that the younger guy didn't listen to him I watched this trial and this one made me mad I believe the defendant is truly guilty

The “monster standing there” was the old guy who shot the man dead

An absolute disgrace!! God love the victims loved ones 😞

This guy is completely guilty & it is disgraceful & a grave miscarriage of justice! How can the jury allow this kind of behaviour, ending in the loss of life, to go unpunished? This sends out a very dangerous message that even a completely irrelevant conflict can have a fatal outcome &, if the perpetrator just claims self-defence, they will be acquitted. The fact that the victim may or may not have sworn at Reeves is also completely irrelevant & absolutely ridiculous to even bring it up as justification for Reeves to shoot him. What next???

The jury discounted the testimony from so many witnesses but agreed with the so-called defense experts who were not in the theater. He was 100% guilty.

This is unbelievable! He got away with murder. I just don’t understand why anyone would take a gun to the movies. I don’t understand the gun culture in the US.

I still can't accept he got away with murder. Sickening 😢 Curtis Reeves is a POS

This might be a crazier verdict than OJ's

That's ridiculous, he got away with murder!

Regardless of who was the party to blame here, all that situation is one of the many reasons why I do not go to movie theaters anymore. Too many noisy, rude and annoying people when I can watch the movie at home on a large TV and good speakers. Not the same experience but the pros and cons are very clear to me.

Not to mention his wife was shot in the hand with the bullet that MURDERED her husband!!!

I worry about juries. They get it crazy wrong so often. Instead of seeing an “elderly man with a cane” in front of them, they should consider he’s a long-time LEO who has 30 or so years of having people do exactly as they’re told when and how they’re told … who was armed at a movie theater: A man who seriously over reacted bc: A) the guy had his cell phone out in the theater (RUDE: some people actually enjoy the previews, take your FB and all-important texting out to the lobby = zero incident 🤦🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️👍🏼) B) the retired, but always a, LEO gave a direct order C) that command was ignored D) the “perpetrator” (in the mind of the retired LEO) gave hime some guff… Bang. Everyone from the theater who testified said “you’re gonna throw POPCORN at ME?!!! “ or some iteration of that, proves the old man was furious not frightened; was posturing not petrified… Juries seem to be incapable of finding little old men and “mothers” guilty of anything when in fact, they’re just as dangerous as any other murderer.

What was he doing with a gun in the cinema 😮 shame on them jurors 😮 this wasn't self fkn defence it was about power and respect 😮

He was just angry and felt he was rhe law

That cop and his lawyers got lucky with a not too bright Jury, cos we have seen other juries use critical thinking and get it right.

The victims wife was a liar but her husband wasn’t a monster and I can’t believe that retired cop wasn’t convicted of murder!!!!! 😡 Outrageous he pulled a gun out for popcorn 🍿 throwing! The one case that had no justice 🤦‍♀️😢 left me gutted!

This is happening way way way to much then they plead guilty to insanity 😡

this veredict is so hard to understand, can´t accept it. That man is guilty AF

OJ, Casey Anthony and this guy... all so guilty yet got away with it 😡

Terrible verdict

I watched movie today, and watching this made me think twice if I’m going to a movie house again…I believed nobody should be allowed to bring a gun in the theater for whatever reasons..

Shame on those jurors!!!

Surprised that he didn’t say (or maybe I missed it) that not only was he afraid for HIS life but ALSO the life of his wife. It certainly would have lent more credibility to his story.

I watched the entire trial, jury instructions and everything. Not this 44min heavily (cough...biased)edited snippet. The jury was correct. The state had to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr Reeves was not in fear of death or serious bodily injury of himself or others. He had no duty to retreat and that could not be considered. The state did not meet their burden.

Who tf he thinks he is the dang movie cop? You can ask someone but you don't kill for some popcorn, this jury just looking at him as an old man that's all..

Karma is a ...female dog. The jury should be ashamed and scared for the lives of their loved ones. I pray none of them throw popcorn or confetti to someone or they'll end up dead AND their murderer will go free to kill another day.

If Mr Reeves was so scared, he wouldn't have continued inserting himself into the situation. I think letting him go on living his life for 8 years before going to court should have been criminal, he comes into court almost a decade older than when he was at the time of the incident, I think that allowed defense to present him as a doddering old man

He’s an old murder

😂😂Hi ! Former Police officer ,no wonder !! "Back to Blue ,till it happens to you" !!

This is crazy, guilty guilty guilty, no doubt, shows that there are OJ jury's out there still, some people that do not follow the law and evidence, a person who holds a firearm should be more responsible than ordinary person especially if your in law enforcement.

I cannot believe he was found not guilty!😮 I really thought they were going to find him guilty, I think they probably got this wrong.

He got away with murder. Sickening. Hope he’s. Enjoying life

I wonder who looks like a monster in this story mister angry cop

The younger man showed he had a HOT temper, NO need to get in a 81 yr old face over a cell phone. These days you never know what these younger people are willing to do. They have no respect

Disgraceful! old and being a retired police officer is a ticket to anything you want to do. Why does an old man have a gun. the day he forgets things and starts to shoot where ever he wants and who ever he wants and when that day comes and it will, I pray none of the juries family is there because that decision to set him free may come back to haunt them.

Let me get this right, the guy was scared of a piece of popcorn? Got it.

Yep. Florida is sick.

Who names these trials? Why can't it be the Chad Oulson murder trial? He was the victim here. When you give these trials names other than who they are about you disrespect the victim. These victims need to be remembered, and not by some silly name given to the case trial.

I watched this trial and thought something important was missed because of the poor imagining. Based on timing I don't believe Reeves had time to reach into his pants and withdraw the gun, as he said. I think he possibly already had the gun out, in his lap. I don't know if this would have changed the outcome of the trial. My hunch is consistent with comments by others who recounted hostile encounters with Reeves, one declaring he was intent on shooting someone.

Jury got this one wrong

The jurors should be charged with being idiots.

Guilty

Our judicial system is severely broken

8 years to trial???

Curtis reeves looks like the type of person who goes round looking for a fight.

Why do you make the family of the guy killed be only affected by the gunman? Their husband/father could have also stepped down. Would love to have known why the father didn’t say “sorry let me put my phone away” or just step out into the lobby. Better yet have left his phone in the car then he wouldn’t be died. And as you pointed out, his daughter would have a father.

So… do we start carrying glocks in movie theaters? Asking for a friend 🤔

Wow! This is absolutely crazy! Can’t believe he got off! I am so very grateful I live in a country where I can go anywhere and the chances are extremely slim to none that I’ll get shot. Even if I ever had reason to throw popcorn at someone or a mobile phone for that matter! 🤷🏻‍♀️ Not that I’d do that but here you can have an argument, stand up for yourself or say what might need to be said and you’re not going to get shot! No one is going to movie theatres or shopping malls or getting fuel or going anywhere with a gun on them, my nerves wouldn’t cope 🫣

Ex cop gets away with murder after waiting 6 years for a trial. There I fixed the title for you.

This wasnt self defense. No way. There was no threat to his life.

I hope she sues him and wins, he should be in prison, his wife and him went on tv no remorse terrible

Who takes a gun into a movie theater anyway? Too dam many armed hotheads walking around today.

He should have been convicted!

the jury got this damn wrong

I watched this trial. That old man has no business having a gun and he should have been sent to prison. This was not a justified death or shooting for that matter

I think he was quilty of killing her husband.Shooting a gun in a movie theater is not right. I'm so sorry . RIP

He was guilty as sin!

Jury, i hope You are ashamed off yourselves!!!

38:39 he is walking thru the courtroom... just carrying the cane as a prop...He is not using it as a cane.. it is not touching the ground.

Nasty old crow got away with murder

prosecutors lost this case. guy got away with murder 💯

This is total BS , How the heck can you fear for your life with popcorn flying at you. This stand your ground Law is ridiculous. Regarding this case. Further more imagine his career as a cop ....what did he get away with then. Hmmm

So wrong!! Chad will never be able to walk his daughter down the aisle!!!

This retired policeman shows NO remorse or regret over the murder. A child lost her dad. The wife is traumatized for life. I think this guy is a sociopath. The victim was also behaving badly, but his crime was throwing popcorn. Men do get testy when other macho guys throw their weight around, and this defendant goaded him. He knew that he could act with impunity. Such a cold blooded crime supports the general fear and mistrust of the police.

😢unbelievable

Except a witness heard "throw popcorn at me" after he shot him

He should have been found guilty.

Disappointing but not surprising. They were never going to find him guilty. Many of them probably identified with him as a grandfatherly type, someone who reminded them of their own grandpa. And, they likely felt, their grandfather would never hurt anyone maliciously. Certainly never kill anyone like this old man was accused of. Also, the very fact that he's old sometimes deters juries from putting someone behind bars for the rest of their lives. Most people don't want to put elderly people behind bars or they think there's no point because they're so old they probably only have a few years left. He probably won't do it again after all this, right? So, what's the point? That kind of thing. It's too bad, but I never expected him to be convicted. He was always going to get to walk his daughter down the aisle at her wedding. His victim will never get to do that for his daughter, though.

Had he been a YOUNG man, that jury would have found him GUILTY!! He was obviously an arrogant, aggressive, large (at 6’2”), hot tempered, old man who showed NO remorse and it’s a travesty that he got away with murder because of his age!!😡 That said, at 79, he’ll have to answer to our maker soon, and our GOD is a JUST God who KNOWS what his TRUE intentions were, and with no repentance, there’s a special place in H*LL reserved for this callous, hot-headed old man!!

Wrong verdict

Jury got it right 💯 . this is what happens when the ppl want the right to carry arms. I hate guns but I truly feel the old guy was scared.

The trial was excellent. Horrendously sad, and imo totally avoidable. Both parties over reacted to each other and it escalated.

How about I'm sorry for using the phone. Let's all watch a movie now. Could have been different.

That SYG law is so flawed. Just because something scares you, that shouldn't give you the right to shoot someone unarmed....but I guess it does.

Till this day i will never understand that verdict he really got away with murder

The officer may have thought he may get shot during the victim was throwing the popcorns. They are trained people. They leather and faced too many risks.

Y'all are kiddin right?

I watched this trial....the retired police captain got away with murder....so sad....

Chad Olsen reached over to the defendant, then grabbed and tossed his popcorn on the ground. That is bold!

That man got away with murder. 😢

Another cop getting off with MURDER!

How can you take a gun to the movie ? The old man react out of proportion ...

Moral of the story. When you go to a movie, watch the movie. If you want to use your cellphone, use it outside, switch it off then return to your seat and do what you came for - not to disturb others but to watch a movie.

Retired cop ignored the sign, ‘no guns’ he took the law into his own hands & murdered a man. Justice was not served

This is an outrageous miscarriage of justice. In that moment, Reeves was an angry person who shot because he felt disrespected. -A former cop with a "shoot first, ask questions later" mentality.

I know someone like the "popcorn thrower." If people like this can't control their behaviors and reactions, it is bound to happen. Back off, be humble, and protect your wife and children.

Was the popcorn loaded with butter & salt? Statistics has shown that is unhealthy even deadly. This was justified self defense. Had salad been tossed, murder.

Why didn’t the younger couple just move seats -