Florida Dunkin’ employee who fatally
punched customer over racial slur sentenced
to house arrest
Fox News,
by
David Aaro
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
3/9/2022 9:27:07 AM
A Dunkin’ employee in Tampa, Florida, accused of fatally punching a customer who used a racial slur against him last year, was sentenced to two years of house arrest after pleading guilty to felony battery. Corey Pujols, 27, was ordered by a Tampa judge on Monday to complete 200 hours of community service and attend an anger management course.(Snip)According to court records, the customer, Vonelle Cook, 77, who was white, had gone through the drive-thru to order coffee and was angry over the lack of service. While in the drive-thru, Dunkin’ employees had trouble hearing him, and he started to yell at them about poor service.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Newtsche 3/9/2022 9:32:51 AM (No. 1094702)
Yet oddly Corey Pujols remains who he is, maybe moreso.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 3/9/2022 9:38:20 AM (No. 1094705)
That should be worth at least a decade in prison. This is WRONG.
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Corey should be spending time in the Big House. Let him try punching some of those inmates. Some of those guys be very large and cranky themselves. I don't care what the old guy was, punching customers to death is not how to handle something.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 3/9/2022 10:23:47 AM (No. 1094781)
Guess since the old guy used a racial slur that justifies the sentence. Pujols openly got away with murder.
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"Grayson Kamm, a spokesman for Hillsborough State Attorney Andrew Warren, said prosecutors, in their decision, considered the “totality of the circumstances,” which included Pujols’ lack of criminal history, his youth, and the fact that he did not intend to cause Cook’s death, the Tampa Bay Times reported.
COMMENT: Youth? At age 27 you are an adult. Did not intend to cause Cook's death? Not an element of the offense of manslaughter (and Derek Chauvin did not intend George Floyd to die either, but he was prosecuted for murder. So Cook was not a "sympathetic victim"? Was George Floyd, based on his own history of criminal conduct?).
“Two of the primary factors were the aggressive approach the victim took toward the defendant and everyone working with the defendant, and that the victim repeatedly used possibly the most aggressive and offensive term in the English language,” Kamm said.
COMMENT: Verbal "aggression" is quite different from physical aggression. "Most offensive term in the English language" is not a legal judgment, but a personal and political one that, even if true, does not justify physical violence. If it did, people playing rap music would be fair game for physical attack.
The prosecution clearly rolled over, for political reasons.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 3/9/2022 10:30:30 AM (No. 1094798)
I don't ever use racial slurs, but I do have the ability to defend myself effectively from violent trash like this one. I hope he runs into another 'old guy' and he thinks he can do this again, and finds some instant justice.
There is no justice in this judge.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
bpl40 3/9/2022 10:35:24 AM (No. 1094809)
Just compare these circumstances (totality of the case!) to the Trayvon Martin case and you will see the bias and the injustice!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
slipstik 3/9/2022 10:35:44 AM (No. 1094810)
Black lives truly matter. Whites can go scratch.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 3/9/2022 12:09:26 PM (No. 1094928)
So a 77 year old used a racial slur. Not like he was in an early state of dementia where people lose social filters. Oh, and Dementia is considered a disease. Not saying the guy had dementia, but sure sounds like it. Notice they didn't say this type of behavior was noticed by the REGULAR customer. Just another day for our Two Tier Just-Us system.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Laotzu 3/9/2022 12:21:24 PM (No. 1094951)
Compare and contrast to Kyle Rittenhouse who was put on $1M bail and made to suffer through two years of prosecution. There is no longer a Rule of Law in America. The legal system is now just another tool for Democrats to punish their enemies and detractors. This started under the Clinton Administration where you could send any ridiculous allegation of tax fraud to the White House and if it was about a Republican, they would forward it to the IRS for prompt, endless investigation.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 3/9/2022 12:58:45 PM (No. 1094994)
Equity in justice. Black on white killing. Black walks free. No riots in Tampa. WLM too you know.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
3XALADY 3/9/2022 5:02:51 PM (No. 1095133)
I have been in the line at Dunkin' in FL and you do eventually wonder if anyone is even in there working.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
udanja99 3/9/2022 7:22:41 PM (No. 1095273)
Haven’t been to a Dunkin’ in decades. The last time was at a local franchise in Virginia which had been bought by a couple of Muslim men. They treated female customers like they treat their own women.
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Being a cranky old man should not be a death sentence, but then again the deceased was a registered sex offender. Imagine the outrage at the sentencing if the assailant was a white kid and the victim a Black-Hispanic.