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  Yes.  Just awful.  
  You know that in the story above if the call had gone in that a black tenant had shot a white maintenance man the cops would have shown up in full SWAT mode and there would be no “cooperating with detectives” — there would be a gunman-with-unknown-motive who was killed at the scene.
context: Aren't burglars in your house? Who just shoots random outside people through the window? >
  
  People who shouldn't have guns. >
  
  And yet it seems fully legal down in Texas:
  
  The resident stayed at the scene and is cooperating with detectives.
  No arrests have been made at this time.
  
  One of the many reasons I’d never live in a gun-crazy shithole like Texas. I’d like to think that killing a maintenance worker for zero reason other than misplaced paranoia would be illegal in my state. >
  
  They just want all citizens to have the same right to murder people at will that police currently do. >
  
  I was thinking the same thing.  All you have to do to invoke Castle Doctrine / Qualified Immunity is to be white and say that you were “afraid.“  You don’t even have to do anything to attempt to remove yourself from the situation or reduce your risk.    
  The Reveal did a podcast (Dec 9, 2021)  interviewing another maintenance man in North Carolina who was shot by a tenant who claimed he was afraid he was being burgled.  This guy OPENED HIS LOCKED DOOR so he could shoot the maintenance man in the chest.  No charges filed in either case bc white man claiming Castle Doctrine.  Coincidentally -or not- both shooters white, both victims non-white.    
  So, does the Castle Doctrine apply when the (white) cops are kicking in your (non-white) door?  Ask Brianna Taylor. >
  
  Or her BF - who had great aim, and control, and they tried to bury him.  The banter of the officers on arrival was enlightening and sickening, especially in hindsight with knowledge of the details of what actually happened.