Eric Eugene Washington, who is described by his mother as a fine gentleman despite having been arrested for assaulting the mother of his child a month before trying to hold up a taqueria.
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The difference between a hero and a vigilante depends on whether you love or hate the person he killed.
Around 11:30 PM on Thursday, January 6 at the Ranchito #4 Taqueria in southwest Houston, either a hero or a vigilante fired nine bullets at a masked black man who was waving around what looked like a gun and demanding that patrons hand over their wallets to him.
A website that rates zip codes by their level of per-capita violent crime gave the zip code where the shooting occurred an “F,” stating that it was statistically more violent than 93% of the nation’s zip codes.
Surveillance cameras caught the shooting, but since every clip I’ve seen has been either very short or heavily edited, I’ve cobbled together a four-minute video from what I could find online.
The gunman is seen entering the dingy little eatery and waving around what was later determined to be a fake gun while patrons, some terrified and crouching beneath their tables, tossed their wallets and dollars at him. According to a statement from the Houston Police Department:
Witnesses told officers the suspect entered the restaurant and pointed a pistol at patrons as he demanded their money. As the suspect collected money from patrons, one of the patrons, described as a white or Hispanic male, produced a gun of his own and shot the suspect multiple times. . . . The shooter collected the stolen money from the suspect and returned the money to other patrons. He and other patrons (victims) then fled the scene.
As with George Zimmerman, it looks like we have another “white Hispanic” killer on our hands.
The footage is blurry and, as is always the case with situations such as this, it has led to all sorts of half-assed false inferences and hasty conclusions that are useless beyond their value as a sort of Rorschach test for confirmation bias.
Several people, including the victim’s mother, insist that since the would-be robber was walking toward the exit, he was leaving the restaurant and posed no further threat. But as far as I can discern from staring at the footage, he was merely making the rounds and still pointing his gun. He happened to be walking in the direction of the exit when the hero/vigilante, still seated at his booth, fired two bullets into his back, then stood up and walked toward him, rapidly firing six more shots. At that point, the robber was a crumpled heap laying face-down on the floor. He may or may not have already been dead. Then the gunman removed the “gun” from the victim and fired one more shot straight into his head at extremely close range.
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The gunman hung around long enough to give back the money and wallets to the patrons who’d been robbed. Like a ghetto Robin Hood, he took from the poor and gave back to the poor. Then everyone except the restaurant’s owner and employees quietly left the restaurant without notifying police. On the way out, the gunman reportedly threw the rest of his coffee on the robber’s corpse.
It was that ninth shot at close range, the disrespectful coffee-flinging, and the fact that he didn’t humbly wait around for the police which may place the gunman in a Texas-sized heap of trouble.
Houston’s District Attorney Kim Ogg was elected in 2016 with the help of a $500,000 campaign donation by George Soros. She has been called “America’s Top Gay Cop” and lives with a big-beaked female “partner” who could be Ellen Degeneres’ body double.
As Houston’s DA, Ogg has also overseen a department that recently allowed Eric Eugene Washington, the 30-year-old black thug with braided hair and neck tattoos who got shot to death, to be released on his own recognizance after arresting him for an incident in December where he allegedly hit his common-law wife and mother of his four-month-old son.
What’s mystifying to a hardened criminal such as myself is that at the time the Houston Police Department set Washington loose for allegedly putting hands on his baby mama, he was already on parole for a 2015 incident in which he aided and abetted the robbery and murder of a 62-year-old proprietor of a Houston cell-phone store. Washington had been handed a 15-year sentence but was released in 2021 after fewer than seven years behind bars. I was under the impression that when you’re on parole for a serious felony, you’re not supposed to be charged with any new crimes, or it’s straight back to the pokey with you. But in this case, he got popped on suspicion of assaulting his brood sow, likely in the infant’s presence, and he was right back on the streets actin’ a foo’, wavin’ a plastic gun at startled taco-eaters.
But despite Washington’s premature release from prison for being an accomplice to murder and the fact that he didn’t even need to post a penny of bail for allegedly striking his baby son’s mother, the DA’s office announced on Monday that it intends to empanel a grand jury to decide whether the 46-year-old gunman who killed Washington should face criminal charges.
Since the gunman has not yet been charged, police have not yet revealed his name. On Monday, his defense attorney, Juan Guerra, Jr., released a statement:
In fear of his life and his friend’s life, my client acted to protect everyone in the restaurant. In Texas, a shooting is justified in self-defense, defense of others, and in defense of property. . . . We are confident that a Grand Jury will conclude that the shooting was justified under Texas Law. This event has been very traumatic, taking a human life is something he does not take lightly and will burden him for the rest of his life. For that reason, he wishes to remain anonymous. Due to the overwhelming coverage, we ask the media and the public to respect his privacy.
Aman Wairich, son of Hamid Wairich, the store clerk who was murdered in the 2015 robbery that sent Eric Eugene Washington to prison, says the gunman is a hero:
If the guy who stopped Eric was around ten years ago, maybe I’d still have my dad. . . . Eric was an evil criminal that took joy in harassing and robbing innocent families. The individual at the taqueria is a true hero!
His brother Sean Wairich added, “He did the right thing in stopping the robber and in protecting the community from a dangerous perpetrator.”
As one might expect, Eric Eugene Washington’s mother begs to differ. As you also might expect, she has a different surname than her son did. Choking back tears, Corine Goodman told a local TV station that the gunman acted more like a vigilante than a hero:
He’s not the monster people picture him to be. He’s kind, he’s my son, he’s kind, he’s gentle, he never met a stranger. To know Eric is to love Eric. Um, he’s a good father. Amazing brother, uncle. That’s who Eric Washington is. And I know without a shadow of a doubt he would never hurt anyone. What he did, I don’t condone. I don’t. He knew better. He never said anything or made me think he would go this route. But he went in there to rob, which is not good. He was raised better than that. And he robbed and he was headed out that door, and that man shot him four times, and I know when you do something wrong, there’s a chance you could die. I understand that, but for him to be shot four times in the back leaving, and when he falls down and he shoots him four more times? And then when you go in his pocket and get the gun and realize it’s a play gun and throw it and then you shoot him in the head? And then you go back and get something and pour it on him, and then on your way out the door you kick him — that don’t sit well with me. . . . I am hurt and I’m angry because of the way the situation, he just abused his body. He abused him, he was dead already, and that hurts. If you did shoot him, you stay there and you stand there and you talk to the law, you know?
I can’t vouch for Eric Washington’s merits as a brother or uncle. For all I know, he might have been the most tremendous black uncle with braided hair and neck tattoos in all of southwest Houston. But I’ve never met a good father who assaults his child’s mother a month before trying to rob a taco shop.
Some say that since this is Texas, a grand jury would never in a gazillion years indict the gunman. Others say that since this is Houston, and since the victim is black and the gunman at least looks white, a vengeful lesbian Soros-appointed DA who works in tandem with a police department helmed by a shiny-bald fat black guy may know how to stack local juries with enough sexual misfits and resentful racial vultures to not only bring down an array of indictments, but also a few convictions and possibly a decade or more in the Stony Lonesome.
And since the gunman at least looks white, he should steel himself to be dragged naked through the court of public opinion. He should expect to never be seen in public again without someone wanting, or especially trying, to kill him. For the moment, he’s very lucky that his name is being withheld.
Ever get the queasy feeling the people in charge want to terrify us all into never even thinking about defending ourselves? Second Amendment advocates used to say, “Better to be judged by twelve than carried by six.”
But compared to being judged, harassed, spat upon, and threatened by eight billion for the rest of your life, being carried by six almost sounds like a sweet deal.
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Tough call. Shooting him in the back and head when he was already down was a bit gratuitous. I don’t even see blacks outside of his family coming to his defense. However, blacks will be blacks.
The vigilante-hero of uncertain origin knew what he was doing. You don’t just wound and disarm, leaving the possibility that this criminal will survive to testify against you, and sue you, with all manner of cockamamie tales. You make sure he’s dead and he stays dead. Ask the NYPD. “Shoot to wound” does not work anymore.
In this instance, the shooter can plead self-defense and also build a big case against the local government for endangering the populace with a known violent criminal. I hope he does.
Absolutely. I would add, contrary to the mother’s claim, it is not a safe bet that he was on his way out the door.
An aside: A negro with a gun (or what appears to be) should be treated as an active shooter; they have zero trigger control and will likely shoot you even if they don’t intend to. Add to that their malice, and your poor chances of surviving the encounter are improved only by their notoriously bad aim.
I agree with you 100%. My point was a grand jury and a Soros funded D. A will most likely not see it our way.
I get that, for sure. You’re right. This is one of the problems I have with the “guns solve everything” crowd: You may get the bad guy (on that one occasion), but the antiwhite system might just decide to get you, and take away your family’s provider for the rest of their life.
-BZ. Text book result.
-“…the antiwhite system might just decide to get you, and take away your family’s provider for the rest of their life.” Thank u for typing this, &, that is precisely y they ALL have to go back because this antiWhite would not b happening if we had remained a European aka White homeland as our Founding Fathers had intended & written. The following words r in the documents “free White person … of good character” & “for our posterity”.
Sounds like a good argument for a jury. Point out that the people in power let this guy loose and now he’s menacing society. The DA will likely cry vigilantism as she releases criminals. The judge of course may say incompetency of people in power can’t be used by jurors in rendering their judgement but I’m guessing jurors can respectfully beg to differ.
And that defense will fail miserably in a blue political haven like Houston. If he’s indicted, I I’d bet he does time for voluntary manslaughter at the very least.
I wish I were on that jury. One good man can protect this community hero.
BTW, long before “OJ” (ie, in the 80s), I was opining that the jury system would prove to be the Achilles Heel of both multiracial America, and any libertarian theories about how “all problems could be solved by the free market”. Not enemy juries that put race above justice -no free market solution (or any other kind of solution) for that.
Shooting him after he was down was the smart move. Always remember: around blacks, never relax.
No mercy for the scum.
Another ‘fine gentleman’ earns batwings for the trip to Lucifer’s landfill. Should have stayed enrolled at NU.
433 homicides in Houston in 2022, the 2nd most this century. Fort Worth refuses to provide clear data but they can’t solve an October quadruple homicide there which is not promising. Dallas 243 homicides in 2022, the 2nd most this century. 217 homicides in San Antonio as of Nov 7 including 53 in truck, will break 1993 record of 220 homicides. Austin 71 homicides, 2nd highest ever. 17 dead on Jan 1 2023 during a prison break in Juarez, and an escaped Mexican gang leader tried to enter El Paso. Leftist policies threaten even the lone star state. Unknown people and lethal chemicals are flooding across the border, and meanwhile agents of the border patrol have to deal with their own coworkers like Juan David Ortiz. In conclusion we need a leader who is strong and who will treat this crisis of violence and disorder with the seriousness it deserves, and most importantly ACTUALLY BELIEVES IN PROTECTING OUR COUNTRY, AND OUR POSTERITY.
And next time someone says crime was worse in the 90s, look them in the eye and tell them a time before 9/11 and its ramifications, with no mind-destroying social media addiction, with only the beginnings of the opioid crisis, with relatively tame LGBT propoganda, and most importantly no coronavirus hoax, may as well be ancient history.
Aman Wairich, son of Hamid Wairich, the store clerk who was murdered in the 2015 robbery that sent Eric Eugene Washington to prison, says the gunman is a hero:
“…The individual at the taqueria is a true hero!”
That about sums it up in my opinion. Not sure eugene had much sense anyway. That wasn’t the neighborhood to be walking around in waving a gun and robbing people; it’s dead serious business.
Another rocket scientist murdered by the oppresive, racist, and heteronormative white people in power….
He will be sorely missed.
Never met a stranger he didn’t rob. He was kind except for the robbing and hitting. He’s the real victim.
Of shitty parenting!
Great NY Post type title! My only quibble with this article is that Jim mentioned the “victim’s mother”, whereas most everyone here will see him as robber and assailant who received a serving of “just deserts”. I enjoyed the extended quote of the mother. No need to demean her, as is often enough the case, she was given enough rope to hang herself with absurdities.
It certainly seems excessive to afterwards shoot the guy in the head, kick him and throw coffee on him. But there is the context of it being a ‘fight or flight’ situation. When a gun is pointed at everyone, many are going to temporarily lose it and go into attack mode that will take some time to cool down. I’m sure right now they are scouring the defendant’s social media looking for signs of racism that they can use to claim he had ‘intent’ to unnecessarily kill.
I find it curious that Mr. Washington was involved in an murder and served 6 years of a 15 year sentence. Bernie Madoff, a very deceptive and successful thief, committed no murder but received a 150 year sentence.
Bernie was a Jewish guy who stole money from Jewish guys, a far more serious offense than murder
In a sane world, this guy would’ve been given the key to the city and free tacos for life.
As a CC holder, my biggest fear isn’t the possibility of having to use my gun, but the aftermath in this Age Of Floyd The Banana Dancer.
If El Robin Hood were really “hard boiled” enough to deliver an execution-style coup de grace, he wouldn’t have turned himself in. I suspect he’s seen too many movies, from Dr. No to Heat.
Now his real problems begin. A Soros DA in a death penalty state, and now he’s provided the Great White Defendant: himself. I bet they’re dusting off Ol’ Sparky already. (*)
Conservatives have used gun ownership as a last ditch cope for decades. They got all ass-blasted a couple weeks ago when “Joe Biden” pointed out — correctly — that all their guns and rifles won’t beat his tanks and jets. No Red Dawn is going to save us.
The same is true on the street level. You can keep your guns, but if you use them, the Eternal DA will put you on ice.
(*) Bond didn’t need a gun licence, since he already had a license to kill. And he didn’t have to face a DA appointed by Blofeld.
Ostensibly the DA is polishing up old sparky like you said along with the usual suspects foaming at the mouth at the thought of a prolonged judicial lynching of what appears to be a white person. He may be Hispanic, in which case the DA will want to tread lightly on this case. The left is hellbent on making Texas blue. I’m guessing that most of the Hispanic community view this guy as a hero and if he gets Chauvin’d then they’re going to have a very different view of their Democrat overlords.
It does seem to be the case though that who gets charged and who doesn’t is becoming politically charged. There’s that guy, Matt Dolloff who killed Lee Keltner, a Trump supporter, during a protest in Denver. The Denver DA dropped the charges because Keltner sprayed bear mace and was “very threatening” and Keltner was a Trump supporter. Arbery was argueably being “very threatening” reaching for McMichaels’ shotgun but since Arbery was black and McMichaels white. The black guy who was harassing Ian Cranston’s girlfriend was arguably being “very threatening” and IIRC had an earlier altercation with police but the judge said that could not be included in the testimony. And perhaps most damning was the BLM protestors trespassing at that estate in St. Louis and the DA going after the property owners who were on their own property with guns drawn. The law and justice system are in essence becoming political weapons.
Yeah, those Taliban F35 Farooq fighter jets and M1 Abdul tanks really messed up the Americans in Afghanistan.
I think Brandon mostly ass-blasted his Depends. The Red Dawn scenario has always been a straw-man argument.
Although I strongly feel that firearms ownership is an individual right and the right of every free Citizen, the idea for it is that a citizen militia can be formed in your neighborhood by males between the age of 18 and 60 who own their own firearms.
We can debate about what a “well-disciplined militia” means, but it is likely to be more loyal to the country and community than professionals in the employ of King George. And the little Lady has a right to keep the homestead or castle secure as well.
As far as taking on standing armies in pitched battles, well, you do start by equipping your infantry with what is known as a Main Battle Rifle or an intermediate version that the Germans called Assault Rifles. In 1776, it was the frontier rifle that equipped the regulars.
So, yes, you do have a Constitutional Right to an M-16, although SOB Reagan screwed that up in 1986 when he signed the machine gun ban, and his successor’s Jesuit “Drug Czar” started making noise a few years later about banning semi-automatic “Assault Rifles” ─ the “gun of choice for drug dealers,” whatever that means. (The problem with drug dealers is a lack resolve, rope and lampposts, and not a shortage of bad laws or traditional Catholics, but I digress.)
A far as the issue regarding the Soros DAs and the perversion of justice, that is indeed a very good point.
I watched all of the George Floyd trial on TV, and the ability of White experts to perjure themselves to deify some Negro felon who overdosed in police custody while resisting arrest ─ and Minnesota echoing BLM and the (((media))) by calling it a murder was unbelievable to the point of treason. One state forensic expert actually testified that had Floyd overdosed and been found dead in front of his TV set it would have been a Fentanyl overdose, but while under arrest with White police officer Derek Chauvin and waiting for the ambulance, it was just murder. NO, that sounds like reasonable doubt to me. Chauvin did nothing wrong.
Anyway, it is not entirely true that the gun community has dropped the ball here. Long-time gun writers like retired police officer Massad Ayoob have always put forward the legal perspective to firearms self-defense, and he is still around and making YouTube videos. There are also specialists such as the Armed Attorneys who discuss the legal aspects of Deadly Force as members of the State Bar of Texas (although it does not appear that they have commented on this particular case yet).
Basically you can argue for the need for lethal force in self defense as long as there is the danger, which lasted until the guy in the taco shop disarmed the assailant. Then there becomes at least an “endangerment of bystanders” problem by firing gratuitous rounds. After taking the guy’s gun it starts getting gray real fast, and I don’t envy the good guy with the gun because of the legal problems in any case.
In a Just world the felonious Negro would have been strung up a long time ago.
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I agree with James J. O’Meara. American conservatives are way too obsessed about guns and waste so much time tuning them, pimping them with special army man plastic. They focus way too less on what really stacks up bodies in armed conflict, which is artillery and area denial armaments, speaking mines and IEDs. Sadly, the Feds made big moves to defang that topic decades ago, when they went against Paladin Press and banned the publishing of instructions to create these instruments of force multiplication, something they didn’t even do during the anarchist terrorist attacks earlier in the last century.
Rightly pointed out, the personal firearm is like the nuclear option in almost all places outside Texas where you camera footage to make your case. But its the typical american armchair sheepdog warrior death maker mentality to sit on his fat ass and do the “hold me back bro” method of defensive action and imagining himself playing hero in a situation where its already too late.
American militancy is way too overrated, while european militancy is way too underrated.
“Conservatism is about conserving that which is already gone” ─ that is a direct quote from a former Buckleyite Conservative who wrote a book called White Power almost six decades ago, so it goes without saying that a new plan is needed.
I’m not sure how this became about “American militancy” or Conservatism, but one cannot even discuss aspects of WWII History in most European countries or Canada without getting tossed into jail. They don’t care if the deviant’s age is in their 90s if something non-Kosher is mentioned.
Soon, just noticing a criminal’s skin color, for example, will itself be considered more than Thought Crime. It might as well be the Dark Ages because there are no questions of personal conscience for the Devil’s minions. The Wrong ideas (or ideas for or by the wrong, e.g., White, people) will be literal acts of violence and insurrection against the State by definition.
Europeans usually cope with the idea that all of this is just imposed upon them somehow ─ maybe by NATO or by osmosis, I don’t know ─ but seemingly they bear no responsibility for their own traitors.
Regardless, the barbarians keep flooding the gates and all the loud voices hail the alien population transfers.
For longer than most can remember, all sides of the pond keep being very good at bringing the proverbial knife to a gun fight.
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“Brood Sow” — I’ll remember this appellation forever, for I have been searching for some way to get across the names of the Third Worlders that are increasing our overpopulation swamp daily.
And I have to add that the Third World ‘brood sows’ are only half of the double-barreled shotgun aimed at all Whites, while the other half is the White women who have been brainwashed into believing that childbearing is an oppression on their lives and liberties by domineering White males. The Great Replacement is predicated on these two streams of thinking and existing. We have to fight both — politically — to save ourselves and our children.
And in answer to this post, it is a great lesson in self-defense, and I hope there are a lot of men and women in this country that see this truth as contained in this episode, in a local eatery where such problems are least expected.
An “amazing uncle?” Well, yeah, he’s an armed robber but he was an amazing third cousin to Stentory Calhoun. That falls squarely in the category of certain African-Americans wanting credit for things they’re supposed to do. You’re supposed to be a good uncle.
“I ain’t nevah poked my nieces and nephews in de eye wid’ a stick…”
“You’re not supposed to…”
Pumping this walking lump of cells full of lead was a service to us all. Throwing the cup of coffee on him after he was dead makes my heart happy. If the world was mine to run he would be the spokesman for Maxwell House after this.
As the kids say, “underrated comment”. Haha
Tungsten my guy, modern bullet are made of tungsten. Lead would not withstand the impact of the NC propellant. 😉
Thank you for making me aware of crimegrade.org. I live near Dayton, Ohio. Last year I moved from ZIP code 45426, which has a grade of D+, to 45449, which has a grade of B. I think my life expectancy has increased. Maybe.
Just looking at the demographics of your suburbs, going from a 60%+ black place to an 80%+ white one will be a great improvement.
I’m just glad no whites were involved in this story for once. It’s obvious this mexicutioner is not white based on his style and the setting. I hope more nonwhite vs nonwhite internecine stories like this occur. I say we arm both sides and let them go wild in this American Bantustans.
It seems, in Los Angeles at least, that Black men are marrying or at least impregnating Hispanic women, probably because they are a sight better looking than the ‘ladies’ to be found in ‘da hood’. So, a whole new race is now arising and promising to be further opposition to our woeful U.S. — and to us.
There are 2 schools of thought:
You can use deadly force only in self defense, and so as soon as a threat is neutralized, you must stop. IMO, in the video, the robber is still a threat when walking past the table, and so the initial gunshots are justified. On the other hand, actions that appear to be taken to kill, rather then neutralize, are not justified, and so shooting the robber in the head when he has already been neutralized would not be justified.
When you unjustifiably create a situation that causes others to fear for their life, you forfeit your rights. In this view, the coup de grace is justified.
As with many important things, context matters. In the context of a just nation, where you can be reasonably assured that the robber would be put in jail for a long time, I would argue that view #1 is clearly the better one, because it’s better to dispense justice with cooler heads and more evidence.
But in a clown world, view #2 becomes increasingly defensible, with the caveat that you can’t expect justice for your own actions in such a world.
To this last point, based on the current limited evidence, I’d bet the shooter will be convicted of murder. The jury composition will be very important.
Hopefully a case can be made that the shot to the head was essentially “abuse of a corpse” or something to that effect. If he his outright charged with murder expect a bit of an outcry from the media and possibly the public.
I looked at the picture of the Soros DA. What the heck is up with her mouth?
Tentacles are about to emerge?
I wonder if perhaps she’s originally from Innsmouth?
IMO the negro gunman will not commit any more crime. EVER. The hero that disposed of this POS violent thug made sure of that. I am as pro-White as one can get, but I really do not care what race the shooter is. He acted in self-defense and was justified in shooting the negro robber a hundred times if he found that to be what it took to stop him. Waving around a gun-even a fake one-and threatening people to give you their money-is just cause to get put down and that is exactly what happened. If a hundred times more criminals got what this one got, crime in this nation would damn near cease. Guns save lives, but they take them as well. Remember that, would-be gangstaz.
Texas has a constitutional carry law as it was signed by governor Greg Abbott in June of 2021 which should defend the person and grant amnesty for the said person. Abbott also signed a law to carry guns in hotels and apartments in defense later in the year.
There should be zero reasons to send this Hispanic to prison for practically defending himself and the public at large from a terrorist.
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