A man in Florida decided to threaten a black
landscaper with an assault weapon for
the terrible violation of partially blocking his
driveway allegedly as the man was working to landscape.
Now, I have some more details on this.
David Barry 44, walked down his driveway with a rifle
in hand screaming at Jeremy Lee for blocking his driveway.
Lee's daughter Carrie began filming the incident which
apparently appeared to further enrage Berry.
And so' here's what happened next.
>> You're a prick.
>> I said I'll move.
You think I'm playing.
>> Yeah.
>> Your daughter better take record of how stupid her father is.
>> Yeah, all right.
>> Keep recording, if it goes online, your ass will be sued too.
>> Cut that off. >> Your ass will be sued too.
>> [INAUDIBLE] that.
>> Got nothing [CROSSTALK] >> I'm telling her to cut this off.
>> Do you I ain't got nothing?
>> Why record?
You record, you pulling a gun on the guy in the middle on city plot?
[CROSSTALK] >> Do whatever.
>> This is my property, I'll do what I want.
Do not block somebody's driveway, get your dumb ass out of here.
>> Yeah, you the dumb mother.
>> Dumb mother?
Shoot you down.
>> Now, Carrie filming the incident I think possibly saved her father's life
because since he was on camera, maybe that controlled his actions a little bit,
who knows what he would do if he wasn't on camera.
But Lee was cutting the grass of a neighboring property and
said that he had already moved his trailer and apologized to Berry for
blocking the driveway but that wasn't good enough.
He says, I immediately moved, I stopped what I was doing, and I moved up and
like I said, just wasn't good enough for him and I apologized to him.
Barry clearly not satisfied by the apology told Lee
that he would quote blast your e-thing head off and
then insulted him by calling him a dumb ass.
Now, Berry clearly could have caused some serious damage.
I'm glad he didn't fire his weapon but he did return to his house to get the rifle
and pointed it toward Lee even after he moved his car, even after he apologized.
Jeremy Lee says, I was really worried about her meaning Carey who was filming.
I was stunned, I think I said you're going to kill me in front of my daughter.
And the answer is yeah, because your life doesn't matter to this guy who by the way
has a criminal record but it's okay.
It's Florida so it doesn't matter and
he gets to buy whatever gun he wants including an assault weapon.
>> Yeah so, in the video you can actually see the back of the vehicle a little bit,
you can see the driveway, you can see that it's not in the driveway,
it's not blocking the driveway.
But we talked about this on old school all the time.
Remember you get all of them tyt.com/join.
And so, once someone has already apologized, it's over.
And if you still are yelling at the person after they said, my bad, and
they did what you wanted, then you're the bad guy, right?
But in this case, it's nuclear bad guy.
He already moved it for you and
he already apologized and you go and get a weapon and threaten to murder him.
Why?
Well, two reasons one, right wingers have a sense of entitlement and
they think I'm entitled to whatever I want, okay?
And if you notice he's talking about, trespassing and
I can't believe you blocked my driveway.
Then when he got his phone, he went into his neighbor's yard and
trespassed because he's entitled to the whole world, right?
And you're not entitled to anything.
And if you think about it, I mean he's a criminal, right?
With a rap sheet but he's got that giant gun anyway because if
you're a right winger it doesn't matter, nothing matters.
You have all the rights, you have all the guns, you have all the weapons,
you have the cops on your side 98% of the time.
So, he's emboldened to go and threaten to murder people on tape.
Now the good news is the cops are doing the right thing in this case,
we'll get to that in a second.
But the second reason that this lunatic did this, it's because every
one of these right wing gun owners can't wait for an opportunity to use it.
Even the smallest little transgression, they're,
great, I finally get to murder someone.
Okay, you're in my driveway.
Dammit, you're not in my driveway anymore.
Who cares, I'll murder you, anyway.
This is my one golden opportunity to murder someone, okay?
And, look, we're living a very dangerous country.
And it's really scary times.
>> Yeah. Cuz all these guys think that they have
a right to kill you.
>> No, they're waiting for any little excuse to do it.
And, you say, the cops did the right thing.
Mm-hm, not really.
So they showed up to investigate the incident.
They released a statement saying the bottom line is
a dispute over parking should never have escalated to something like this.
If you have a problem with someone partially blocking the driveway,
you call the police, you don't grab a gun like some vigilante.
And remember he's brandishing an assault weapon and he's threatening to use it
against a landscaper who, by the way, was standing on public property.
He was not standing on his private property.
And this tweet is fascinating because as it says,
please post and share this man pulled out a gun on my cousin and
her father while they were working in his neighbor's yard.
This is in Clearwater, Florida.
The Police Department took my family's ID.
But didn't take the guy's.
He's a convicted felon and cops did nothing.
And, by the way, she's right about that.
Berry has had run ins with the law.
The Construction Company owner has in the past been charged with battery,
burglary and petite theft, and pleaded guilty to misdemeanors.
He is now facing another possible set of charges from
the Clearwater Police Department.
I don't feel comfortable with a possible set of charges.
Are there charges or are there not charges?
>> Yeah, I'll give you the exact quote.
Anna you're right, they didn't even take his ID and they took the victim's ID.
By the way, the victim of course is black.
So, that for a right winger that means I can do anything I want to him.
But the reason I said that the cops are doing an okay job here is another quote
from them.
We're actively investigating this incident,
will be presenting the case to the office of the state attorney.
So we'll see what kinda case they present because threatening to murder someone
is a very serious crime, especially when you have a weapon in your hand.
And remember this case, this is important, in Florida, it's a standard round state.
So if Mr. Berry had made the mistake of taking one step forward,
not only would that guy have murdered him but
he would have definitely gotten away with it and maybe his daughter too.
>> Exactly.