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A British woman was shot dead by her father last year after the pair had argued about President Donald Trump earlier that day. Lucy Harrison, 23, was fatally shot on Jan. 10, 2025 while visiting her father, Kris Harrison, in suburban Dallas at his home in Prosper, Texas. Harrison moved to the U.S. when Lucy was a child.

Prosper police originally investigated her death as a possible case of manslaughter, but a criminal case in Texas was not brought after a grand jury in Collin County opted not to indict him. Her death is being investigated in Cheshire Coroner’s Court in England.

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[–] Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 131 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] wuffah@lemmy.world 30 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)
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[–] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 120 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

So this Kris guy is an immigrant huh?

[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 102 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 43 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

When the United Kingdom sends its people, they’re not sending their best...

[–] TheMadCodger@piefed.social 36 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I mean, they did send over their religious extremists, slavers, and prisoners, before moving on to other colonies. And the US has never recovered.

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

America** has never recovered

FTFY

[–] Birch@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The world has never recovered

FTFTFY

"Everything was fine, then the British showed up"

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[–] lennybird@lemmy.world 110 points 3 weeks ago

Typical maga loser. So sorry for the woman, standing up to fundamentalist extremists in her own family.

[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 100 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

On the morning of the shooting, at her father’s four-bedroom, $900,000 home, Littler said Lucy had asked her father, “How would you feel if I was the girl in that situation and I’d been sexually assaulted?” while they were discussing Trump.

Kris responded that he had two other daughters living in their home, so it would not upset him very much.

FAMILY VALUES!

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 14 points 3 weeks ago

They only have a problem with "honor killings" when they're done by brown people.

These people view their children as property, and believe "I brought you into this world and I can take you out of it" at literal face value.

[–] end_stage_ligma@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Degenerates like him belong on a cross.

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[–] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 68 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

He claims it was an accident, and honestly, even if I completely believe his story and take him at his word (I don't) what poor impulse control from that childish, ignorant, weak, stupid, fragile man. No surprise he's a Trump supporter.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 55 points 3 weeks ago

Trump supporters are too emotional to own weapons.

[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 44 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Now replace British by Muslim and trump by Allah (or Black and Obama), and watch right wing media explaining how "these people" are dangerous and not compatible with "our values".

[–] Horsey@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Our values

It is within their value framework, just not the correct belligerent and leader

[–] DERRALEXANO@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

Muslim woman shot dead after arguing about Donald Allah. Black woman shot dead after arguing about Donald Obama.

[–] goferking0 3 points 3 weeks ago

Unfortunately in their minds, like the police and court, they'd still think the father was faultless AND ignore/miss that comparisons completely

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[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 40 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Murdered his own daughter for a person who fundamentally hates him.

The "I don't know how the gun went off" thing is bullshit. Even if it was accidental, which it wasn't, then she's still dead because of his actions.

[–] cheesybuddha@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There is no such thing as an "accidental discharge" when guns are involved.

Only "negligent discharges"

[–] theyoyomaster@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

This, I always get slammed for it in gun communities but I think Glock convincing everyone that pistols don’t need safeties (and later that safeties are a liability) is the single most dangerous action in the gun community in my lifetime. Safeties aren’t there to keep the gun from firing on its own, that’s just any modern gun that doesn’t malfunction, they exist as a final measure against human error.

If you buy a gun without a safety and allow anything to touch the trigger when it’s pointed at something you are not fully comfortable with shooting, you are negligent.

[–] Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 37 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Forget the whole Trump angle that might be motive. Why wasn't he at least charged with manslaughter? It seems outrageous that he could claim accidental and get away with it.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

you missed the part where women aren't people in Texas. women are property. he owned his daughter because she was his daughter. and in America, you can do whatever you want with your property.

[–] weirdbeardgame@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Not if every tech company in the country has anything to say about that

Oh no. Your devices aren't your property like your women are. You bought access to Apple's iPhone.

[–] some_guy 35 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"My daughter, who was always mad about my guns, agreed to come see my new gun. I don't know how it accidentally shot her in the head."

That a grand jury in TX didn't move on this is a real indictment of the citizens of that state. But we already knew what sort of people live there and are proud of their politics.

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 8 points 3 weeks ago

I mean, juries are chosen in part by the defense. You can't treat them as a fair sampling of a population. You have to visit a place, learn its history, get to know people who have spent their lives there, and ask them their genuine opinion. Only then can you truly know whether Texas is a spiritually cruel, intellectually bereft, and socially monstrous place.

Luckily, I can confirm this for you.

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 30 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

In a statement issued by his lawyers, the killer said, “I fully accept the consequences of my actions, and there isn’t a day I don’t feel the weight of that loss - a weight I will carry for the rest of my life

Bull Fucking Shit.

'Man' murdered his daughter is cold blood and expects everyone to feel sorry for him. I hope he rectally gets he deserves in prison.

[–] myserverisdown@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Prison rape isn't funny or acceptable when it happens to bad people either. It just perpetuates the idea that anal sex between two men is always a savage act.

Instead, hope he gets savagely assaulted regularly for what he did.

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

the leftism leaving peoples body when talking about prison abolition

no, but honestly, violent revenge fantasies don't help anyone, not the victims, and for sure not society. That goes for prison rape especially (as you correctly put it), but same goes for assault or other forms of punishment.

Keep violent people like him away from people they could hurt, sure. But never give up trying to reform them into compassionate members of society. And if punishment is really something needed to put one's mind at ease: The worst thing that could happen to him is he gets better as a human being and has to live with the consequences and guilt of his actions until the day he dies.

[–] myserverisdown@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

There's certain conditions that you cannot reform. Murdering your own daughter over a verbal disagreement? We don't have the resources to focus on rehabilitating him if its even possible. I'd rather these theoretical prison therapists spend more time working with inmates that went to prison for aggravated assault in a bar fight etc.

Sure, in a perfect society where his rehabilitation program doesn't take time, money, and mental anguish from the therapist...it'd be nice to just separate him from society and revisit his ability to rejoin as a productive member decades later. But as of right now I don't want to pay 45¢ to cover the cost of his rehabilitation when I could instead pay 20¢ to rehab a less complicated individual and the extra 25¢ could go to social safety nets or education.

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[–] cheesybuddha@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Also it's clearly cruel and unusual punishment, which we are forbidden from using.

I watch a court video the other day of a judge telling a young 'offender' that if he's not careful, he will go to prison and get "passed around" by the other inmates. I thought to myself "This judge, who knowingly sends people to a place where he know they will get raped, is an affront to justice. What an immoral piece of shit who willingly works with a system that is contrary to our legally defined moral obligations."

It's like Spencer Tracy said in the movie Judgement at Nuremberg. The very first time a Judge sentences one person to such unconscionable punishment, that is when the Judge becomes fully complicit with the system. Not just complicit, but a necessary and willing part of the system's survival and propagation.

[–] redwattlebird@lemmings.world 26 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

When he gets snapped out of his cult induced mind, he's in for a hell of a time realising that he killed his own daughter in the name of a pedophile rapist.

[–] sureshot0@discuss.online 4 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Statments like this are so baffling because I can't tell if you're being sarcastic.

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[–] SGGeorwell@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I’m beginning to wonder if the libraries worth of books written about WWII were an attempt to try to understand a phenomenon, but in all that examination we were still unable to identify the best way to prevent or battle fascism.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The best way is a lead vaccine.

[–] Photonic@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

I get what you’re saying but I think a better way is a far deadlier pandemic with an actual, perfectly working vaccine. Those idiots will refuse and kill themselves over their culture war.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 5 points 3 weeks ago

I distinctly remember one old man who refused the COVID vaccine, dying in the hospital, that was asked by a reporter if he regretted not taking the shot. He said no and he's make the same decision again. He died ugly and in pain, and I'm glad he suffered for his stupidity.

[–] Xenny@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Covid wasn't deadly enough. Change my mind

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 8 points 3 weeks ago

Change your own mind, ya misanthrope. You can't hate humans better. The most important finding of all psychology is the Fundamental Attribution Error. Far less than our inherent traits, it is situations that dictate our behaviour.

[–] Sundiata@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago

reminds me when a woman ran her husband over because he didn't vote for mitt romney during the 2012 election.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/police-arizona-woman-runs-down-husband-car-not-voting-flna1C7026781

these politicians don't give a fuck about you and won't hesitate to take away your livelihood no matter how 'loyal' you are.

[–] cheesybuddha@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago

I bet I can guess what side of the issue Dad was on.

[–] Eddbopkins@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

trump derangement syndrome strikes again. this mental disorder has infiltrated almost all levels of government including ICE and has killed 2 US citizens. and now another one. when will there be a cure of this disorder.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

Way the fuck more than 2. You may not have seen the other ≈500 or so, because those deaths weren't caught on camera, but since ICE was founded in 2003, around 500 people have died in ICE custody. In the last year that has skyrocketed to around or over 60 people dying in a single year (2025). Previously the high point, even under the first Drumpf administration was only around 30-32 people in a year.

In 2025 60 people died in ICE custody. In 2026 they have gunned down, directly murdering in public as opposed to in custody, 2 people before they took them into custody, THAT WE KNOW OF.

Who the fuck knows what they are doing outside of camera range. That's like 99% of US territory, though admittedly ≈80% of the population lives in the scanscapes of the cities and towns.

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