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Rick Chow shot someone’s car up in 2015 over boiled peanuts & some bud lights. then he shot someone in 2018 over $6.49 oven cleaner. Like what are we even talking about? He’s a fucking maniac #Justice4CyrusBelton

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AlexHD⛹🏾‍♂️ @AlexHD___

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bullshit they all chased that kid out of the store

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Rick Chow's lawyer Jack B. Swerling spoke to reporters outside the courtroom after a jury acquitted Chow of murdering 14-year-old Cyrus Carmack-Belton. "Firstly, behalf of the Chows, we're very pleased at the jury's deliberations and their verdict. We think it was the appropriate verdict in this case, although it was a difficult decision to come to, because you have two different stories, two extreme differences," Swerling said in a video from WIS-TV. "You have, on the one hand, Mr. Chow, who we always contended was defending his son. He was not trying to hurt the young man." "And the other side, you had the young man who had a semi-automatic pistol. ... Our position is, he pointed it at Andy Chow and his father had to defend his son, and it's tragic. I feel sorry for the family. As I said during my opening statement, my heart goes out to them, but 14-year-old kids should not be roaming the streets of Columbia or South Carolina with semi-automatic pistols loaded and ready to fire." "I think I think the difference was this. Andy Chow was following him out of the store and down the street, we always took the position that Rick Chow, the defendant, that was not his objective. His objective was he was going to protect his son, and that's what happened. So we tried to separate the two different issues, one from Andy Chow, who was following him down the street." "We're not celebrating the fact that this young man got killed. We just think that the jury sliced it the right way with Andy Chow coming out of store, thinking and having a reasonable suspicion that he may have taken something, leaving the store and going to follow him, and the father going after his son to make sure his son is okay." "What would you say to the Carmack family if you could say anything to them now?" a reporter asked. "My heart goes out to them. I know I can't imagine what they're going through, or what they have been through, losing a son. I can't, as a parent myself, I cannot imagine any more pain different, more difficult than that. So I feel for them, I really do, because they didn't do anything, they didn't, they didn't bring on the suffering themselves." "This was something that their son put them into, and you know, young people need to learn. You can't walk around the city carrying semi automatic weapons loaded. ... If he didn't have a gun, this would not have happened." Swerling has been a licensed lawyer in South Carolina since 1977. He is one of the most prominent criminal defense attorneys in the state.