re: Man murdered in front of his mother at Opelousas gym.

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Bordenave said her son had previously been threatened at the same gym by the suspect. She said she attempted to bring surveillance video to the police to press charges, but no action was taken.

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But what does the video show? If it shows two guys standing in a gym having a verbal argument, that proves jack shite. Just because you have a video showing them talking, or even yelling at each other for that matter, that doesn't make it a crime. Simple Assault is a misdemeanor anyway. The police writing him a Summons wouldn't have done squat to stop this.

Now if the video shows him pulling a weapon on the son, don't you think she would have mentioned that? Back to my original post, victims families invariably want to blame the police because "something should have been done" even though there was nothing the police could legally do. Just not the way it works.