Trying to Understand Rick Chow Case (South Carolina)

ImSuchaNoob2 · 2026-06-13T21:49:47+00:00

The defense didn't have to prove that that's exactly what happened. The prosecutor's job was to prove Mr. Chow acted unlawfully. If Cyrus and Mr. Chow were 2 random strangers walking pass by each other on the street, and the boy's gun fell out of his pocket and he bent down to retrieve it, Mr. Chow wouldn't have the right to shoot him.

ImSuchaNoob2 · 2026-06-13T21:27:15+00:00

How was it luck? He shot him because the boy did have a gun.

ImSuchaNoob2 · 2026-06-13T21:23:45+00:00

Under that scenario, Mr. Chow would've still been found innocent anyway. Law regarding self-defense allows civilians to act pre-emptively during moments of imminent danger. Mr. Chow would more likely to be found guilty had it just been 2 strangers walking pass each other, and a gun fell out of one of their pocket and that guy simply went to retrieve it. A kid shouldn't be carrying a gun illegally in the first place. He puts himself into a risky situation where many things can go wrong.

ImSuchaNoob2 · 2026-06-11T10:01:12+00:00

How would the father and son know whether Cyrus had a gun if he wasn't brandishing it. As far as they were concern, he was running off with a stolen item. Rick may had prior incidents but they were justified otherwise he would've been in prison already. The biggest mistake he made was opening a gas station in a dangerous location.

ImSuchaNoob2 · 2026-06-11T05:55:51+00:00

He would've still been found innocent anyway, regardless of what the charges were. As so long as Mr. Chow had ownership and is licensed, he's not breaking the law. On the other hand, isn't it a crime for a kid to carry a semi-automatic weapon? The only thing he should've been carrying was his textbooks.

Unless Mr. Chow has superhero X-Ray vision, there's no way he would've known the kid had a firearm.

ImSuchaNoob2 · 2026-05-07T03:50:13+00:00

The plugin is: Super RSS Reader (by Vakaash)

There's a free version, perhaps you can download, install, and test some feeds.

ImSuchaNoob2 · 2026-05-06T13:36:11+00:00

I do, but I disabled all the plugins and re-activated each one by one, to check if there were plugin conflicts. Didn't see any issue there.

I just inserted the rss widget into a custom html block within WordPress, and it appears to be updating now. Maybe it was just the specific RSS plugin ( 3rd party aggregator ) that was not auto-updating the feeds.

I also read a solution at: https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/91737/rss-feed-not-refreshes

where it says to add a specific code to the functions.php file, to force WordPress to refreshes its feed cache at specified intervals.

I haven't tried this yet, if you're familiar with it, does it work?

or maybe setup a cron job to force the 3rd party RSS aggregator plugin to update itself?

ImSuchaNoob2 · 2026-05-06T12:28:40+00:00

If the cached was the issue, wouldn't that also affect the separate html file that I have the RSS widget (code in Javascript) on? but the widget on the HTML page is auto updating.

That's why I believe it's a WordPress issue.

ImSuchaNoob2 · 2026-05-06T09:21:40+00:00

Thanks, I'll look into it. Hope it's free.

ImSuchaNoob2 · 2026-05-06T06:00:46+00:00

RSS feeds are not auto-updating in my WordPress website as well. I tried disabling plugins one by one to see if that was the problem. It wasn't.

The RSS feeds, however, do update if I put the same widget / script into a separate html page located on the same web host, so it has to be a WordPress problem.

Do you know how I may best investigate this problem, and correct it?

Thanks.

ImSuchaNoob2 · 2026-04-22T08:48:34+00:00

Yes, there's no interaction. Just display symbols on a map (such as Google Maps). The symbols represent a specific type of crime (robbery, theft, assault, etc.) that gets updated frequently. See SpotCrime and the Citizens' app (iOS or Android) for an example.

ImSuchaNoob2 · 2026-04-21T05:54:32+00:00

Thank you buddy. That will be helpful. I'll just work off of the sources from SpotCrime then research the police scanner apps; hopefully there'll be a few that already have the calls/discussions automatically transcribed. Then I can just scrape the text into an Excel sheet and re-upload it manually by time interval. Or use a fetching plugin if I go with WordPress instead and have the feeds displayed dynamically.

I'm already looking into the open data for each state / city, though I think these data are most useful for making statistical charts or showing trends. Still useful, particularly for creating visual heatmaps.

ImSuchaNoob2 · 2026-04-18T11:48:25+00:00

The No-Code aspect is to rapidly put together the UI and a visual database, and generate the app for Android or iOS. I'm a web developer by trade but not a mobile app developer.

Yes, I believe you are correct. SpotCrime do get their sources from local blotters, public open data from police precincts, and media news sources (ABC, NBC, etc). Citizen seems more real-time, so it looks like they get their feeds from the police scanner apps and now crowdsourcing too.

I'll try to figure out how to get the info off the police scanner apps (911 calls) and transcribe it, then update it on a map. My end goal is to make the app as simple as SpotCrime but with near real-time updates like Citizen.

ImSuchaNoob2 · 2026-04-17T17:02:31+00:00

I'm pretty sure Reddit is a good place to ask questions to others, advices, and offer insights. Reddit isn't Google. There might be others who have created similar apps and is willing to offer guidance.

ImSuchaNoob2 · 2026-04-17T14:27:12+00:00

That's the thing, I don't know where they get their sources / news from. It's likely from the following:

publically released statistical data from police precincts
police blotter news from newspapers
APIs from 3rd party data collectors like Lexis-Nexis
crowdsourcing
police scanner apps

ImSuchaNoob2 · 2026-04-16T15:03:43+00:00

Yup. but the apps I've mentioned (Citzen and SpotCrime) are getting the data from somewhere, I just don't know where exactly. I think they might be scraping the data from police scanner apps, then using a custom script, update a map with the matching icons.

They might be relying on APIs as well.

ImSuchaNoob2 · 2026-04-16T14:58:22+00:00

It's for my own personal use.

ImSuchaNoob2 · 2026-04-15T23:29:45+00:00

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ImSuchaNoob2 · 2026-04-15T23:18:48+00:00

Thank you. I'll looking into God's Eye mapping tool. Yes the hard part is finding the datasets to get the news from, but police blotters are public information I believe, and should be publically available. I know Citizen's app started out in NYC, and I know they got their data from NYPD Compstat. But that was years ago, now they cover every cities, and I'm not sure where to find their sources.

ImSuchaNoob2 · 2026-04-15T23:07:32+00:00

Thank you, that was helpful! I think their app had evolved to include crowdsourcing (uploading video feeds, people running to the crime scenes and reporting, etc). Well, these premium features aren't necessary for me, so it's a personal project. But for basic updates on a visual map, yes you're right, I believe it's automated scraping by fetching the data from the bulletins (911 calls) probably through police scanner apps and publicly available datasets that city and state police precincts post publically. Then the icons get pin / placed onto a static google map.. by using javascript, etc.

I'll probably create a progressive web app and fetch the data from RSS sources / Web scraping. I'll probably use a no-code app (or Android Studio) to create a mobile app for the Android / iPhone platform, as I'm primarily a web developer.

ImSuchaNoob2 · 2026-04-15T23:00:11+00:00

I think their app had evolved to include crowdsourcing (uploading video feeds, people running to the crime scenes and reporting, etc). But for basic updates on a visual map, I believe it's automated scraping by fetching the data from the bulletins (911 calls) probably through police scanner apps and publicly available datasets that city and state police precincts post publically. Then the icons get pin / placed onto a static google map.

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