Ezekiel Gilbert "liked" women.
Well, he liked sex with women.
Or he liked sex and he preferred that the sex be with women:
Ezekiel Gilbert shot Lenora Ivie Frago in the neck on Christmas Eve, after she denied his requests for sex and wouldn’t return the $150 he had paid her, according to the San Antonio Express-News. Under Texas law, an individual is authorized to use deadly force to “retrieve stolen property at night,” and Gilbert’s lawyers cited that provision as justification for Gilbert’s action, reasoning that Frago had stolen $150 from him by taking his money without delivering sex. In a police interview played for jurors, Gilbert “never mentioned anything about theft,” a detective told the San Antonio Express-News. Frago, who was 21, was critically injured and died several months later.
This is utterly confounding to me.
Really, I shouldn't be surprised. After we are talking about Texas law and spurious "property rights" in Texas trump the right of a human, especially a female human reduced to a commodity by Texas law, not to be murdered.
But, this is America and I shouldn't be surprised that men can get away with this in America. Not just in Texas.
Just especially in Texas -- you know they make noises about Texas going blue and civilized -- do you really think so?