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UPDATE: Man who instigated racist disputes involved in shooting outside County Courthouse | VIDEO - ClarksvilleNow.com

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UPDATE: Man who instigated racist disputes charged with attempted murder outside County Courthouse | VIDEO - ClarksvilleNow.com
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UPDATE: Man who instigated racist disputes charged with attempted murder outside County Courthouse | VIDEO - ClarksvilleNow.com
Two people were hurt in a shooting next to the Montgomery County Courthouse in Clarksville in a confrontation involving Dalton Eatherly, aka "Chud the Builder."

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Lonely_Noyaaa 1 day ago +1233
A guy who built a following by screaming racial slurs and flashing guns online just shot someone in front of a courthouse. The internet's toxicity has real world consequences.
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Jeff_goldfish 1 day ago +380
I bet he will be back on the streets 2 weeks from now streaming again instigating people. Idk what the f*** is going on with society but this shit is not ok. I’ve gotten my life fucked by getting in trouble with the law by making my own mistakes and done my time and paid back by hard means. I know people that have gotten fucked over by the law that are still paying and still scared of the law for less bullshit. Guys like this cocksucker get to threaten and be openly racist and walk free. F*** this system man.
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crobbbbbbb 1 day ago +130
It's f****** terrifying. They really are trying to take us back to Jim Crow. Anything less than white and male and you ain't worth shit.
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Pristine_Currency_77 1 day ago +18
Jim Crow never left, bud.
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not_loggedin 22 hr ago +1
It became James Crow esq.
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the2belo 20 hr ago +1
Rep. James Crow (R)
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OwnerOfCat 1 day ago +14
Well of course, being white and male is the ultimate form of existence! Take my cousin Cleetus for example. He can open any bottled beverage with either his teeth OR eyebrows! Don’t get much better than that folks.
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trashcatt_ 1 day ago +22
Its always the dumbest, most inbred looking motherfuckers that claim to be the master race too.
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sentencevillefonny 1 day ago +3
Favorite quote from Preacher.
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RequitedNonSequitur 1 day ago +7
Wow! Teeth! Plural! Having lived in Tennessee the best I could ever do was accuse someone of lying through their tooth.
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Revsfan123 1 day ago +24
Part of me hopes they man an example out of him. They won’t. But I hope they do.
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MrWright 1 day ago +3
He was charged with a shit ton of felonies so he should be pretty fucked, thankfully.
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Jeff_goldfish 1 day ago +3
Yea I just got the update and saw the video. He is clearly antagonizing. The dude is not only a f****** scumbag but clearly a psycho too. He wants to kill some one. Hopefully he’s put away for a very long time.
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BranAllBrans 1 day ago +1
Nah this guy is toast if he becomes famous yo regular black ppl
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Flash_ina_pan 1 day ago +225
It's depressingly hilarious that there are men out there that consider being terrible human beings while hiding behind guns is the peak of manhood. Weak men doing weak things.
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K-Dot-Thu-Thu-47 1 day ago +81
God damn I can't help myself sometimes here in Texas. Standing in line at a family breakfast place in a wealthy suburb of one of the largest cities in the country. Absolutely not a single thing to be afraid of other than the copious numbers of people "doing it for the gram" or what have you. Guy in front of me a few people is open carrying the biggest pistol I've ever seen. Like comically large and of course with the requisite back the blue shirt, and tribal tattoos. To the person I'm with I slightly louder than necessary say "I'm so glad I don't have to worry about my safety in here. Yeah that guy's got a cannon with him so if any bad guys show up this good guys got us covered. We can all eat our pancakes knowing that if any one wants to shoot us this guy is ready to take them and the next six objects behind them out."
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A_Nonny_Muse 1 day ago +2
That's one stack of pancakes that will never threaten you. Your safety is assured. And that guy probably has a very short and narrow urethra.
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LordYork 1 day ago +10
Sorry dude, don't mean to give you shit. Truth is you don't talk shit to a guy carrying a gun, even with a concealed carry myself. The dudes out here open carrying have a screw loose
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Bigbigbigrock 1 day ago +13
I've always heard open carry is dumb as it makes you a target. 
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LordYork 1 day ago -7
And everyone clapped.
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A_Nonny_Muse 1 day ago +3
And stupid people do stupid things. Weak and stupid often go hand in hand.
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knivesofsmoothness 1 day ago +44
At least he also shot himself.
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cherenk0v_blue 1 day ago +32
Tragically, it was only in the arm.
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Theduckisback 1 day ago +19
This m*********** is a perfect candidate to be told "you know what what? No you dont get to possess firearms". If we can do it for drug dealers, we can do it for dumbass idiots who are doing everything they can to deliberately provoke a violent altercation. Allowing him to continue to do that doesn't protect the community's rights to safety. If he gets caught with a gun he should be treated the same way a convicted felon with a gun is treated.
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selfhostrr 1 day ago +12
No different than toxic media before the Internet. Remember when Netanyahu's rhetoric got a right wing nutcase to murder Yitzak Rabin?
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chiaboy 1 day ago +5
Sounds like a rising star in the GOP
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theweekendwolf 1 day ago +1
Shot himself
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Foe117 1 day ago +458
Eatherly has made a name for himself locally trying to get social media attention by taking video of himself using racial slurs against Black people, challenging them to fight back. District Attorney General Robert Nash said Eatherly was the one who opened fire, and Eatherly appears to have shot himself in the arm in the process. Eatherly was taken into custody and removed from the scene by ambulance. The victim was going to be flown by LifeFlight. His condition has not been released.
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SoftlySpokenPromises 1 day ago +367
So an overly aggressive dickhead injured someone innocent as well as himself with a firearm he reasonably should not have had.
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icantsurf 1 day ago +3
> challenging them to fight back. This shit is so pathetic. Just antagonizing people so you can be "justified" to shoot them.
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Flash_ina_pan 1 day ago +518
He shot himself, after getting punched for being a racist prick. Not the brightest crayon in the knife drawer. Edit: Said racist prick was about to carry a loaded gun into a courthouse apparently. Further evidence of a room temperature IQ.
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LTC-trader 1 day ago +36
He carried the gun because he planned to provoke people to anger and wanted to use it as an excuse to kill someone
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sasha_the_impaler 1 day ago +12
Good thing that's easily proven because it basically makes any self defense claim he makes irrelevant lol
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Hellboy_M420 1 day ago +91
Seems like he also shot the other guy too, hope he's ok
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HoustonRH7 1 day ago +92
From the article: "The victim was flown by LifeFlight helicopter to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. He was in stable condition Wednesday afternoon. "
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RHINO_Mk_II 1 day ago +24
There goes his life savings if he didn't have good insurance.
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darshfloxington 1 day ago +36
Chud is getting charged with attempted murder. That’s an easy civil case victory
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RHINO_Mk_II 1 day ago +24
Can't garnish wages of someone locked up for the rest of their life.
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darshfloxington 1 day ago +8
I assume he has some Russian money somewhere
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ThadCastleRules_G 1 day ago -19
This guy is American clearly what are you talking about
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darshfloxington 1 day ago +21
Russia funds a lot of these douchebag far right streamers
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ThadCastleRules_G 1 day ago -5
You think Americans need to be paid to be racist?
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Dead_Internet69420 1 day ago +2
He got charged last week for skipping out on a $400 tab at a restaurant. I’m guessing he didn’t have any savings, either… lucky for him you don’t need insurance to get treated when you’re in prison. 
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Foe117 1 day ago +15
source? I dont see an update
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Hellboy_M420 1 day ago -7
Ah shit..
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Kradget 1 day ago +142
Hope the guy who punched him in the face is okay and at home having a nice beverage.
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ScrewAttackThis 1 day ago +115
They were shot
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Kradget 1 day ago +67
Well, that sucks.
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stonksuper 1 day ago +68
Another future gofundme millionaire
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sentencevillefonny 1 day ago +37
He was just awarded $40k on givesendgo
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Jonas_Venture_Sr 1 day ago +12
At least his victim will be getting a nice payday.
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Deranged_Kitsune 1 day ago +1
Ah, the grifting platform of choice for scumbags of all stripes.
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Icey1337 1 day ago +10
Well he was arrested for attempted murder and I don't see him winning this case. He probably won't be seeing that gofundme money in a decade atleast.
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Dead_Internet69420 1 day ago +1
Announcing his candidacy for the new Republican district that’s taking representation away from Memphis.
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VR_Raccoonteur 1 day ago +295
So this coward uses racial slurs, and arms himself so he can shoot people who then attack him for it? Dude should be in prison.
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ChunkyBubblz 1 day ago +104
It’s 2026 so he’s more likely to be the next ICE chief.
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Yourponydied 1 day ago +47
Reminds me of one streamer who will antagonize people in public and when confronted he has 2 beefy security guys run in to protect him
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BimboDeeznuts 1 day ago +25
This could describe so many manosphere chuds
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DirtwormSlim 1 day ago +5
F*** jack Doherty
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ubix 1 day ago +100
The very definition of a sociopath
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MrBrawn 1 day ago +39
Yep. Walks around saying some crazy racist shit and eggs people on for drama content. I think k he recently got i to trouble and was kicked off platforms so this is probably a last attempt for fame. Clout is a disease.
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Waderriffic 1 day ago +9
he was appearing in court because he was being sued.
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Slightly_Shrewd 1 day ago +10
Read the end section of the article, shoulda been in prison long ago…
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elconquistador1985 1 day ago +19
He's going to be a candidate for replacing alcoholic Kash at the FBI.
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The100th_Idiot 1 day ago +72
Instigating someone into violence with hate speech and then shooting them in "self-defense" isnt self defense. Thats a lunatic itching for the smallest reason to murder people.
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ogrejoe 1 day ago +41
He is literally asking people to fight him. He loses the entire self defence claim right there. His clear intent is to start a fight so he can shoot someone. Thats not legal.
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FunnyFilmFan 1 day ago +57
So escalating words to fists is bad, but escalating fists to guns is A-OK?? By the way, the US Supreme Court disagrees with you https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighting\_words
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Parepinzero 1 day ago +14
100% chance you say that word too
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joshdrumsforfun 1 day ago +10
Fighting words are words meant to incite violence such that they may not be protected free speech under the First Amendment. The U.S. Supreme Court first defined them in Chaplinsky v New Hampshire (1942) as words which "by their very utterance, inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace. It has been well observed that such utterances are no essential part of any exposition of ideas, and are of such slight social value as a step to truth that any benefit that may be derived from them is clearly outweighed by the social interest in order and morality." No it isn’t.
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Geno_Purple 1 day ago +8
Tell me you’re a miserable little racist fuckwad without saying it out loud.
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ouellette001 1 day ago +21
No “words”, SLURS We know you’re not ignorant
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Aldarionn 1 day ago +14
Slurs are words designed specifically to cause emotional pain to another person or group. Slurs are hate speech, and IMO should not be protected speech. Additionally, when you carry concealed or otherwise you have a DUTY to de-escalate situations and remove yourself from potentially using violence unless it's life and death. Getting decked for using slurs in public is not that. This guy deserved to get punched in the face and the guy he shot did not deserve to get shot. Full stop. This guy should be charged with attempted murder, or murder if the victim dies. Absolutely disgusting, and a disgraceful use of a firearm.
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TParis00ap 1 day ago +12
You can't act in self defense from a situation you created.  That's established law in the USA, not my opinion. 
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ouellette001 1 day ago +19
Yep, fighting words You talk that shit you get what you get
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TParis00ap 1 day ago +17
Rights come with responsibilities.  People like you prove that Americans have lost the ability to be responsible. 
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ouellette001 1 day ago +14
…Because he was shot by a shit stirring fascist You go around calling people slurs you deserve to take a lick, now he’s a murderer who deserves all that and more…
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Geno_Purple 1 day ago +8
On god go walk up to a black dude anywhere in the country and hit them with the hard R. Let us know how that goes for you. I also bet you wonder why women won’t talk to you, and you have no friends lmao.
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Sgt_Dangle_berries 1 day ago +1
If you’re going to antagonize people and instigate a fight with them, at least have the balls to back it up and throw hands, instead of hiding behind a gun like a wuss.
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thegooddoktorjones 1 day ago +13
What a peach, I assume he will have a 1 mil gofundme from the MAGA folks asap.
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ColdNotion 1 day ago +23
I wonder if the state is going to bring him up on attempted murder charges. He has a history of intentionally trying to provoke confrontations by spouting racial slurs, and went out armed into the community seeking confrontation. I would not be at all surprised if he was trying to create the circumstances under which he could shoot someone, because he feels that would enhance his popularity in the far-right spaces that like him. I’m sure he’ll try to claim self defense, but I hope this dude ends up in jail for a long, long time.
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itsmilkguysipromise 1 day ago +21
Prosecutors dig through your social media when something like this happens. He's given them a gold mine, I'd be shocked if they didn't argue exactly this. His streams won't win him any favors with the jury either.
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sikhcoder 1 day ago +16
Update in the article says he has been charged with attempted murder
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The-Titan-Atlas 1 day ago +14
He literally posted the season finale would be a dead monkey with his brains blown out. So yes. He's been planning to kill a black man for a while now
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Dead_Internet69420 1 day ago +2
…and that he’d be walking free afterwards.
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LionMans_Account 1 day ago +4
Normally, I would say No since you just have to look at who runs Tennessee. However, in this case, they will since he made the police do actual work.
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Dead_Internet69420 1 day ago +2
He already admitted like a week ago that he was basically trying get away with killing a black person. 
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Comrade_agent 1 day ago +71
was thinking it was chud before knowing it was chud. no shock at all
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jelloslug 1 day ago +50
I'm shocked, SHOCKED to hear that someone like that was involved in an altercation like that.
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cakesalads 1 day ago +4
When I used to live in Clarksville, I remember people would come to Austin Peay University and do this shit all the time. Clarksville is nice, but it's surrounded by some really dogshit towns
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dooit 1 day ago +66
So he wants someone to fight him so he can pull a gun and become the next Rittenhouse.
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Hellstorm901 1 day ago +10
The racist shot himself during the incident so knowing the US they’ll charge the person he tried to kill with the injuries he sustained from his own actions
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RB5Network 1 day ago +49
The police department literally had to put out a statement that they WEREN'T affiliated with this guy. Tells you everything you need to know about cops.
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ScreamingVoid14 1 day ago +15
Even evil has standards.
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Dead_Internet69420 1 day ago +3
He just wasn’t subtle enough for their standards. Gotta keep a certain minimum level of plausible deniability. 
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bunky_done_gun 1 day ago +13
have fun in general population lmao
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Dead_Internet69420 1 day ago
There are plenty of white supremacists in prison to keep him company. Not saying it’s a good thing, but he’s not in the kind of danger you’re suggesting. 
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ndurtschi 1 day ago +40
I knew before I even read the article. He’s a piece of shit. He’ll eventually get what’s coming to him.
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ChunkyBubblz 1 day ago +26
A spot in Trump’s cabinet…
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jbruce72 1 day ago +28
Sherman didnt go far enough. Maybe if he did we wouldn't have idiots like you who think its okay to act like he was
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ShroedingersCatgirl 1 day ago +13
>District Attorney General Robert Nash told Clarksville Now that Eatherly was the one who opened fire, and Eatherly appears to have shot himself in the arm in the process Incredible. Not only is he a racist pos, but he's so incompetent with a firearm that he literally shot himself. Thats extremely funny.
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StopReadingThis-Now 1 day ago +32
This corny b**** looks like he's trying to cosplay a Union Officer with that haircut and mustache.
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The_Shryk 1 day ago +17
Confederate, but yes I agree.
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cherenk0v_blue 1 day ago +32
If he cosplays a civil war officer, zero-percent chance it's a Union one.
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Dead_Internet69420 1 day ago +1
He looks like a “mixologist” at the local hipster bar. 
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helmvoncanzis 1 day ago +2
2010-2014 hipster thing. Dude is just a decade late and t-bill short.
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TelecomPedestal 1 day ago +3
Someone on twitter basically said that this was going to happen to this idiot soon and sure enough. What an idiot he can’t even cite stand your ground since he instigated.
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HousingOk6362 1 day ago +19
So he showed up to court armed ?
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Time_Lord_Omega 1 day ago +7
These racist maga fucks always have the same dweeb ass looks to them.
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Blueskyminer 1 day ago +6
Color me shocked that a guy that looks like that couldn't finish what he started. And shot himself.
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ladymorgahnna 1 day ago +10
I love that he shot himself!
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Civil_Future_2095 1 day ago +3
I rapid read it "investigated" rather than "instigated" and had a LIGHTNING FAST emotional reversal.
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ChudMuffin420 1 day ago +3
As a Chud we do not claim this Chud
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UraeusCurse 1 day ago +12
Haahahahahahahahahaha! Look at his face!
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RobutNotRobot 1 day ago +6
> District Attorney General Robert Nash told Clarksville Now that Eatherly was the one who opened fire, and Eatherly appears to have shot himself in the arm in the process. Responding deputies took both men into custody. This is how you know the other guy was black. He was shot badly and they still arrested him. Meanwhile this literal chud shot himself in the arm with his own gun.
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CenTexTrashPanda 1 day ago +4
Isn't this that dude that loves to get pegged by black women?
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Supernova_Soldier 1 day ago +8
Damn He missed his head instead of his arm For those unaware, this piece of shit is Chud The Builder, a racist streamer who goes around calling Black People the N-word. This was inevitable, as clearly he wants to provoke people so that he can kill them in the name of self-defense, and that’s if he’s not being a mustached p****
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MichaelHunt009 1 day ago +17
Temu Rittenhouse shot himself in the arm?
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ips1023 1 day ago +1
I don't know if that's the best description. He calls himself a "real n\*\*\*\* " on stream while harassing people about white supremacy things and Jesus. Even Rittenhouse wouldn't do that.
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llvlleeks 1 day ago +7
I'm presently staying in A$hland City, not to awfully far from Clarksville, and I gotta say... these backwards-ass in-bred redneck mfers are almost ubiquitously racist. It sickens me. My dad, my neighbors, my grocers, my local politicians--all racist pieces of shit. I was at a late-night social gathering, a bonfire, if you will, and after about the 50th use of the N-word, amongst other grotesque slurs in the conversations, I finally spoke up. I was very obviously pissed to the point I was ready to fight. I said if one more m*********** says anything racist, get ready to throw down, 'cause you're about to get punched in the f****** mouth. It was the most uncomfortable thing I've ever experienced, and sadly I had to leave shortly thereafter since I had ousted myself and my threat had no effect on 'popular opinion'. It was f****** weird, scary, and disgusting. The shit is beyond ignorant and it has GOT TO STOP--period. We are beyond this shit... Some tradition must die, some culture MUST STOP.
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LegendCatcherFreeman 1 day ago
Record them and publish it to YouTube. If they're in a public space saying these things, it's fair game. Maybe some Meta glasses that you can use for 30 days and return. I've done that with a 360 cam. Took it on vacay, got some great footage, then return to Amazon for full refund. Free rental.
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whatsittooya456 1 day ago +2
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thefanciestcat 1 day ago +6
>District Attorney General Robert Nash told Clarksville Now that Eatherly was the one who opened fire, and Eatherly appears to have shot himself in the arm in the process. Another one of these very responsible, capable gun owners we hear so much about.
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Tibbaryllis2 1 day ago +2
In a better country/world, the legislation would have caught up with the 2020s and classified these asshats instigating violence on social media as the clear and present danger they are attempting to instigate calculated, pre-meditated violence/murder.
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UnusualFunction7567 1 day ago +2
From the article and the charges against him, it appears that the cops do not believe this was a legal use of force to defend one’s self. Hope he has the book thrown at him.  He’s a bad example of a gun owner and people who behave like this give bad names to all the responsible gun owners.
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Wrigley953 1 day ago +3
Gofundme for the real victim?
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matt_on_the_internet 1 day ago +1
It's always the ones you least expect
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TonightVirtual7765 20 hr ago +1
It's a shame Chud missed his face when he shot himself.
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Gooeslippytop 1 day ago
Didn't something come out about him literally f****** black guys?
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cedarvalleyct 1 day ago -4
I can't even compare this clown to Cheddar Bob, a simple fellow who shot himself bravely defending his rainbow coalition of Detroit pals against those Free World chumps.
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Whygoogleissexist 1 day ago -1
I thought Tennessee was the volunteer state because they volunteered to fight the British in the war of 1812. What happened to their oath to the constitution?
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Bobbert84 1 day ago -43
Don't know the situation. But to be clear you are allowed to say racist things and not be attacked for it physically. That is certainly not okay. Hurt feelings should not lead to the right to do violence. If we allow them for one thing we need to potentially allow them for other things. Then suddenly every assault becomes potentially legal or any assault could be defended in court by the attacker claiming 'they said so and so, which justified my assault'. And unless it is proven they didn't, saying that they did may be enough for reasonable doubt of their guilt.
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Kid_Ichorous 1 day ago +9
Context matters. Terrorism has consequences. Ideally, it would be “legally” curtailed before it successfully provokes a predictable “illegal” response. Infinite patience in response to abuse is an unrealistic expectation. We should be using collective resources to deescalate before the obvious occurs. “Talk shit, get hit” is a cliche for a reason—it’s a reflection of the human condition in the state of nature, which is what we devolve to when society fails us.
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butterfingahs 1 day ago +14
"Allowed"? Legally maybe, though I disagree. Should you expect to? Lmao no. You go around antagonizing people, you WILL be attacked. A matter of when. Not if. 
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fu_snail 1 day ago +14
Except this was premeditated. He posts on social media about how he tries to get black people to attack him so he can legally kill them. If your intent is to get someone to attack you and you’ve posted this to the entire world I’m not sure it really is self defense when your intention is to instigate violence against you. I’m not a lawyer so I don’t really know it would play out in court.
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DeepRoot 1 day ago +2
Tell me you didn't read the article w/out telling me you didn't read the article. Who assaulted whom? Who is the attacker in your statements above?
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Bobbert84 1 day ago -1
The article doesn't say who assaulted whom. There is no proof of who assaulted who first. I am assuming if a punch was thrown, which people seem to agree it was, i doubt it was after he was shot through. and that somehow stopped the shooting. But i will wait until all the facts are in to make a final judgement. The statement above is not claiming to know what happened. the first words 'Don't know the situation'. No one but the people there know for sure what happened and i am sure both will tell the version which paints them in the best light. Hopefully we get some video. I am just saying if he did attack Eatherly first and was shot, which is think is probably the most likely thing from a purely logical perspective, that is not okay. And his racist comments do not give others license to attack him. I don't think that should be a controversial position.
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DeepRoot 22 hr ago +1
Although you make a few good points, I have disagree w/ the overall sentiment. You and I aware of the first amendment and there is no protection from consequences but the caveat is not to yell "Fire!" in a theater. This guy was yelling "FIRE!" and then dared someone to do something by brandishing and fired upon an unarmed man whom he provoked. You're right, I don't have all the details but, from the article I read, most of it, if not all, was self-inflicted. Your points are excluding his known history.
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