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NEWS: Power Rangers Wild Force Actor Ricardo Medina, Jr. Arrested for Murder

IGN has now reported on this. So the news of his arrest is spreading really quick.

He actually called the authorities himself, I commend him for not running away. Shows the man character. From what I read, this is just a sad case of a life lost on accident.

mdo7 wrote:

IGN has now reported on this. So the news of his arrest is spreading really quick.

Considering it was already on the "main" mass media shows such as CNN and such yesterday, I think it already had spread quickly...

I wouldn't bet on that.

That assumption isn't a guarantee. Even if that is true, I think you would need some solid evidence to support your claim of a fear of imminent peril. When it is a stranger, sure I mean you don't know them so logically you don't know what they might do. That he was afraid his room mate and probably friend might either kill him or cause great bodily injury, I'd require more than just his say so (like a history of violence, or maybe a specific reason he thought his roommate might take the altercation that far).

Pulling Power Rangers over this would be like pulling Star Trek off the air over John de Lancie getting accused of murder.

The other guy would have had to have been trying to kill him or had a weapon himself to warrant pulling out a samurai sword and stabbing him in the abdomen. I find it a little hard to believe that he did it purely out of self defense but I guess there is always more to the story. I just wonder why his first line of defense was a samurai sword. Like was it decorative or meant for self defense? Either way you would think he would have grabbed a blunt object or something to defend himself rather than a samurai sword why was that thing closest to him?

I disagree. I can't really "commend" somebody for doing the bare minimum of what is expected. Whether it was murder or self defense or something else, the expectation is not to leave a dying person nor flee the scene. Doing either of those would be cowardly.

Except that in most murder and manslaughter cases, the killer DOES leave the area in hopes of not getting caught. And that's true for lesser crimes as well, such as hit-and-run accidents, selling drugs, robbery, and vandalism. It doesn't make sense for the person to do it to just stand there and get arrested.

I've worked in a store with a lot of glass and porcelain items, for instance. When a guest breaks a vase or a cup or a plate or something, I really don't mind; accidents happen. But nineteen times out of ten, they flee anyway (well, if no one's watching, they quietly step away), because they fear they may get in trouble. If they're afraid of the repercussions for something as insignificant as broken glass, I think the chances of a killer staying by the dead body is incredibly slim.

Nicktoons has replaced Samurai/Super Samurai with another Megaforce/Super Megaforce.

Now, if one person does come out, and then another, etc. until it snowballs, then the victims often feel as though they're in a united front, rather than going it alone. Very few people could withstand that public backlash alone, and in situations like those were the victims are already feeling vulnerable about what happened to them, they truly feel that there is safety in numbers.

I'm not doubting that at all. I'm just saying that I don't think it's a commendable act to call the police after stabbing somebody, regardless of the circumstances.

So you're saying stabbing someone is never commendable, regardless of whether or not it was in self defense like this probably was?

He didn't just voice Deker, he played him as well. Deker was in human form more often than his monster form.


Also, at least at first glance, this seems clearly a case of self-defense.