A ninja moment
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I wonder. Once mortal combat begins it's incompetent to stop before absolute certainty of victory. High adrenaline and fear can also explain some extra zealotry.
I've heard it said that if you're going to fight back in defensive scenarios, you may as well kill them, because if you don't, they'll sue.
Or pull a gun in their last moments of life to take you with them.
Yes, but that's not a legal argument. In fact, saying that in court as justification is a fucking terrible idea.
It may be additional rationale, but I'd imagine the best bet is to just stick to the explanation of adrenaline and self defense. Don't say you wanted to kill anyone; you wanted to defend yourself, and were (correctly) worried they were still a threat to you.
EDIT: Oh and, most importantly, don't say ANYTHING AT ALL without your lawyer present. Don't be like Alec Baldwin.
Cops are trained to shoot center mass (at the vital organs) and to keep shooting until the threat is stopped. The fact that this is one of the best ways to kill someone is incidental to stopping the threat.
Every single self defense trial where a prosecutor tries to argue that the defendent should have been able to calibrate his use of force to the exact moment that they believe (after the fact) that it was no longer needed should have the local police's use of force procedures thrown right back in their face.
I disagree. This is a clear strong armed robbery (a forcible felony). He also specifically said he was afraid that when the robbery began the guy would draw a gun. So it's okay articulation.
It's not great situation, and his ass is likely still going to trial, but I think if you put this in front of a (non political) jury, he'd probably get completely acquitted. As we've seen from NYC, even when shit is legally suspect, the fact that there is popular support for the store-owner can be enough to get him off.
Black Lives Matter figured this out years ago. That's why they advocate for so many explicit criminals. Pressure alone can get prosecutors to back down.
His jury trial will hinge entirely on how many Asians, Hispanics, and non-leftist whites are on the jury. Every black and leftist white juror will vote guilty no matter what. That’s where we’re at in America now. That’s what “racial justice” looks like.
You don't understand how many black people are okay with ghetto trash getting shot.
'He's a masked man robbing a store, from his clothes I believed he was armed and I wasn't going to wait for him to point a gun directly at my face. At that point it's too late. You don't risk your life to give someone else the benefit of doubt'.
He kept stabbing him because the guy didn't go down. It was a little box knife or something like that. Once he went down he stopped. Note how it's "the right to self-defence" and not "the right to stab a maximum of 2 times"?
Hmm yeah, it's not a box cutter but a small fold out knife.
There's no such thing as a "warning stab". You keep going until they're no longer a threat; even if they're dying, they can still take you with them or do serious harm in their final moments.