The flip side of working a corruption of blood, asserting white guilt just because “white”, is to eventually work an innocence of blood ... assigning innocence to “black” (in this sort of case) because, well, simply because.
In this particular case the truth is that once two armed men had “citizens arrested” the man, no matter how disrespected he might have thought it was he should NOT have attempted to get the gun away from one of them.
That was simply DUMB on his part.
He should have waited for the police to safely remove him from the custody of the two men or tried to reason with them. Or just sit there and sulk and feel prejudiced against till the situation got resolved. Had he done that he would be alive and have had his 15 minutes of fame on the news for what he said to the cameras rather than where he died.
Once he had grabbed for the gun all bets were off because at that point the older man really might have thought he could be in danger ... or he could believably maintain that he thought the intent was to kill him with his own weapon where his only intent had been to detain someone he thought could be a thief.
The dead man may not have been a criminal (I make no judgment) but he, faced with a bad situation, acted stupidly which made the situation worse and the result is that he got shot.
‘but he, faced with a bad situation, acted stupidly which made the situation worse and the result is that he got shot.’
which is precisely why if the prosecutors bring a murder charge they will lose; or more correctly, should lose...reckless endangerment is the most they can be charged with now, based on evidence...