My thoughts based on the videos, the decedent running towards armed neighbors, physically attacking them and attempting to disarm them? These are not the actions of an innocent jogger. And him going into private homes under construction supports this. Construction sites get ripped off ever day...They’ve always been big targets for thieves.
I don’t chase and shoot shop lifters. These guys didn’t own the construction sight and weren’t on their property. Using deadly force requires more than two armed individuals running down someone then getting in a fight. A lot of bad choices were made. Ultimately charging a loaded shotgun was the final one. Sad damn deal.
The State will argue that Arbery had a right to defend himself from armed aggressors.
My thoughts agree with you about the main event. But just because he entered a house under construction doesn't prove anything to me. I used to go into houses under construction in my neighborhood all the time just to look at the layout. There's also video of him inside the house, but I didn't seen him take anything.
1. These two shooters weren’t the police.
2. They were not on their property, defending it and themselves.
3. They were on a public street, armed.
4. The armed men exited a vehicle and confronted an unarmed man.
Two armed men who are not policemen exited a vehicle and confronted an unarmed man. They were not defending their property. They were not defending themselves against deadly force. They chased down with multiple vehicles and “cornered”. There is no possible way you can paint the unarmed man as the aggressor. This guy very quickly deduced that he was in mortal danger.
I will submit that the black guy might have been up to no good.
But it is damn bad policy for a bunch of civilians to just grab guns and go chasing after a misdemeanor suspect. Nothing good can come of it.
Now let’s look at it from the black guy’s point of view. Yeah, maybe he just stole a hammer. But then some civilian comes pulling up in a truck and brandishes a shotgun. Had the black guy survived - and had he said that he moved on shotgun guy because he thought he was about to be shot - I would have believed black guy.
Enough with these wanna-be cops. If you are being attacked, defend yourself, of course. But if you just see - or suspect - a crime, call the real police. Don’t take your guns to town (Johnny Cash reference there).