Posted on 10/21/2020 12:23:58 PM PDT by Who is John Galt?
Matthew Dolloff, 30, the unlicensed security guard working with a news crew for 9NEWS, the Denver NBC affiliate covering a protest in downtown Denver on October 10, had bond set at $500,000 yesterday after he was formally charged with Second Degree Murder in the shooting death of Lee Keltner who was an attendee at the “Patriot Muster” rally.
Dolloff will have to post the bond before he can be released from the downtown Denver jail, where he has been since his arrest at the scene of the shooting near the Denver Art Museum...
Some at the scene [of the shooting] defended Dolloff’s actions — including the Denver Post photojournalist who captured most of the events in a series of “burst” photos as the confrontation unfolded — claiming that Dolloff only fired after being sprayed with some form of “mace” or pepper spray. But looking at the still photographs posted by the Post in sequence it is clear that Dolloff was already reaching for his weapon, and adopted a “shooter’s stance” before Keltner began to spray in his direction. A more compelling argument can be made that Keltner only sprayed in response to what he saw as a threat to his life — Dolloff pulling out a deadly weapon. [emphasis mine]
Other video not yet released to the public — including surveillance cameras around the Museum — is known to exist and likely contradicts the Dolloff-friendly narrative...
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
The general statement was you can not be justifiable in shooting someone because they had sprayed you.
Never, can not, always are hard statements to make stick in all cases.
And this is exactly correct. Now you can add in or change the scenario to anything you wish, but that's not the case here. Don't believe me, go to some protest, get hit with pepper spray, and then open fire and shoot to death the person who did it, and see what happens. Be sure to report back.
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