He ran the risk of getting killed because he didn't want any trouble. That speaks volumes about the way citizens are treated in New York.
Yes it does doesn't it. In a liberal paradise like NY and most of the northeast states a crime victim who injures or kills his or her attacker with a gun is considered guilty until proven innocent. If the victim is white and the criminal isn't, the victim is still guilty in the minds of the liberal judges even after he/she is proven innocent.
I imagine a lot of good NY LEOs have bleeding ulcers because of the frustration they suffer by risking their lives to bring crimnal dirtbags in only to see a liberal judge let them off scot free because of some minor technicality he/she found in the lawyer-speak lingo of the state law books.