- When the boyfriend - who was a fit 28-year old - came out he saw a hunched over decrepit looking specimen of a man 6' away from the door of his car arguing with his girlfriend inside that closed car door.
[Lower left: door opening]
- Only when the girlfriend could see her boyfriend coming out, did she open her door and come out and get in the face of the older guy from another direction, distracting him from her approaching boyfriend.
- The boyfriend then bull rushes the distracted guy - who never sees or hears a sound from the boyfriend's approach - and blindside slams the guy to the ground. What kind of twenty-something thug does it take to do this to a man so much older and less fit than himself?
- Contrary to others' claim the GIF shows the boyfriend then moved in on the downed man and did not stop moving in over the downed guy till he began drawing his weapon. Then only when the weapon is fully drawn does he backup a little - but then only after it is TOO LITTLE TOO LATE.
- Anyone who's shot a handgun qualification course would remember the close-range quick draw drills/segments that call for a draw and fire in one motion of 2 rounds in 2 seconds (and/or 3 seconds). That means that at close range you don't draw unless you are justified to fire and you don't draw to hold you gun out when the threat is close enough to grab it or knock it away in a split second.
For the couple, a verbal argument quickly triggered a well executed move to surround, distract and launch a surprise physical attack on a older out of shape guy. Anyone who has watched any of the countless videos of ghetto group attacks against their solitary victims knows they always begins with a knockdown and are always followed by a stumping that results in "death or serious bodily injury."
Those actions of the couple being against a physically lesser man, who was legally armed, gave that man the "reasonable belief" of the "imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury" required to use deadly force. That deadly shot changed the reasonably likely outcome a legally unprovoked physical attack...
...JUST AS THE COPS CALLED IT!
SECOND: Even those of us who are fit and skilled enough to 1st try a hand to hand response to a big thug's ambush attack, should want those who couldn't and would be easily overpowered, incapacitated or killed to make sure they are not - so that gun doesn't get into the hands of the thug:
THIRD (Some new information): If you were interested in the "community" allegations and police reports (that did not justify criminal charges) which the media chose to reveal... you SHOULD BE also interested in the actual police arrest record of the thug who 1st assaulted the shooter, which the media chose to conceal:
6 Florida arrests for "Markeis Mcglockton" showing similar photos and the same DOB of 3/28/90 (and now 28-yrs old):
[ Determining whether he has a record in other states in recent years is beyond my resources and definitely something that the media would rather conceal than reveal.]