[Leaning Right]

> The sex of the person coming at you is utterly irrelevant. <

I’m going to make a legal, not moral, argument. Gender might be irrelevant here. Disparity of force is what matters. The man was badly outnumbered. That’s a point in his favor at the trial.

But he was much bigger and stronger than the girl who lunged at him. That’s a point against him.

And he answered a weak shove with a solid punch. That’s another point against him.

The DA will bring that all up. And that’s what will get him convicted.

[MrEdd]

He was defending his wife and daughter.
The DA won’t be able to hide that.

[drpix]

Apply what you see as logic to the actual jungle rules that have taken over on in so many of America's streets and malls, and see were that gets you...

A solitary Cape buffalo is attacked by a pack of hyenas.

The Cape buffalo was badly outnumbered is a point in his favor.

The Cape buffalo was much bigger and stronger than the hyenas that snapped at his throat is a point against him?

The Cape buffalo answering weak snaps with a solid crushing kicks is another point against him?

... If nature applied your point system the world will have a whole lot fewer Cape buffalo and a proliferation of emboldened and super aggressive hyenas.

American society could not survive adopting that system to its streets and malls.

[Twink]

He’ll get convicted because he’s a white man who hit a black girl (and he’d be convicted if he hit a white girl too).

[fuzzylogic]

Hmmm...not what I saw, he was first shoved from behind - seems to be the same young girl that then got up in his face saying something. His response was a *warning*, to get away from him by giving a firm push, this should have been enough of a warning but the child then ran at him with fists in the air.

I don’t believe the girl was 11, if so that is sad in itself. If he felt threatened, which I believe he had every right to be, he had every right to defend against a charging attacker - I don’t care who it is.

[cuban leaf]

Something that must be taken into account is that human beings are not robots. We are very much emotional beings. And it plays an important part in “fight or flight”. It is not reasonable to judge another person’s actions without taking into account the context of the situation.

And he didn’t answer a weak shove with a solid punch. He answered her running at him from a fair distance with a punch that stopped her in her tracks. He seemed to have identified the aggressive member of the pack of coyotes and did the right thing. There appears to have been no other violence after he nipped it in the bud.