[GJones2]

>> ...but also requires that the defendants have been justified in pursuing and attempting to detain Mr. Arbery. <<

That’s not my interpretation of self defense, and they never actually made an arrest. Earlier they’d tried to get him to stop, so as to delay him until the police could arrive — because they correctly identified him as the man wanted by the police for questioning for entering the house at night more than once (almost anyone might stop and look at a house under construction during the day, but being caught on infra-red video in the dark is something else).

The question is not whether he ever stole anything, though. He may very well have not. And it’s not whether he deserved to be killed simply because of a legitimate suspicion of, at least, trespassing and possibly theft. Of course a killing would be justified for that, and that’s not why he was killed. If so, he’d have been killed earlier. He was killed because he chose to attack McMichael.

[GJones2]

>> Of course a killing would be justified for that, and that’s not why he was killed. <<

I meant — Of course a killing would NOT be justified for that, and that’s not why he was killed.

[DiogenesLamp]

The question is not whether he ever stole anything, though. He may very well have not. And it’s not whether he deserved to be killed simply because of a legitimate suspicion of, at least, trespassing and possibly theft. Of course a killing would be justified for that, and that’s not why he was killed. If so, he’d have been killed earlier. He was killed because he chose to attack McMichael.

Excellent summation.

[Leep]

Unless you are a unarmed women in the Capitol building.
Then it’s okay to shoot a trespasser.