Those aren’t stills of him attacking anyone and trying to take away their shotgun. Burgling a construction site is not grounds for deadly force. Assault might be, depending on the facts.
“Might work but I very greatly doubt it. Depending on what judge they get, the judge will either be part of the mob or afraid of the mob.
The chances of them getting a brave Judge who will do the right thing are pretty slim in my estimation, but I could be surprised.”
Appeals courts are usually panels of several judges. But, yeah. That’s life. They might spend the rest of their lives in jail, or get old sparky. These guys were not Rittenhouse, though. They should have just observed him and phoned it in. Story isn’t over.
That was covered in the video that got everyone worked up.
Burgling a construction site is not grounds for deadly force.
Of course it isn't, and they weren't using deadly force until he attacked one of them. The grounds for using deadly force are a physical assault from a clearly stronger man while attempting to wrest away a gun.
They should have just observed him and phoned it in.
Everybody's a genius in hindsight. Officer McMichaels had previously dealt with hundreds of cases like this guy, and he did what he thought was reasonable at the time.
Can we agree that none of us would have expected a man to run up and punch someone holding a shotgun?
Anyone reading these messages, please tell me if you would have predicted that a man would run up, punch a man holding a shotgun and then try to wrestle the gun away.
I think 99% of the population would not see that coming. It was the behavior of an insane man, or someone out of his right mind, perhaps because of drugs. (Which we know Arbery was under the influence at the time.)