Look t the video was he in an alley way? No. They can say what they want. Reality is a bitch! He could have chose the brave sir robin route, but didn’t
What they says matters. If they didn’t feel he had an escape route, that lowers their legally available use of force. And they said he was trapped like a rat.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/defendant-ahmaud-arbery-trapped-rat-slaying-81085944
“He was trapped like a rat,” Greg McMichael said, according to a transcript of their recorded interview Nohilly read in court. “I think he was wanting to flee and he realized that something, you know, he was not going to get away.”