Vigilantism is a dumbass move especially if the person at worst was doing a stakeout to look for places to rob, at best the wrong place, wrong time.....
So you think it's OK to chase and then shoot someone that simply was in the neighborhood looking hinckey?
I shed no tears for him, once he went for the gun all bets are off, never should have gotten that far.
The assertion of "Vigilantism" is what too many people are focusing on, and it is irrelevant to the salient aspect of this case. The salient aspect of this case is that one man physically attacked another, and the man being attacked had a shotgun over which a struggle for life and death ensued.
The man holding the shotgun eventually overcame and shot the man struggling to take it away from him, and did so consistent with the well known concept of "Self Defense" within the law.
So you think it's OK to chase and then shoot someone that simply was in the neighborhood looking hinckey?
Firstly, they did not "chase" him. They parked in the street leading to the exit from the neighborhood and waited for him to show up, which he eventually did.
Secondly, they were not interested in him because he happened to be running while black. They were interested in him because they recognized him from previous videos they had seen of a man going into that house and stealing things. He had also been spotted several times in the neighborhood at night in between the houses where he didn't belong.
He was caught on video in October, in December, in January and in February, and in that neighborhood there was $2,400.00 worth of fishing equipment stolen, a purse and a handgun during this same period.
Now it is possible there was another thief, but the reasonable man would regard this as unlikely, and the man caught on video was *THE* thief they were looking for.
I shed no tears for him, once he went for the gun all bets are off, never should have gotten that far.
He never should have attacked the man with the gun. That is suicide, especially if the gun is a shotgun.