Complete non-sequitur. There is no way for him to tell if the perp was able to regain his composure, pull out a gun, and kill the pharmacist. Whether or not he was running around frantically while waiving his arms in the air has no relevance. Like I said earlier, you people would have given Bernie Goetz the chair.
All the pharmacist had to do to make sure the perp didn’t do anything, was pull up a chair and keep the gun pointed at him. If he moved, BLAM.
The kid may have been black, but he still wouldn’t have been able to move faster than somebody who has a gun pointed at him and his finger on the trigger.
You people? I don’t know who Bernie Goetz is.
And you don’t try people on possibilities, but on actions. The pharmacists actions warranted a trial and the jury warranted a conviction.
It would seem the jury did determine that he wasn’t going to regain his composure and shoot the pharmacist. So far as I know the only witness the defendant called was an ME who said the robber “might” have been dead after the first shot. They could have argued this case much better, but chose not to for a lesser charge.