Some woman tried to tell me that DW stopped MB because he was jaywalking and then shot him. I, of course, couldn’t get a word in edgewise because of her diatribe about how he wouldn’t have been stopped if he were white.
If your fellow “conversationalist” had paused for a moment to take a breath (or given you opportunity to posit your POV),s/he might have had a moment to...oh, I don’t know...THINK!
Mustn’t do that, now...