Right. Quite a few freepers here that are loving making up scenarios and actions that they have no proof of (and keep repeating it over and over and over). He was screaming at the wife, attacking the wife, always at the parking lot policing it, did it a bunch more times...yada yada.
There is no substantiated proof of any of that and until such time people should only use the facts they have and all there is currently, is the video. The video shows he was justified to shoot.
This really is a disturbing thread, because seemingly rational people on both sides of the argument are making statements about the sequence of events that just are not true. Or they highly exaggerate or they minimize. For example, the "push" was not just a "push", it was a VIOLENT blindside push, sufficient to Drejka to the pavement in a tumble. (It sure did not look to me like a practiced sort of smooth defensive roll - he went down and over in a heap.
There are other disturbing statements and accusations too: One is that FReepers are racists. Yes, some FReepers are racists, but most are not. Some FReepers state that McGlockton "deserved" to die. That also is ridiculous -- what he "deserved", IMO, was a knee in the groin followed by a vicious right uppercut. But, Drejka was in no position to so defend himself. (That is aside from lacking the stature, physical capability, and youth, to engage in a brawl with McGlockton.) McGlockton not deserving to die, however, has NO bearing on whether Drejka had the right to fire at that moment.
I analyzed the vid at some length here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3672750/posts?page=193#193
here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3672750/posts?page=217#217
and here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3672750/posts?page=308#308
Eh, I should clean that up:
... the “push” was not just a “push”, it was a VIOLENT blindside push, sufficient to knock Drejka to the pavement in a tumble. (It sure did not look to me like a practiced sort of smooth defensive roll - he went down and over in a heap.)