One reason I joined FR, aside from the volume and quality of knowledge of the posters, was the “get all the facts” attitude. People would dig and burrow for facts but wouldn’t form hard opinions until the facts were known.
Seems that is somewhat missing these days.
And I'm sorry, but I have to say it. I believe that if this was a poor white kid who was chased by two armed black guys in a truck and the situation played out exactly the same, some of the same people in this forum would be absolutely excoriating the armed black guys in the truck and saying the poor white kid was simply defending himself.
It's natural for people to defend people who look like them.