[Jamestown1630]

My brain is doing flip-flops over the notion of ‘senseless but justified’. If something is justified, there must be sense behind it.

But - I’m going to bed, now....so....

[BenLurkin]

All I can figure is he means it was senseless of Scurlock and accomplices to attack the victim.

[lightman]

The deceased was doing stupid zhit = senseless

The stupid zhit gave sufficient alarm for a clean shoot = justified.

[RedElement]

Videos show G retreating, but letting S know that he was armed. Scurlock attacked G, and was choking him. All of this is senseless.

G fired warning shots, then the real deal. Justified.

[sport]

It was senseless because the man was trying to take for his own another man' property. It was justified because the man had to defend his life and property. He met his demise because he was attacking a man with a gun to deprive him of his rightful property. If the decedent's family had taught him to keep his hands off other people's property, they might still have him.

His father said that he went out to protest racism. His idea of protesting racism was to take someone's property. That did not work out for him. The D.A. made the correct call.

[TalBlack]

My brain is doing flip-flops over the notion of ‘senseless but justified’.

Most or all of the warriors I’ve ever read, no matter how gung-ho commented at some point on the senselessness of war. The sheer waste of human life.

[liberalh8ter]

When the presumptive Democrat Presidential nominee advocates for police to only shoot people in the leg when encountering an “unarmed person with a knife”, statements like “senseless but justified” soon follow.