“Stupid thug attacks a man and gets shot”
You like leaving a lot out? Guy attacks someone he credibly believes is going to kill him anyways...how is that? In at least some cases, Georgia law allowed common people to arrest someone. That law has been rescinded but it was the law at the time. Did the dead man know that loophole? I sure didn’t. Men threatening to kill me over nothing HAVE NO RIGHT TO SELF-DEFENSE.
In most states, and in Georgia now that the law has changed, this would be an open/shut MURDER case. I’d find it very hard to acquit them based on “Maybe the law allowed them to pursuit the guy” - and I’m a foaming at the mouth 2nd Amendment guy.
I reject that assertion. Arbery ran towards the truck and the armed men in it. He could *SEE* them. He could *SEE* their guns. I am now convinced Arbery believed those men would absolutely not shoot him, and this is why he showed no fear of them.
Men threatening to kill me over nothing HAVE NO RIGHT TO SELF-DEFENSE.
Cops do that routinely, but if a man attacks a cop after he says he'll "blow his head off", the cop would be regarded as justified in shooting the attacker.
Arbery was a "gangsta thug" and he didn't believe those men had the guts to shoot him. He was probably encouraged in thinking that because the elder McMichael in the back of the truck could have shot Arbery at any time, but did not.
I’d find it very hard to acquit them based on “Maybe the law allowed them to pursuit the guy”
The "pursuit" has nothing to do with it. So many people want to focus on that bit of legal hairsplitting instead of considering only the significant issue of the case; That Arbery charged at a man holding a shotgun, struck him in the face and attempted to wrest his weapon away to be presumably turned on it's previous owner.
At the point Arbery attacked the younger McMichael, it became a very obvious case of life or death, and Arbery initiated it.
With that said, I think too many Americans have become cowed into being p*ssies who think letting thieves get away is a reasonable thing to do.
Arbery was a thief. He should have been pursued, he should have been accosted, he should have been detained, and he should have been arrested by the cops when they finally arrived.
That is what *SHOULD* have happened, but Arbery tried to attack a man when he should have either ran away or complied.