[Bulwinkle]

After seeing the video, I can’t blame the kid… big guy punching your mom in the face = kid not guilt.

[A_perfect_lady]

I guess the DA decided that some people just need killing. (shrug)

[Clutch Martin]

Illinois law was upheld. Not only stand your ground, but defending someone who is being attacked. This is a good ending.

The family is filing a lawsuit against the city for 5 days of incarceration. But it was based on evidence at the time. Cell phone vids showed up and exonerated. I don’t see a big payday. But... who knows?

[leaning conservative]

Those were head trauma punches. I’m surprised she was able to walk after that.

[rlmorel]

Part of me agrees, but probably because regardless of what happened after that encounter in which the guy punched her, society is better off without a jackass like that walking the streets.

But I also suspect there is a racial element involved, because if they had been disparate races, the result may have been different.

If a white woman and her armed son had chased a black man into that parking lot and shot him in the back, I don’t think charges would have been dropped.

Also, as Freeper skywise says, it isn’t self-defense any longer. That young man may have had a legal license to carry and a legal firearm, but the way most laws are written, that action would have invited a jail term.

That said, I am satisfied with the result. The deceased won’t be punching any women standing in line for food anymore.

[NorthMountain]

As a juror, I will not convict anyone of any felony in connection with taking out the trash.

[Mr. K]

Brown[dead man] ran from the store as Hood’s son allegedly continued to fire. The teen and his mother followed Brown to the parking lot, where she told her son to keep shooting Brown and to kill him, prosecutors said.

And KIM FOXX (where have we heard that name before..)declines to prosecute.. It's open season there...