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.
That young man is 14 years old. It is NOT legal in the State of Illinois for a 14 year old to possess a handgun. He doesn’t have a FOID card, which is needed in Illinois to posses a handgun, or ANY firearm.
Self defense my a**. In Illinois, shooting someone in the back doesn’t count as self defense, especially if the person being shot is running away.
This is wrong on so many levels. BUT, it’s Chicago, so……