Picture that... a 21 year old coming back from walking to 7-11, drinking a sweet tea.
Some fat dude with hand on 9mm starts calling me asshole and punk, chasing me 2 blocks in the dark. Goes around the building to intercept me, blocking me from getting (to GF's) home safely.
21 year old is scared - this guy isn't a cop, but he has a hand on gun and has chased then cut me off. 21 year old draws his weapon and shoots the man on the dark streets. Prosecutor reviews it, listens to 21 year old say he was scared of this unknown man with gun chasing him for blocks - and fired in self-defense...
the 21 year old wouldn't be charged.
Bullshit. It'd be the SAME situation. It's your word, without proof. It's the same situation. You're still standing over a dead guy when the police arrive.
I've always thought of you as intelligent but your conspiracy theory nonsense and your willingness to draw conclusions where this is not enough evidence to be sure of anything - it smacks of stupid. Using sentences like "if I were a juror.." - oh boy, you would never be a juror, you're too taken with the story and the romance of getting angry about it.
It isn't necessary to choose a side - you know nothing that conclusively proves the nature of the final encounter. You don't know either person - so you have absolutely no idea whether the man is a liar, or not. You simply do not know, yet you assert what happens because some nutjob whacked out a few mspaint pictures to support the romance of a direct confrontation, at the choice of the fat mexican. Fuck yeah, let's believe the juiciest rendition of this sordid affair!
What you can say is that the man most definitely had a large hand in someone's unnecessary death and that's really what manslaughter is about.
I remember Rollins being interviewed about the WM3, back in the day, when he was going out and playing shows to support their legal fees. Even with the documentaries and whatnot, the guy had the good grace to say "Look, I don't know if these kids are guilty or not guilty - but I know they didn't get a proper trial and that's what I'm about". That's class. That's how to be objective and that, my friend, is how to stay smart.
(It's also how to not believe in Jesus, but that's another story
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