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"His target pulled out a small knife, and then used it to stab him several times as he tried to grab her,
Doesn't sound like a 1 squeeze and run juvenile act. It sounds like he was actually trying to assault her. When she chased after him hopefully she didn't stab him anymore. Ok to thwart the attack, not okay to attack once the threat is gone.
When is the threat gone? That's a matter of perception and so what, the threat was within her range of vision so it wasn't gone now was it? Its like those hormone ridden teenage boys who come lurking around your daughters bedroom windows at night. One of them has an "accident", steps on a rake or bear trap in the weeds, word spreads.
Women do fight back, but some of us are much smaller than our attackers.
I'm 5'11, so I'm taller than most men, but I'm also 125 lbs and small framed with very little muscle, so I don't think I'd be able to fight off an attacker with just my bare hands.
I don't know the details, but it would be hard to justify lethal force for simply being grouped.
We would need a lot more details before we could know if this level of force was justified.
You don't know his intention so the stabs would be justifiable under a defensive response. Now the part that she chased him....then that would get a little dicey if she caught up and then stabbed him a bunch since that would no longer be defensive. But the initial stabs, I don't see it...especially given a jury attitude towards some dude assaulting a jogger.
Way different than a bar argument that turned into a stabbing type thing.
Well, I would think all she would have done was convince LEO/Legal that she thought her life was in danger. You do that, and you are covered I think.
However, this whole thing about chasing him down the street and loosing him in an alley .... that changes it. The perp has left, is running away, and she is no longer in danger .... that could bring her motive of self preservation into question when she starts chasing him. Now he could be seen as the victim trying to save his own life.
do you think the same about the church neighbor in texas who shot at the shooter? should people just let others get away because they themselves are now safe? hopefully he has to go to a hospital and the cops will BOLO for him there.
I heard everyone thinks that neighbor is a hero.
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