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Proportionality, for one. If someone is throwing marshmallows at you, a person is not privileged to shoot the thrower. Immediacy is another. You can't wait to use deadly force.
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Originally Posted by jazzarama
I guess the video you saw edited out the the attacker going behind the counter, shoving the bodega man, refusing to let him leave, and grabbing him behind the neck.
None of what you mentioned is deadly force. So why use deadly force to defend against such?
Proportionality, for one. If someone is throwing marshmallows at you, a person is not privileged to shoot the thrower. Immediacy is another. You can't wait to use deadly force.
None of what you mentioned is deadly force. So why use deadly force to defend against such?
So, you think that someone should have to wait until they're actually being killed to justify defending themselves?
If the Bodega guy had a reasonable fear for his life or great bodily harm.....
Then yes, deadly force is justified.
Play stupid games......win stupid prizes.
This is Hamilton Heights. It's not the most pleasant place. Workers are constantly getting attacked. That poor girl at the Harlem Burger King, shot and killed over nothing. Anyone working in these places should have a reasonable fear that when a dispute happens and some knucklehead comes around the counter to your cashier side and shoves you, that your life is in danger.
People need to remember this DA and hold him accountable.
This is Hamilton Heights. It's not the most pleasant place. Workers are constantly getting attacked. That poor girl at the Harlem Burger King, shot and killed over nothing. Anyone working in these places should have a reasonable fear that when a dispute happens and some knucklehead comes around the counter to your cashier side and shoves you, that your life is in danger.
People need to remember this DA and hold him accountable.
This is all well known by the people that live and work in that area, lots of violent, sometimes fatal beatings.
A decent lawyer is going to trot out a 61 year old man, note the size and age disparity, note that they said (remember the gal was there too) were going to eff him up, cornered him and note how especially in that neighborhood getting beat to death is a real possibility.
He defended himself with what he had on-hand.
Jury is going to barely have enough time to order lunch before acquitting that one.
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