Why was there a struggle over the shotgun?
Who gives a ****. What was the shotgun out there for when the man was jogging. Why were they following him? They ain't police.
Doesn't matter, these fools think because you are white it automatically gives you authority over folks who are not.
Just as many fools think they have a right to attack white people.
Well when you chase them and threaten them with a gun.
He attacked an armed white man for the same reason Michael Brown tried to get s service revolver from a cop. A firm belief in black superiority.
No, I see it more as a fear to his life which was point on.
No one in fear of their lives tries to grab a shot gun from a man who just drew a bead on you. Only someone who believes they have intimidated the gunman. Now why would he think that NOTHING would happen?
It is true that a cornered Rat will fight. Even when they are outsized tremendously. The animal will fight. When walking in the woods in bear country, you are supposed to make noise, so you do not startle a Bear. That is the most common, and most likely cause of a Bear Attack.
It comes down to the mix in humans of Instinct and Intellect. Our higher minds tell us the situation, but it is our instinctive minds that must choose between fight, or flight.
Remember the school shootings? We always laude as a hero the unarmed Teachers and Staff and sometimes students who move to protect others. Impossible situations where they have to cover too great of a distance to reach the gunman. But they do so. They charge unarmed into almost certain death. We called the cop who didn’t go in a coward During the Parkland shooting didn’t we?
If AA felt cornered, threatened, and believed he would die if he did anything else, then attacking even against overwhelming odds, becomes the only choice you have. If he stops, who knows what will happen. Two armed men, according to the Daddy, said they just want to talk to you. Would you believe them? I know I wouldn’t. They chased me down, and are holding firearms. I may believe that I have one chance in a hundred, or a thousand if I attack. But right then and there, those odds look better than stopping and letting two men who have chased me down with guns get me.
You have to trust that these unknown men, armed, and trying to chase you down, mean you no harm. What evidence would you have for that? I know they have no business doing this. Add to that the common knowledge that Glynn County is rather corrupt even by Georgia Good Old Boy standards. I have no idea what is going to happen if I stop. I can’t outrun the truck. I can’t outrun the bullets. Of the options left, attacking those attacking me, is probably a long shot, but is it a longer shot than letting these idiots get their hands on me?
If I am lucky, perhaps they will just beat me half to death. But what they might do, is unknown. What I do know is that they have armed up and chased me down. The idea that they mean me no harm, is not in evidence. The idea that they are acting legally? Not in Georgia. Everyone knows you can’t do that these two idiots are doing. So if they are willing to break this law, what laws won’t they break?
That is a vital key. Is it reasonable to assume that AA knew that running around town threatening people with firearms is illegal? I have never met a Georgian who thought it was ok. That is white and black folks. So I think it is reasonable to assume that even if he didn’t know the law exactly, AA knew that the two white guys in the truck were breaking the law.
What is telling is that Daddy tried the Police Lies. He treated the incident as if he was a cop, which he has not been since his authorization to carry a Firearm was revoked more than a year ago. It was revoked because he did not go through the annual training and qualifications. Along with it went his powers of arrest. But he phrased the event as if he was still a cop. Reasonable suspicion was tossed out, and all of that. But in Georgia, the cops have much more authority and leeway than a citizen. It is legal for a cop to draw his weapon and hold a suspect at gunpoint. It is not legal for a citizen to do the same. For a cop, reasonable suspicion may give you the authority to chase down a suspect and force him to stop. But for a regular joe CivilIan, that does not apply. If McMichaels was still a cop, he would have identified himself. Police, stop. Then AA would be a fleeing felony suspect.
But Daddy wasn’t a cop anymore. If he shouted it, he did not admit it during the statement. Smart, since in Georgia, impersonating a Police Officer is pretty serious. If you tie it up with the rest of the potential crimes, then Daddy’s bones would be in prison for twenty years after he died.
If Daddy did not identify himself as a Police Officer, then it was two citizens committing crimes to try and illegally detain another citizen. In which case we can discuss the wisdom of stopping and going with the armed criminals, or fighting back against impossible odds to try and survive.
And as fighting back is something every woman is told to do in case she is attacked, why is it insane to think that a man would not want to be taken by two armed individuals? The Federal Government says that women have a lot of reason to be afraid of an attacker, armed or unarmed, who is trying to Rape them.
NCJRS Abstract - National Criminal Justice Reference Service
If the McMichaels said the word arrest, then they might have a very slim chance at a successful defense. But according to their statement, they only said stop, stop, we want to talk to you. Their aggressive actions put their words in the category of a lie to anyone hearing them.