No self-defense here. The guy should have stayed in his truck.
Smell the coffee, Joe.
1. The forensics gleaned at the crime scene showed a clear case of aggression by the person shot who was a clear and certain threat to the shooter.
2. The shooter was a trained neighborhood watch patroller.
3. The neighborhood watchman communicated the problem to the police.
4. Police could not catch the thieves without citizen help.
5. The neighborhood watchman was bushwhacked by the person he'd just questioned.
6. The bushwhacker told the neighborhood watchman he was going to kill him.
7. The bushwhacker broke the neighborhood watchman's nose.
8. Then the bushwhacker beat the neighborhood watchman's head into concrete and wouldn't stop.
9. As a last resort, the neighborhood watchman successfully retrieved his gun and shot his assailant.
10. After an all-night questioning, the neighborhood watchman was set free because his story description matched the forensics evidence they gathered at the scene.
11. A re-examination of the forensics evidence showed it was a clear case of self-defense.
12. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, the money-hungry race-baiting jackals of the black community decided the case would get them more money and laws passed to protect black criminals from people they assailed.
13. The prosecution decided to cooperate with Sharpton and Jackson and file charges in spite of the on-the-ground police report.
14. The prosecution illegally withheld evidence that the youth had a burgeoning file of run-ins with the law and photographic evidence of his thefts they found on the assailant's phone. The jury never saw these facts.
15. Omission of facts is a lie.
16. In spite of mistakes by lawyers on both sides, the judge proceeded with the case.
17. Even with omitted evidence, and after long consideration of charges, the jury agreed with the initial police report showing CLEAR self-defense. Even the woman who hated the neighborhood watchman agreed that self-defense was established that was clear and irrefutable.
18. The jury was instructed to follow the law. They did.
This is a nation of the rule of law.
Politics, however, eat people's brains away when they are instructed by party to pursue anti-law and chaotic upholding that excuses some and prosecutes others.
Since it is politically expedient to keep black voters, the Democrat Party has sent people to every public forum in which politicized matters are discussed.
Me thinks thee protesteth too much, Joe.