they called the cops and wanted him to wait and talk to them,,,,
When Arbery refused to stop or comply with illegal and immoral demands by two armed white men, it should have been the end of it. That’s if you believe Arbery has the same rights and freedoms as the two white men who killed him because he refused to comply with their criminal demand to ‘stop and wait’. You apparently suffer from the same concept that White Privilege is a privilege that needs to be maintained.
The killers had all the options to de-escalate the situation if they truly, but ridiculously wanted the police to talk to him about a crime they did not see him commit.
The video shows Arbery jogging. That is cIear in the video. There is no indication that he was trying to flee the two goons who were attacking him until Goober Jr got out of the truck and Approached him. . I doubt he could run faster than the truck. The killers could have simply followed a jogger and reported his location to the police.
But if the cops did their job they would have asked the Goobers if they Witnessed a felony. When they said “no”the cops shouid have said take your guns and go home before someone gets hurt.
there was nothing illegal or immoral about what they did,,,
I wont bother reading the rest of your rant,,,
Actually they committed the crimes. The McMorons were brandishing firearms. That is illegal in Georgia. Brandishing is defined as handling weapons in a dangerous manner.https://www.thestate.com/news/nation-world/national/article240853751.html
So the McMorons committed a Felony. Just getting out of the truck to confront the jogger they committed a Felony. Dad committed it in the back of the truck waving his gun around. Aggravated Assault. Felony.
In Georgia it is legal to pull your firearm only in self defense while in public. The McMorons were the criminals. From the moment they began to chase the Jogger they were acting in a criminal manner.
Sorry. But the law is pretty clear on this. The only reason they were not charged was the Good Old Boy Network.
It is no different than the us versus them cliques in any area. The cops are special. We take care of our own. It is telling that the GBI made an arrest about ten minutes after arriving. It was obvious that the McMorons had committed numerous crimes.
These are things that any even moderately intelligent concealed weapons permit holder learns. You do not pull your weapon except as a last resort. If you do you are going to jail.
They are talking about changing the law. Because right now if I pull my weapon and the guy attacking me stops and I do not fire I have still technically broken the law. It is unlikely that I would be convicted. Unlikely that I would be indicted. But it is possible.
The only defense is that it was reasonable to pull your firearm when you pulled it. However when you pulled it the situation changed and it was now unreasonable to fire.
It was not reasonable to be in the back of the truck with the weapon in hand. It was not reasonable to exit the truck with the weapon in hand. It was not self defense. No claim of self defense can be claimed when you initiate the violence. It was not stand your ground. It can not be stand your ground when you pursue someone.
I know this is hard to hear. But by Georgia laws. By common sense and any definition of reasonable. The McMorons were the Felons.
For somebody who lives in Georgia you sure don't have much of a bead on Georgia law. I will now (from my living room in Florrida) correct your mistakes)
1. Exiting a truck is not initiating violence. If it was prisons wold be 1000 times bigger than they are. It was Arbery who initiated the violence, as the video shows.
2. Even brandishing a shotgun is not illegal, when you use the gun in slf-defense, as McMichael did.
Thomas Weaver, a gun rights activist and Cherokee County resident, said current law carries a lower penalty for a gun owner who shoots someone in self defense than someone who pulls out a firearm.
“If you shoot someone dead and legally claim self defense and you prevail in that, you’re off scot-free,” Weaver told lawmakers.
“But if you show someone that you’re armed and you don’t shoot them dead, it’s aggravated assault and a 20-year felony.”
Since McMichael's brandishing was together with use of the gun in slf-defense he broke no law, wither by firing the gun, or brandishing it.
BTW, the brandishing law is on its way out. A Georgia Senate panel has approved legislation that would make it legal for a gun owner to pull or show their firearm during a dispute as long as he or she doesn’t “aim it offensively” at someone. The bill, which was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee on a 5-3 party-line vote, also would allow licensed gun owners to carry their weapons in churches and in courts when there are no judicial proceedings.
3. There is no such thing as "White Privilege" as long as race-based Affirmative Action still exists, and Black Privilege is alive and well.
4. The McMicheals were not criminals, nor did they act in any criminal manner. Chasing after someone whom you simply want to talk to, is not criminal in any way.
5. When the
"situation changed" (by Arbery attacking McMichael), that is exactly when it became REASONABLE TO FIRE. (in self-defense).