First of all the black dude is not normal....he has a mental history, a felony conviction and when he was killed he was in violation of his parole.
Not relevant in any way.
A normal innocent person's reaction to being stalked by men with guns is to get away from them, and then defend themselves if they can't get away.
The dead man acted like any normal innocent person would, like you would in the same situation.
What nonsense you espouse....do you think anyone believes you.
By your standards, if you didn't instantly submit to any gun-wielding person, it would okay to kill you, because you're obviously guilty.
Your standards are clearly stupid and evil.
why would you say that? that isn't what happened. so you should watch the video. it has all the evidence of the incident one needs.
Ok. Taking only the video. A deranged white guy with a fellow deranged individual in the back both of whom are armed and acting reckless are in the street. They are noticed by a fine upstanding citizen who fearing a mass Murder is taking place attempts to save the lives of his fellow citizens and risking his own life charges the armed lunatic unarmed to save lives.
using only the video and nothing else. Prove I am wrong.
so from the video you can tell two people are deranged? wow, you're talented. the courts would love you.
Using only the video with nothing else as you said we had to there is no way to accurately know what happened. There is nothing to say absent any evidence or information from any other source that it did not happen exactly that way. So now what evidence are we going to accept? Just that which helps your narrative? Or all of it which makes your narrative sound as stupid as my description?
well what do you see from the video? why can't you just address the video? I see two guys, one outside the driver door with a weapon, a guy in the truck bed standing up, the truck is stopped and in the middle of one lane, a black man running toward the truck from quite a distance. I also know another vehicle is following the blackman running. I see the black man run toward the driver side of the truck, seems to react to the man with the weapon and runs around to the passenger side of the truck, his path seems to circle to the front of the truck and attacks the man who moved around the driver door. Puts his hands on the weapon, the weapon fires, he continues wrestling with the man and his weapon while punching him in the head, and the weapon goes off again, continues wrestling and punching and while the struggle continues, the weapon goes off one more time hitting the guy who was jogging, he releases the gun and staggers away and falls to the ground. Now you tell me what you see.
Why were the people there? Why were armed men in the middle of the road and blocking the road and circling to cut off the black man jogging? Using only the video, and nothing else. They could have been a lynch mob couldn’t they? Going to kill a black man for sleeping with a white woman?
In the video you can see what happened in a few short seconds of time. You do not get the information that brings context to the events. You don’t get the information that the McMichaels were breaking the law. You do not get the context that Ahmad had entered and left empty handed a house under construction. You do not get the context that the McMichaels saw Ahmad run by and saw nothing else, no criminal activity, and then rushed to get guns and chase him down. You don’t get any context from just the video.
So how you see the video, with no context from anything else, is that two armed white guys in the middle of the street armed and apparently chasing a black guy are attacked. Without any context, that may seem reasonable. I wonder why? I wonder why those guys are there. I wonder what the hell they thought they were doing. I see it and know by Georgia Laws they are breaking the law waving those guns around in public like that. I watch it and know that by Georgia Law, they are in a lot of trouble. Watching nothing but the video, I see a lot of things going on, and Without the context the attack by the black guy is another thing I would wonder about.
The problem is that I have the context. I’ve been reading it a lot. Not just here, but many many other places. And knowing that I have read about the dangers of weapons in public, extensively read about it, long before this, I know that there is a lot of criminal activity in that video.
Here is your problem. You refuse to admit that Georgia law says what it actually says. You don’t want to believe that the White Guys did anything wrong. No matter who tells you they did, no matter how many sources are posted, you just will not consider the fact that these two idiots broke the damned law doing what you wish more people would. If more people did, I’d have my taxes increased in Georgia to afford the new prisons to hold them.
Now, maybe the Brandishing Laws are too narrow, and too restrictive. But for now, that is the law on the books. If we ignore those laws, claiming they are unfair, do we do so for everyone, or just your heroes the McMichaels?
It took a few seconds of my life to search your threads, and about 80% of them are about "bad" cops. You've got an obvious problem. Nothing you say about cops in any context can be taken seriously.
Who knows? You probably got busted a few times and have a weak-ass vendetta. Sorry, the thug is dead and he brought it on himself. The courts will agree, unless the jury is stocked with the likes of you.
Earlier in this very thread I posted that I was most often posting about bad cops. I explained why, and have done so consistently many times. Mostly because I detest injustice.
Now, to this case. I don’t think they’ll be found not guilty. If there are one or two staunchly White are automatically right, I think it will end up as a hung jury. But the text of the law supports the position I have taken. The McMichaels did commit Aggravated Assault. That means since they were committing a crime, they are not able to claim Self Defense. That explains the Murder Charge as well.
My opinion and posts have all been based upon Georgia Law. The law that covers this event. Not race. In one post I highlighted the long history of corruption of the County, but that is all. Just one.
I posted links to where other cops are quoted as saying that this was not self defense, and it was aggravated assault. I have posted links to the text of the law, and articles about the law. I have posted where the McMichaels lied in their statements to police.
What haven’t I done? Said what the McMichaels should have done. After the shooting, they should have shut the hell up and asked for an attorney. But Daddy figured his position as a Retired Cop would get him a lot of slack, and it did. Then Daddy’s attorney screwed up royally and released the video. For anyone who knows about gun laws in Georgia, it is an obvious criminal shooting.
I don’t care that the victim is black. I don’t care that the shooters are white. I don’t care. What offends me is the good old boy network trying to prevent any justice in this event. What offends me is the misconduct by the prosecutors, issuing instructions and restrictions on the police after they have decided and recused themselves. That is misconduct. As you said, I always object to misconduct.
The reason is simple. The Constitution. Those rights contained within that document are only as strong as our determination to protect and defend them. It is telling that everyone swearing an oath about the Constitution, swears that they will protect and defend it. That includes your First Amendment Rights, and the rights of anyone else. It is my duty, as a citizen. It is my duty, because the oath I swore when I joined the Army, had no expiration date.
What is funny to me, is that the same people who are arguing that the Constitution and Laws don’t matter here, are the same ones objecting that a cop who posted a video on YouTube and Facebook about his fellow cops were violating the Constitution was fired. Odd isn’t it? That they care so much about the Constitution and the law on one subject, and don’t give a damn about it at all in the very next subject.