Is it ever OK for a white man to defend himself against a black man in the eyes of racist?
Are you talking to yourself now.
Do you have an answer? Do I as a white man have a right to defend myself against the black person? Using deadly force?
The question is situation, not race. For example, in Georgia again, there was a woman who had three men enter her home. She shot and killed one of the three. Nobody charged her with a crime. Nobody even considered it.
Those men were black. What was the difference? First the woman did not jump in her car, or truck, and set off searching for the baddies. Second, they were on HER property, in HER home. Even if they were not armed, the shooting would have been no problem legally speaking. Gwinnet County is up around Atlanta by the way, where all the Blacks you are so terrified of are in abundance. Yet, no protests, no marches, nothing.
The situation, was totally different. The woman was not the aggressor. The woman was not breaking the law confronting the others. The woman was minding her own damned business and that is the difference. Not the colors of the participants. Not the race of the people involved.
What is really killing you is that even in Georgia, we don’t allow people to shoot others for some made up bullshit reason. We have laws that are basically extensions of the old rule. Live, and let live. Mind your own damned business, and don’t bother nobody. The McMichaels set off as Vigilante’s and bad news for them, the laws that got them in trouble, stemmed from the Civil Rights era. When Georgia had endured enough of the Masked morons running around protecting whites. So they passed laws, so that a group of armed white folks outside a home of a black man could not claim they weren’t doing nothing when the cops drove by.
So now, those laws are decades old. And they’re working today just as they were intended before. If you are armed, handle it safely and properly with restraint. Don’t go running around causing problems, or you’ll have the problem. If you’re attacked by someone, and you’re not doing anything illegal, yes, it is Self Defense, and have a nice day. If you’re doing something wrong, and somebody dies because of what you are doing, well enjoy your stay in the Grey Bar Hotel. Because that is where you’re going.
You’re looking at this as a black versus white thing. It isn’t. They were not confronting a thug, they were harassing a man who had committed no crime in their view. They were attempting to commit the crime of false imprisonment. They were committing the crime of Aggravated Assault as it stands at this moment. That means they do not get to claim self defense.
Let’s say you accidentally walk into the wrong apartment. You see a black guy and shoot him. Should that be legal? He attacked you when he saw you in the apartment right? Well. You should not have been in his apartment. You had no business being there. So you can’t claim self defense.
If Arbury had come up on the McMichaels land and attacked them there, nobody would be saying a word about it. Oh there would be a few on the internet, and maybe a news report or two, but nobody would be facing charges. If the McMichaels had been at a store, and were attacked in the parking lot, nobody would say boo at it. But the McMichaels were in the middle of the street committing two felonies, and that means they were not innocent folks minding their own business when they were viciously attacked. They were the thugs. They were the criminals. And that is why they are arrested, and that is why it is most probable that they will be found guilty in a trial.
Because in Georgia, you don’t get to pick a fight, and then claim self defense. I was afeared for my life only counts if you were really innocent and minding your own business legally. They weren’t.