You’re right, he should have had a fair trial for his trespassing charges. No one is right here. |
I never said it wasn't self defense. What do you think would happen if the jogger got a hold of the rifle? |
Idk but he would still be the one with a claim to self defense. They were chasing him. |
| No matter how many times this happens, bigots who are sympathetic to the shooters will introduce some irrelevant event that happened earlier to justify bigots murdering an unarmed black man. Every. Time. |
No one goes to trial on trespassing charges. It’s a citation. |
He was wearing Nike tee is shoes. |
It’s a common deflection tactic. |
Ah, the old “There are fine people on both sides” argument. |
And an attempt to create a false equivalency (trespassing = murder). Pathetic. |
| I think the narrative about his jog is going to change and I wish people would wait before they push those stories. The guy didn’t deserve to get killed (or even arrested by his fellow citizens) but I think it’s going to come out that he wasn’t jogging in cargo shorts and whatever shoes he had on and I think it will damage the way the crime against him is perceived. |
Is there a longer version of this? |
People are only innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. You don’t need a court to tell you they are guilty of murdering somebody. Also it’s not trespassing. Kids fit my lawn all the time to get to the basketball court behind my house. Being on my lawn is not trespassing. |
Yes and it’s disgusting. They did not have the right to murder him no matter what he did. That’s what I said at the beginning and I will continue to say it- there is simply no justification for this murder. |
It’s not because you allow it. A construction site - even if it’s unfinished - is private property. He was trespassing. No bones about it. Because other people do it, or there’s no lock on the door, that’s irrelevant. I’m certainly not saying he deserves to die for it, but it is trespassing. |
| I grew up in a neighborhood where all the houses were new mcmansions being built. As a kid we would play inside the houses - like 10 kids playing hide and seek. I got a nail through my foot twice (ouch). Nobody ever told us to stay out of the houses or mentioned it was trespassing. I guess an adult should know better, but it honestly didn't occur to me that there would be anything bad from just stepping onto a construction site to look around. It's very interesting - I have to admit I would be intrigued to look how a house is being built in my neighborhood and it would be difficult for me to not wander in once or twice to see how things are going. Perhaps this guy was doing some other shady stuff but the video to me means absolutely nothing. |