realist1 wrote:
He also stole a TV while on probation for taking a gun to a basketball game. He's not some law abiding hobby jogger like our dishonest media portrays.
What he did years previously does not matter. 100% not relevant.
Now what he did immediately prior to this would be relevant if the two guys who killed him knew he had committed a felony. But they didn’t. Say a rape had occurred and they had witnessed it or knew it had occurred and tried to arrest the guy who did it. If that guy then lunges at them they shot him they likely wouldn’t be charged. But that isn’t what happened here .
They played cop in a situation that my reading says the law says didn’t warrant it.
And if one of the other guys had been at a KKK rally (not proven either) does that change things? It just makes it worse because race surrounds this case. If a white guy was jogging in khakis would he have been pulled over by these guys? We will never know.
But moral of story is if you pull a firearm on someone and kill them you’d better have a good reason to do it and most people seem to agree this case doesn’t meet the standard as the standard for citizens arrest appears high in Georgia.
Some won’t care if they think a crime had just been committed but that’s not what the law says.
I don’t think these guys went out trying to kill someone but it ended tragically . They should have been charged and they were.