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[–]BISH 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Sounds like self defense. Is he obligated to get his ass kicked by someone breaking the law and using violence?

Sometimes, yes.

Shooting someone who is physically assaulting you is well within your rights, whether they are armed or not.

This is false.

Deadly force can only be legally used in a neutral setting to respond to deadly force.

Anyone who takes a conceal-carry course will learn this fact of law.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

This is false.

Deadly force can only be legally used in a neutral setting to respond to deadly force.

No, this is false.

"[a] person is privileged to use such force as reasonably appears necessary to defend him or herself against an apparent threat of unlawful and immediate violence from another."

When the use of deadly force is involved in a self-defense claim, the person must also reasonably believe that their use of deadly force is immediately necessary to prevent the other's infliction of great bodily harm or death.

You only need to be able to justify that you believed you were at immediate threat of great bodily harm

[–]BISH 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

reasonably believe that their use of deadly force is immediately necessary to prevent the other's infliction of great bodily harm or death.

The court apparently thought his life wasn't in serious danger, or great bodily harm.

Getting your ass kicked doesn't qualify.

[–]EuropeanAwakening14 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes, because the aggressor was black. Explain the case with the firefighter, anti-White.