A jury has found a delivery driver not guilty in the shooting of a YouTube prankster who was following him around a mall food court earlier this year

  • PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I’m happy he didn’t die over this, but I’m also kind of happy he got a little fucked up over it.

    I tend to think about these situations with small people as the initial victim. How far should a smaller person or woman let something go before they can defend themselves? If the person is way, way bigger, do you just have to let yourself get beat?

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      1 year ago

      He’s still making videos, so apparently he didn’t actually learn anything from the experience

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      1 year ago

      I honestly don’t know what the right answer is here. I don’t like that it seems like it’s easier to shoot someone because of a threatening feeling. This makes me think of Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman. People will say these are completely unrelated cases but both involved a shooting and a claim of self defense. Again I don’t know what the answer is.

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        1 year ago

        In that one I think ol’ zimmy kinda deserved it and I wasn’t happy with the charges/trial results.

        I don’t think it’s the same at all, though. Zimmerman was the OG aggressor. He fucked around, found out and got butthurt and killed a kid.