I'd say the American police being so out of control that it even requires these protests is what's to blame. If they just trained their officers better, rooted out the bad apples themselves and actually responded correctly when these shootings happen then these riots wouldn't have happened to begin with.
The problem isn't so much that the cops let people riot, its that they give people no other choice than to riot.
No they'd still happen. They've happened in the UK too.
Oh, I have.
But I have also been clear that, in my perspective, his degree of self defence in the instances only really alters severity of the manslaughter he is responsible for.
I just hope for your sake you never end up held to your own standards after a break up where your family and threatened and you end up acting with the attacker ending up dead.
Is it at all normal to double check with a witness that they are happy with their statement after it has been given, for instance provide them an opportunity to expand on it if they remembered more details?
I'm guessing not too normal to ask them to change their statement though......
Looks like the Defense won that one. 2 weeks earlier, Kyle said he wished he had a gun on him to protect property in a previous instance. You can't use deadly force to protect property. But this is far more prejudicial than probative.
Suppose Kyle said, "boy, I hope I get to shoot some innocent people at a protest rally 2 weeks from now!" If you've proven beyond a reasonable doubt the guy was, in the particular charged instances, reasonably defending himself from potentially deadly harm, why would previous statements matter? If he did something particularly inciting to cause people to try to harm him, that has to be what is entered into evidence. Not statements made weeks earlier.
It's trying to bias the jury to colour their perception as such
Why illegally acquire a gun that he thought looked cool? Why travel 20mins away from his home to a protest? Why identify himself as a trained security officer and join an armed militia group to patrol the streets, issuing orders as if they're real law enforcement? Why become a vigilante?
Guns are pretty simple tools. They can be used for one thing. He wasn't walking around with a gun intending to bake bread. He wasn't going clean a pool with the gun stock.
If he picked up a gun off the ground after being attacked and opened fire, that would be one thing.
He didn't though. He already had a loaded, illegally acquired gun and was acting in an official law enforcement capacity. That's a pretty strong indication of what he intended to do.
So 5th or 6th time correcting your utter horse shit again.
Kyle was coming of WORK IN KENOSHA when he went to the protest.
There is 0 evidence he portrayed himself as a trained security guard he joined friends answering a call for people to protect part of the neighbourhood and the lot in question.
Police were absolutely aware of them and even thanked them for turning out and were allowing them to act and fine with them acting as such.
Kyle was NOT nor were the "Militia" doing any "Patrolling the streets" like you claim. They were at a lot and stayed at the lot except when Kyle fled TOWARDS POLICE LINES after the first shooting
Why be a vigilante? Because the night before Kyle had stayed at a friends house in Kenosha and they could smell the fires from the friends house and saw it as no-one was stopping the destruction happening
