Long-time Austinite. The DA is corrupt. The defendant made some judgment errors in his defense posture. I was sickened to learn of the guilty verdict. I think BLM caused a very dangerous situation for anyone in that area of the "protest" that night downtown. I would have reacted similarly to the defendant if my vehicle was surrounded by a mob of angry BLM protestors who were keeping me from leaving and who were banging on his car and yelling who knows what at the defendant. The idiot who was shot and killed was brandishing, not just carrying according to one of the LEOs on the scene earlier that evening, an AK and approached the driver window with his weapon on full display while yelling at the defendant. In that case I would hope that my training and judgment would allow me to either de-escalate verbally or pull my weapon and shoot to kill. I wasn't there so it's all a guessing game. But hell yes, you come up on me with a weapon with a big mob of fellow idiots agressing my vehicle and you're going to get the wrong end of my exercising my self defense rights. Gov Abbott has filed an expedited request with the Texas parole and pardons board to review this case and issue recommendation as to pardoning as is required before he can actually pardon the defendant.
Long-time Austinite. The DA is corrupt. The defendant made some judgment errors in his defense posture. I was sickened to learn of the guilty verdict. I think BLM caused a very dangerous situation for anyone in that area of the "protest" that night downtown. I would have reacted similarly to the defendant if my vehicle was surrounded by a mob of angry BLM protestors who were keeping me from leaving and who were banging on his car and yelling who knows what at the defendant. The idiot who was shot and killed was brandishing, not just carrying according to one of the LEOs on the scene earlier that evening, an AK and approached the driver window with his weapon on full display while yelling at the defendant. In that case I would hope that my training and judgment would allow me to either de-escalate verbally or pull my weapon and shoot to kill. I wasn't there so it's all a guessing game. But hell yes, you come up on me with a weapon with a big mob of fellow idiots agressing my vehicle and you're going to get the wrong end of my exercising my self defense rights. Gov Abbott has filed an expedited request with the Texas parole and pardons board to review this case and issue recommendation as to pardoning as is required before he can actually pardon the defendant.
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