re: The Truth About Ahmaud Arbery

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I was agreeing with you ... I thought.

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Sorry, I didn't catch the sarcasm.

The other side's arguments are so insane regarding this topic, I guess it's hard to tell the difference.

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I would say someone trying to take your gun qualifies under this.

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No, man, just no.

If you block the road while brandishing a weapon, you are committing aggravated assault against anyone who drives or walks up. That gives the assaulted the right to defend themselves, not you.

Per Georgia law:

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(a) A person commits the offense of simple assault when he or she either:
(1) Attempts to commit a violent injury to the person of another; or
(2) Commits an act which places another in reasonable apprehension of immediately receiving a violent injury.

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If someone blocks you from proceeding down a public road and they have a gun, are you telling me you wouldn't feel like you're in danger?

And since aggravated assault is a felony, if you end up killing someone in the commission of that crime, it's murder.

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It's almost like he was a criminal who had just committed a crime and the last thing he wanted to do was talk to police.

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None of this is relevant to the charges because it all comes down to whether the McMichaels witnessed an offense or had immediate knowledge of it, the evidence as exists does not provide them a solid platform there and Georgia vigilante law requires they have tantamount to probable cause to arrest the person if it's a felony and that person's escaping. Even the best, most realistic case scenario doesn't help them because Arbery most likely committed a misdemeanor by being on that property (criminal trespass) and therefore they shouldn't have pursued, can only pursue and arrest for felonies. Moreover, he probably didn't know the police were even called and saw these two rednecks with guns following him and admonishing they wanted to talk to him.

The shotgun in his hand?

Where do you think it came from?

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pursue and arrest for felonies

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Illegally entering a dwelling with Intent to steal is a felony.

We’ll see if the evidence gets us there.

They didn’t witness that and they didn’t have immediate knowledge of it.

You don’t get to play cop you have to know the crime happened.

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None of this is relevant to the charges because it all comes down to whether the McMichaels witnessed an offense or had immediate knowledge of it, the evidence as exists does not provide them a solid platform there and Georgia vigilante law requires they have tantamount to probable cause to arrest the person if it's a felony and that person's escaping.

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None of that matters regarding the murder. Let's say they didn't have the right to make a citizen's arrest. If someone tells you that they want you to stop and they have called the cops, you can either wait for the cops, call the cops yourself, ignore them, or keep running. The criminal "jogger" instead decided to attempt to attack. That didn't work out well for him.

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It’s deeply disturbing how many of you want so badly for these two idiots to be found innocent

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I want the truth (you don’t)

If running man was intent on tying into it with the driver who had exited the truck, why didn't running man simply veer to the left and head straight to driver side to begin with?