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I think him going after the tubers is the most import part. He's trying his best to explain it away, but he engaged them and that escalated the situation. The girls escalated it further, but if he never charges the boys, none of this happens.

"Going after" and "charging" are just not accurate from the video I saw, or at least disingenuous. He was drunk and stumbling around looking for a phone (I think that's what it was). The guy he killed grabbed him by the throat and he was knocked down in the water, hit in the head, and surrounded. Nothing he did elicited that level of response.

The camera man lying that he was creeping on the girls probably incited it as much of anything and it was a complete lie.

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Posted by Piebald Panther

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Posted on 4/9/24 at 2:29 pm to CatfishJohn

I'm watching his testimony and seen the video presented by both sides. I see a guy going after kids and then not leaving when he could have.

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Posted by nvasil1

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Posted on 4/9/24 at 2:37 pm to CatfishJohn

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"Going after" and "charging" are just not accurate from the video I saw, or at least disingenuous. He was drunk and stumbling around looking for a phone (I think that's what it was).

This. According to the testimony, the teenagers told him to get away from them, so he began walking away, then one of them called him a "raper". The prosecution didn't even dispute that.

That's when Nicolae turned around and approached the tubes again because he suspected one of them had the phone.

This post was edited on 4/9/24 at 2:38 pm

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