re: Body cam footage of police interactions with Ahmaud Aubrey

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Which explains them both having loaded weapons, and one was sitting in the bed of a truck. One of the first lessons in gun use I was taught was that you don't chamber a round and take off the safety until you intend to fire it.

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In your head, whats your confidence level the McMichaels saw themselves holding him at gunpoint and never foresaw shooting him? I'm guessing it's quite high.

There are very few people in the country who possess the racial animus to contemplate, much less conduct, a lynching. It's extremely uncommon, and it's simply not very likely that the McMichaels are in that camp. That's just playing the odds, and not even factoring in the significant evidence that this was the product of misguided and reckless vigilantism.

Few people dispute that these guys are stupid, reckless and a disgrace to everyone who wants the liberty to use firearms to defend themselves and their property. So applying reasonable standards of firearm use to them is a misapplication IMO.

Keep in mind that none of the above removes the relevance of racial bias/prejudice, or the other injustices you discuss. But it does, IMO, remove the most core component of "lynching" - and use of that label is counterproductive to a socially meaningful conversation about this case.