I can respect your viewpoint. I'll be honest, I've stayed away from this topic and I tend to stay away from one's where there is a lot of emotions involved with the case but the case isn't clear cut and people are on edge.
So, I'm not trying to get in a back and forth about it too much but I think Joe Brown does a good breakdown of this critique at the beginning of the video. He mentioned the 1919 race riots but on the same note I think about the deacons for defense in Louisiana where black veterans and community members decided to stop the attacks by the klan on their community, they decided they were going to patrol the streets armed to ward them off. I support that 100 percent and I want to make sure that black folks can benefit from that right in the future. No doubt the justice system is racist and unfair, but let's say this dude walks free, then you have a much stronger case if a state decides to charge black folks in the same situation to argue for their right to self defense.
Like Joe Brown said, when youre the target of a violent mob, even if they were all unarmed, just by their size its a life or death situation. If there was a black dude being chased by a bunch of white men even unarmed and he popped them I would be fully supportive of that. Doesn't matter if he drove up to "offer his services" in "protecting" a business or said something. Once these dudes decide to chase him down and one of them pulled a gun on him, the dynamic changed in that moment.
