Scoring rundown:
Pro-firefighter:
- White.
- Seems to have been standing up for a woman (race unknown).
- Shooter is Black (female).
- Black male is felon and Prohibited Person.
Pro-shooter:
- Defense case upholding acting based on limited knowledge.
Kevin Jamison, an attorney and author of Missouri Weapons and Self-Defense Law, agrees that the woman’s actions against the firefighter were warranted. He told FOX4KC, “Technically it’s called the defense of justification and your justification is you are saving the life of another person.” He added, “The girlfriend is only constrained by what she reasonably believed to be the circumstances. If she didn’t see the start of the fight, all she knows is her boyfriend is getting strangled.”
CONCLUSION: Reluctantly, without further evidence, the case has to go to the shooter, as the precedent is useful in the long run. The more "defense" can be stretched, the easier combating the other side will be when the time comes. And the case is protected against race-baiting.
Most likely, though, the prosecutor caved on pushing the case due to the ever-present threat of BLM rioting.
QUESTION: The weapon seems too large to have been concealed, including an extended magazine. Yet story suggests its owner pulled it, as if concealed on his person. Hmm...
