BULL. They have an agenda. The pic is part of the propaganda against guns, egging on racial strife etc. same reason they called Zimmerman a white Hispanic. Try, just try, to be intellectually honest.
Here's the way I see it. Would SYG apply here:conf2:
Im pretty sure settlement money is tax exempt. Especially in personal injury. Things like wrongful termination are taxable though.. i think. And if any part of the settlement is punitive damages.. that part is taxable.
You answered your own question. Asking someone a question, or hell, even cursing at them doesn't give that person the legal OR moral right to physically attack that person. On the other hand, physically assaulting someone most definitely gives the defender a moral right and in SYG, the legal right as well to defend themselves. A tragic end to TM's life and I am sure it is awful for his family, but there is no reason to punish GZ other than to try and pacify certain groups.
That is the biggest load of bull I have ever heard.
And this is where your life is forfeit if you initiate aggression against someone capable of ending you.
So you are saying that its ok for a non uniformed person in no real position of authority to stalk someone for several blocks and the person being followed/stalked/harassed has no recourse other than run or do what the person says?
I believe the actual quote was "we don't need you to do that." That is a far cry from "leave him be". In fact, it seems like the dispatcher was leaving that decision up to GZ, not telling him to desist.
And you'd be charged with a crime.
No, SYG only means you can meet force with force. I'm unaware of ANY self defense laws in any state that allow anyone to employ deadly force (or even threaten it) unless they are in imminent fear of great bodily harm or death. Some dude following you, even hurling insults at you, wouldn't constitute that threat in any state that I'm familiar with.
For defending myself from someone who had been following me, and accosted me in a dark area between two buildings without identifying himself? Sure arrest me but any lawyer worth his salt would get that thrown out.
And I will say that if someone follows me for multiple blocks and starts to come at me in a dark neighborhood I will tell everyone that I came across I felt my life was in imminent danger. There have been cases where people were shot under SYG without any physical altercation having taken place merely due to perceived threat. That is what makes these rules so bad.
No, the person being 'stalked' would need to contact authorities or leave the area - you have zero right to attack someone physically because they are following you are saying things to you. That's the law.
Good luck with that - I've never seen that work without a physical attack from the 'follower'.
The only situations I'm aware of where someone utilized deadly force when another weapon was not present and was not charged is in cases where someone has a physical reason to be fearful of a physical confrontation - someone outnumbered, someone much smaller / weaker than the other, or someone with a disability.
Usually such cases involve home invasion, where threat is implied just by someone's unauthorized presence.
