Follow Up

[Dave's Not Here Man]

wtop.com/loudoun-county/2023/09/jury-to-decide-fate-of-delivery-driver-who-shot-youtube-prankster-following-him/



I don't know how the jury was deadlocked with the self defense question. The shooter was the victim and that's a fact (he did absolutely nothing to provoke the encounter with the stunt man) but in this country we really like to blur the lines between victim and aggressor. How many times have we heard "They ain't have to kill him" after that good boy who ain't do nuffin wrong in the commission of multiple felonies, the grand majority of which involve grave danger to life and limb of the public? It's time to sunset that crap and put all of these people on notice. I still hope the guy in NY is acquitted in choking out the maniac on the subway. I also think that debate is what drove Bob off here but fuck me for having my opinion and stating it with conviction, right?


PS- For 36k a year seems like pittance for risking his life for views.

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“They were playing a silly phrase on a phone,” she said. “How could the defendant have found that he was reasonably in fear of imminent bodily harm?”

Uh, no. They were inches from his face, playing a bizzare video over and over. Guy tried to back away, and told them to stop THREE separate times, and their response was not only to stay, but to lean in closer and start following him.

I'd 100% have been terrified that something bad was about to happen, and that this dude WAS capable of causing me bodily harm. Guy is damn lucky he wasn't killed.
And you underestimate the high these 'influencers' get from the publicity of having people watch their videos - it's rather disturbing. If you or I said that we loved doing crack cause of the high, we'd be hauled off to jail or rehab. These guys do it, and it's 'harmless fun'. Until it's not.

[Dave's Not Here Man]

And yet he's still in jail! I must've missed where the guy that was already known to LE was charged with anything.

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Not positive about this, but I think the charge would have been harassment (since he didn't actually touch the guy - he does understand where the law starts getting real for him), so the shooter would have had to press charges.

Although, if that dude had been pulling that shit with an elected official or off-duty cop, you know his ass would have been in the cooler.