I look forward to seeing more level headed discussion from the beacon of truth you must be to be so confident that you're correct yet so incapable of adequately describing why to a convincing degree.
Thanks for the input, but maybe you need to take a breather for a minute, try to understand the perspective of others, and then you can find better arguments to suit what you want to say? I assure you that accusing people of mental illness is not actually an argument in your favour or even against you, nor does mental illness actually prevent someone from having reasonable and subjectively correct opinions on various matters.
Do you think that such legal prose runs through the minds of people in the heat of the moment? You really expect people to look at things in such a clinical manner when they're under immediate perceived threat? You think too much of humans and too little of people.
This is definitionally an ad hominem argument; i.e. you're attacking people in place of actually attacking the argument.
But to refute your attacks on people's character, I'm just going to say, you're from lemmy.ca, so I imagine you're Canadian. sndmn is also lemmy.ca, so I imagine they're a Canadian. If you check @ram@lemmy.ca, the account I've been using until I signed up to my current instance, as well as the content I interact with, you'll see that I'm a Canadian.
As for the idea that maybe I'm some pro-gun PoS, I'm radically anti-gun. I think our gun laws in Canada are much too lax. The fact that pigs walk around with guns means that criminals are more likely to carry guns as well.
Not if I'm to emapthise with the person in the video, instead of making emotional judgements reliant solely on reading articles and a 3rd person video perspective, I can try to understand that people living in the US are painfully aware that those around them are constantly surrounded by guns. I can also try and understand that if you have an easy "fuck off" button that carries big consequences with it, you'll be quicker to jump to it the moment things get dicey.
I do think he was too quick to pull out the gun, but seeing as he's a human, I also understand people make hasty decisions that are suboptimal. So if I look at things outside a clinical perspective and consider how I'd react in such a situation, with at least two much larger men playing something weird in my ear, chasing me, and continuing to play it as I try to disengage - them refusing to allow me to disengage, I can very well see why someone who would go for the big fuck-off button.
Maybe I describe it in a clinical way - that's just what it's like to be neurodivergent for some people. But the reality is that my perspective is defined by my empathy for the person, despite not being someone who's had to suffer living in a gun-happy country, and despite being someone who, based on life experience, would likely die before pulling that big fuck off button on someone.
Try empathising with someone for a bit instead of jumping to "guns are the problem." The only problem with guns is that they were involved at all. Any situation with a gun is more deadly than without, but the reality of the dystopia that is the USA is that situations have guns.
In later interviews, this guy says he's gonna keep doing these "pranks". Getting shot won't even stop him, so there's no hope that it'd stop potential copycats.
The crime is proven. He admitted to shooting Cook. The crime occurred and that is accepted legal fact. The acquittal was a result of a plea of self-defence.
I beat Kingdom Hearts 2 last week, so I'm just starting Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days. Taking a bit of a break though, so might not end up getting to it until next week.
It was Google translate reading out “Hey dipshit, stop thinking about my twinkle" in English then again in Spanish. It's mostly harmless and just confusing, but Cook following after Colie's definitely what forced the situation to escalate, as he held the phone uncomfortably close to Colie's ear.
I think also a big part of why Colie was found not-guilty is that he disengaged, said 3 times "stop" including attempting to swipe away Cook, and only then did he take violent action to end the perceived threat. He fired a single round low into Cook, and then immediately retreated from the scene.
The argument at hand isn't whether or not he was acting in self defence, but whether he used proportional force to justify it as such, and the jury found that it was proportional, likely due to the factors you described.
Shooting to end the situation that has escalated to what appeared to be a dangerous degree.