You’d have to be beyond stupid to not think this was a clear and cut fucking case. We can argue whether he should have been there with an AR as that likely wasn’t smart. However, it’s nothing against the law to be of age, on property you were invited to, with an AR. Period. End of story. If he had gone there looking for trouble as the prosecution would like you to believe then he could have just started open firing, yet he wasn’t. He was trying to put out fires, remove graffiti, help people and so on. And if he had been wanting to hurt people he wouldn’t have been retreating with his barrel down, towards police. Obviously the police didn’t see him as a threat even with his AR because if they had he would be dead. Once he was attacked by an angry mob multiple times who were also trying to take his weapon, he had every right to defend himself with anything he had on his body. Period. He didn’t know if they were going to kill him if they had got ahold of his gun, hell he didn’t know if they were going to kill him either way. So to anyone with a sliver of intelligence would say, he is in the right here. This jury must be fucking morons. I’d like to be able to ask them if they were in his shoes would they have acted any different? I’m betting none of them would say they are going to voluntarily be beaten to death. And here is the kicker. To be honest, whether he had an AR that night or not is irrelevant. Why? Because he was there and he was trying to help people, he was cleaning graffiti, he was putting out fires. It’s likely if they had seen that they would have gone after him anyways. Why? Because he is messing with their fun of burning the city down and sending the wrong message. I’d bet that he would have been attacked anyways. This is pretty much he put himself in the wrong place at the wrong time, it just so happened that he had his AR with him. But nobody in their right mind would think he went their looking for trouble. People also need to keep in mind that most people’s insurance does not cover civil unrest, acts of war and so on. I know mine doesn’t. So you damn right I’m going to protect my shit.