The two hicks had no right to even stop Arbery. Read the GA law and get back to us. It is not against the law to enter a construction site that is not secured or posted and just look around. No crime committed means Citizens arrest is not lawful.
You don't get much of an argument from me about the McMichaels' actions. However, consider this:
If I recall correctly, Mr. Arbery was seen RUNNING from the house under construction. To anyone witnessing the fact that someone RUNNING from the place under construction it could look like the person exiting the premise was doing it in a hurry for a nefarious reason.
For example, you are in an area and hear a woman screaming from a place that you cannot observe. You can hear her but you cannot see her. From the same location that you cannot observe, you see a person running past you very fast with a very worried look on his face.
Is the person running because he tried to attack the person you hear screaming
OR is he running to get help for someone who has been injured in an accident?
It's wrong to make assumptions but in the heat of the moment, the very best of us can fall prey to this human condition. Without judging the guilt or innocence of the McMichaels' we should possibly consider that the person making the call in the surveillance video may have thought that Mr. Arbery had been committing a crime.
Now put yourself in that situation and try to dispense with any criteria derived from hindsight. I can see there would be a possibility of someone assuming that Mr. Arbery was up to something criminal. Again, put yourself in that neighborhood - especially if there had been a history of break-ins and thefts.
It's easy for us to make judgments based on prima-facie evidence. It's easy for us to look at everything in hindsight in the comfort of our homes and not having been in the situation.
All I was wanting to convey with posting the video is that a couple of other people see the shooting video the way I do. That is that Mr. Arbery looks very much the attacker.
Whether the McMichaels were right or wrong with confronting the deceased is certainly debatable. My gut reaction is also that they were wrong. However, I don't think they set out with the intention of killing anyone.
Having been in a situation when someone put a gun on me, I chose to surrender rather than fight. Again, I did nothing wrong and the pistolero was an asshole. As much as I wanted to shove the 1911 up the idiot's ass, the desire to stay alive was stronger.
I also couldn't run as he was a few feet away. If he was 20-30 yards away; running may have been a better option. I say all this because I know what it is like for someone to point a gun at you. I've been in more fist fights than I care to remember. So I know what it feels like to be attacked or confronted without provocation.
So I think I can say with some authority that Mr. Arbery's actions were foolish based on the video that I am seeing. I will also be the first to admit that I may be falling prey to making a baseless assumption.
Some people seeing the video make the assumption that Mr. Arbery was defending himself. On the other hand, it could be that Mr. McMichael is defending himself from Mr. Arbery.
Some assumptions are being made with race factored in. We don't live in isolation. To ignore race as a factor is to pretend that it doesn't exist.
We don't know the perceptions of the McMichaels or Mr. Arbery. The deceased may have thought he was being attacked by some members of the Klan or the McMichaels may have thought "here comes another N----- to steal from us again."
We don't know if those perceptions are true. Nevertheless, like the example I cited with hearing a woman scream and seeing someone run away, there are two different ways that we can look at the video of the scuffle between Mr. Arbery and Mr. McMichael.
To repeat, the McMichaels may have been foolish or acting on incorrect information for basing their reactions. However, I contend that, even if Mr.Arbery was within his rights to use physical force against Mr. McMichael - he was foolish to do so.
The video that I posted shows that a few other people are coming up with an assessment different from the leftist, race-bating media.
The video below may be a feeble attempt at comparing apples to oranges but the similarity is that both are fruit.
