stealthyeliminator
Regular Member
I neither agree, nor disagree with anyone's comments up to this point. Everyone has, and is entitled to, their own opinion. However, I have to ask myself, if the aggressive gentleman had NOT been a uniformed police officer, and simply been a larger, aggressive man, with an openly carried firearm, would any of your opinions change?
I think that my opinion has changed, after reading some of the comments here and thinking about it some more.
I still might think that I might be in the wrong to use lethal force in that situation because I personally probably wouldn't believe that the cop would actually try to break my face. I would likely think he's just blowing smoke and being a jerk. At the most, I'd imagine he might try to cite or arrest me, and in either of those cases I'd have a hard time defending any use of force, even if it was proven to be a false cite or arrest.
However, I can't say that a perfectly reasonable person wouldn't feel as though their life was legitimately in danger in that situation, and so if I were on a jury voting on a murder charge against the camera bearer and this video were the only evidence, I too would have to find not guilty.