The prosecutor put a retired FBI agent on the stand who testified kelly had a right to use deadly force against the officers..... Sounds pretty involved to me....
Good point. I had forgotten, I heard the same thing, the only difference being the retired FBI aspect of the witness.
Still, I can't help but wonder. I saw the videos--more than one witness recorded on his phone. How can people not see that as murder, especially if a litigator does a good job of explaining the evidence? At the moment, I just don't understand it; and, I'm not willing to dismiss it so quickly by blaming the jury.
Don't forget, I well recall the democide* of the native American woodcarver in Washington state. The one where the coroner's inquest neatly avoided any discussion about whether the officer had RAS to seize the homeless man in the first place. Without that RAS to make a seizure, everything else the officer did after that was out-of-bounds. Yet, the inquest never examined that point. Given that it was so obvious a point--a nobody, anonymous yapper on a gun forum (me) noticed it--how could the legal minds involved have failed to raise the point...unless they didn't want to. So, I'm viewing the Kelly Thomas killing--through a lens ground with the wood-carver case.
I guess I'll just have to wait until more information comes in.
*Democide: the extra-judicial killing of a person by his own government. As in, some estimates say that as many as seventy million people were killed extra-judicially by their governments during the 20th century: Stalin vs Ukranian peasants, Mao's Great Leap Forward, Khymer Rouge's Killing Fields, Turkey's genocide of Armenians...
