from his police email it is, if he had just used a personal email none of us would even know about it or if we did it would have just been some doxing bullshit which I would not agree with. This shit it getting to the level of taking nude selfies or recording yourself having sex, I can understand the first few people that got burned and have sympathy for them, but after the first couple, people should be smart enough to learn from precedence.
I don't believe in firing someone simply because they are a klansman, on their own time.
The thing is, this situation is in my belief similar to a stand your ground situation. If you inject yourself into a situation where you create the danger, you don't get carte blanch freedom to kill people. Again, this kid had a weapon he was not legally allowed to possess without adult supervision, traveled across state lines, established himself as "armed security" for property he had no ties to or employment, walked off to an area where someone was lighting a dumpster on fire away from the place he was supposedly guarding when the turn of events happened. Again, if it weren't for the fact he made a series of horrible choices, he wouldn't have been in that position. Another thing I have a problem with is the kid shot the people then walked by the police with his hands up. If he truly were trying to act as a surrogate to law enforcement he should have flagged down one of the cop cars and told them "I had to fire on individuals that were charging me, we need medical services here immediately" but instead he just walks by with his hands up. This kid jumped into a situation where he quickly got in way above his head, now I'm not saying he's a horrible person, in fact I feel sorry for the kid, from what I've seen he has some issues and his affinity for law enforcement was a coping mechanism.
I don't agree that it would have been a fireable offense if he used a personal email. Hacking and doxing are a part of modern life, you better be prepared to answer for your "anonymous online actions". The Chinese developed the J20 fighter after hacking details about the F 35 and F 22, that's shitty and they shouldn't be allowed to use that information, but guess what, they did. So personal information is going to get out there. People bitch about the actions of the press, and reminisce about the "good old days of journalistic integrity, completely forgetting between Hearst and Pullitzer (yeah the Pullitzer prize guy) the US was duped into a war with Spain among other things, the press has always had a shady side, now it is more obvious because of competition which in some ways is good and others bad. The good is they can and are quick to call bullshit from one of their peers/competitors to bad, they are all in a rush to get the scoop and it was bad enough when you had to compete with ABC, the AP, NBC, NYT, WSJ, WAPO, etc. Now you have to complete with every person with a podcast, blog website. Just look how quick news is posted on here and dissected, most times before all the facts are in. In other words, the member berries are kicking in for too many people.
You tell your friend to hire an armed security service to stand outside, someone that is licensed and insured. Or you tell your friend you will, but you will be inside the property as a "guest". If you go out there armed and get into an armed confrontation you run numerous risks, number one you are acting as an unlicensed uninsured armed guard, since in your case your friend asked you to be there, he would also assume liability for anything you do. Let's say mr skinhead does have Usain Bolt speed and catches you, you turn and fire, let's say an 5.56 or 7.62 caliber weapon and he hit the skinheads kid who happens to be standing back watching daddy, is that a "ooops, soowwwyyy!" I don't think so, I'm sorry but while I support the 2nd amendment and am a gun owner myself, I don't think private citizens should be going around as armed supplements to the police. If an armed security guard has to go through a licensing class and be insured, then so should someone protecting some random persons property. If it's your own house, hell shoot them once for me if they come breaking in, but you standing in front of the local hardware store or whatever, nope I can't support that. Too many things can go wrong.
Someone's political views could be considered a partial or biased view. "unpopular political views" are subjective, 150 years ago believing slavery should be abolished was an unpopular political view, don't believe it was political, look at the all the shit that went on during the election of Lincoln and the secession of the southern states. What is popular today will not be tomorrow, so that fluid metric is horrible for determining what should or shouldn't be acceptable.
For the reasons you stated, it will be a very interesting trial. This is not a surefire conviction like Chauvin. A key point will be he was committing an illegal act when people died. If he wasn't there, those people don't die. Period.
sorry but dismissing all the things you just conceded as fact is tantamount to saying it's acceptable for someone to say "well so what if I ran into the hood yelling the N word with a gun" and claimed that it was my self defense right to kill anyone that came to whip my ass, don't put yourself in that position in the first place. Or let's include a real world case, there was the guy in Clearwater Florida (so proud to be from Florida where all the fucked up shit happens) he was acting as the handicapped parking cop at a Walgreens, he got into a confrontation with a woman that was in the handicapped spot and got confrontational with her and her boyfriend saw it, he came out and the guy started with the boyfriend, the boyfriend shoved the guy and he fell down. The guy pulled out a gun and shot the boyfriend in the chest. The guy tried to pull a "stand your ground" defense. The guy was found guilty because he created the situation. Again, the way the law works is, you can't go out and start trouble and play the victim. The situation with the girl that got shot by the cop four times and died, apparently she called the police that she was being harassed and threatened, they show up. Unfortunately for her, they show up just as she's about the shank another girl, sorry she died but as of the facts at this point, I'd call it a justified shooting. For all I know the girl that was about the get stabbed was the instigator, she may have been the aggressor but that didn't give that girl the right to out with a knife and take the people on, especially as a cop is pulling up gun drawn.
