When you’re being assaulted and have no way of knowing whether they’re going to kill you for being trans (something you know happens with alarming frequency), why would you show remorse for defending yourself against a violent, “pure evil” bigot?
Try reading a better article about the fight. The murderer cut everyone in line. The mailman called her a name for gay men I have been called thousands of times over fifty years. She spat on his face (note this is assault in NY so this is the instigation of the fight). The mailman strikes her several times while bystanders attenpt to break up the fight. The murderer then grabs a knife and stabs the mailman killing him.
Things to keep in mind-
The murderer has a history of violent knife crimes.
The murderer is a physically larger person than the mailman and height and reach are two of the three factors we track in boxing and other fighting sports so thete is less of a belief that their life would be in danger.
Finally and this is the most important part _There is absolutely no self defense claim permitted in court where an armed person kills an unarmed person especially with a knife. _
Mustakrakish@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I doubt they framed the dude who chocked the homeless man to death on the subway as a “disgusting human being”
musubibreakfast@lemm.ee 6 days ago
Upstanding heterosexual cisgendered male citizen forced to take homeless bum’s life in deadly subway altercation.
RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
That’s a direct quote from the murder victim’s family. The murderer has zero remorse for their victim or for their crime.
justastranger@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
When you’re being assaulted and have no way of knowing whether they’re going to kill you for being trans (something you know happens with alarming frequency), why would you show remorse for defending yourself against a violent, “pure evil” bigot?
RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Try reading a better article about the fight. The murderer cut everyone in line. The mailman called her a name for gay men I have been called thousands of times over fifty years. She spat on his face (note this is assault in NY so this is the instigation of the fight). The mailman strikes her several times while bystanders attenpt to break up the fight. The murderer then grabs a knife and stabs the mailman killing him.
Things to keep in mind-
The murderer has a history of violent knife crimes.
The murderer is a physically larger person than the mailman and height and reach are two of the three factors we track in boxing and other fighting sports so thete is less of a belief that their life would be in danger.
Finally and this is the most important part _There is absolutely no self defense claim permitted in court where an armed person kills an unarmed person especially with a knife. _