Comment on A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it.
It was self defense though.
You don’t get to claim self-defense in an altercation you started and escalated. Or I guess you can try, but you’re gonna have a bad time
Actually, I think you do. It doesn’t matter who started it, if you’re afraid for your life, I think you have the right to defend your life.
If you escalate it, you will eventually get into a point where you fear for your life, so then literally every conflict you can then claim self defense.
I think that’s what cops do.
Revan343@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
You don’t get to claim self-defense in an altercation you started and escalated. Or I guess you can try, but you’re gonna have a bad time
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Actually, I think you do. It doesn’t matter who started it, if you’re afraid for your life, I think you have the right to defend your life.
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
If you escalate it, you will eventually get into a point where you fear for your life, so then literally every conflict you can then claim self defense.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I think that’s what cops do.