Prosecutor: Did Ahmaud Arbery reach into his pockets?
Prosecutor: Threaten you?
Prosecutor: Brandish weapons?
Imagine that. Ahmaud Arbery was being chased by ARMED rednecks with a confederate flag on their truck, who were calling him nigger, and we’re supposed to believe that they shot him because they were afraid for their safety??
This thing where visibly armed white men get to create a dangerous environment, and be the provocateurs in a situation of their own making, and then they still get to claim that they “feared for their safety”? Or they murdered someone because their racist imaginations saw “suspicious” activity where there was none?? ….. that shit has got to stop. You don’t get to create a danger and then claim “self-defense” when someone doesn’t instantly submit to racist demands.
And while I’m at it, the cop who shot Jacob Blake? Rusten Sheskey? He shot Blake in the back. When I was a kid, that’s what cowards always did in the movies. Only cowards shoot unarmed people. Only cowards shoot people in the back. It takes no bravery to gun down an unarmed person. There’s no honor in being a coward who murdered an unarmed person that was never a threat. I wish gun nuts could be honest and acknowledge that shooting an innocent person or carrying a gun doesn’t make you “brave” or “honorable.” It makes you a fucking coward.