Re:Facebook reverses Kyle Rittenhouse policy
by xyzzyz on Thursday December 02, 2021 @10:04PM
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That’s a cool story, but it’s not how law works, so I do not recommend testing this theory.
Re:Facebook reverses Kyle Rittenhouse policy
by vkou on Friday December 03, 2021 @12:21AM
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Which legal theory? The 'wait around to get shot, because it takes three days of deliberation for 12 people to determine whether or not the person running around shooting people in a riot can be defined as an active shooter' theory?
Not waiting around for that determination seems to have worked out pretty well for Rittenhouse. He's both not dead, and a free man.
Which any reasonable person in that situation would have believed, with the information available to them at the time.
Had Rittenhouse dropped his gun, he would not have been an imminent threat to the crowd. But he did not. For all anybody on the scene knew, he would start shooting again, as soon as he had a chance to.
Disarming him was one way to remove that imminent threat of death and great bodily harm, which Huber tried to do. Killing him would have been another, which Grosskreutz considered, but did not try to do.