Thread by @l78lancer

Remember this case? If not, you should. This case sums up everything that's wrong in this country about the treatment of black people in the "justice system," the systemic negligence, mistreatment, and revictimization of abused women, the fallacy of Stand Your Ground laws.

https://twitter.com/Johnson__joey/status/1462482472453779460

And before you start with bogus, nonsensical, the stand your ground laws and Castle Doctrine are two different things, don't even bother. The arbitrary, abusive, discriminatory outcomes are the same for victims no matter how you pretend they're different.

So, save your breath.

When outraged mobs whine for justice and mercy for men with guns and complain about unfair treatment - almost always white men, always with guns - the "justice system" ignores women in life-or-death situations who get no such consideration often from guess who? Men with guns.

Why?

If angry white men, with no basis and no real ground to stand, can claim the right to delf-defense despite carrying guns to the situation in the first place, and having initiated the problems themselves, surely women being abused have a right to self-defense, too.

When you pick a fight, get your ass kicked, or are in the process of getting it kicked, you don't get to claim that you are the victim and must stand your ground.

You had no ground in the first place, and the other person has every right to stand their ground, too.

Men who are aggressors who then cry victim when it goes wrong are BS. They must be held accountable for the situations they initiate and crimes they commit. Justice coming through in a horrible egregious situation is good, but that shouldn't be the exception, but the rule.

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