I hear what you're saying....it's hard to find just the entire video of the incident w/o commentary from the News Media. YouTube is SHADOW BANNING and censoring a lot, these days. Mainstream News Media will get the top spots whenever you do a search causing the need to weed through pages, even 10+; and even then, you may not get the raw version that's unbiased. Here's the best I've found so far:
Here are my opinions:
1) Speech, does not physically hurt nor kill anyone. The only speech that's illegal are threats of violence and inciting violence.
2) Grandpa, may be an ***hole, but this lady was definitely one for parking in a handicap space while there were plenty of other spaces available.
3) Grandpa kept a reasonable distance from the car. The woman got out of the car to get in his face. She clearly felt no danger nor fear and clearly wanted to escalate by getting out of her car. The Husband was already approaching from the side, unbeknown to Grandpa.
4) That wasn't protecting his woman, that was a clear attack on Grandpa to end the argument through violence. A surprise attack on a Grandpa by a much bigger, stronger, younger man....can seriously injure or even kill someone if their head cracks open from hitting the cement.
5) Grandpa was in fear for his life....because it was a sudden, suckerpunch type situation. Then the big guy was towering over him, moved forward, reaching into his pockets and pulling up his pants....he could've been reaching for a weapon....AND....the act of pulling up one's pants is a common mental tick, often done when someone's about to fight....because the pants/shorts causes a restrictive feeling. I often do this during sparring or fights. Muay Thai fighters generally do this a lot.
6) The Husband was in range to soccer kick Grandpa's head. 1 kick like this can easily kill a grandpa. Headstomps that may follow, certainly will.
7) Grandpa shot in fear....why? Because he only shot once. Most people who train, hell...just read crap on the internet.....will know to always shoot at least TWICE, center mass, to stop a threat. Even cops would often unload all 17-19 rounds at that range and predicament. Grandpa was very hesitant but obviously in fear. If he was out to execute a Black man that day, he would've at least shot TWICE. He made a split second decision.
8) It's easy to watch the video and see that the Husband backed up when he saw Grandpa reaching for something....and say that the threat was over. But this was about 1 freakin' second, then the single shot was fired. We're all armchair quarterbacking and Grandpa was certainly not a fighter or anything, so he prob. ain't used to physical violence on his old ***. Grandpa could've been the biggest wimp ever, but with a gun. This is one of the main reasons for the Stand Your Ground provision....so that the weak, the elderly, etc. don't need to live in fear.
