Or due to the video of the store.
He smoked weed.
he drank beer.
This is the new way of defending the accused, you (general you) start trashing the victim. Most trials are geared this way lately..
No, this seems to be something NEW that is going to be revealed. The crowd at the rally already knew all about the robbery and they knew about the beer/wed, because of the 'memorial' in the street, where his friends left bottles of MD2020 and cough syrup with the flowers.
It is not about 'trashing' the victim. It's about telling the TRUE story of what happened. You have a situation where you have to weigh one persons word against the others. On one hand, you have a 28 yr old officer, with no prior malicious incidents, recently decorated with a medal for valor, pulling over to tell two teens to get out of the middle of the street.
Telling a different version is MB and DJ. And it is totally relevant to know what they had been up to in the ten minutes preceding the shooting. Originally we heard that MB was a gentle ,quiet, soon to be college student, walking to visit grandma. But the video released shows that there was something else going on that brings that narrative into question. That video shows an aggressive, scary bully, stealing and showing no hesitation to get in the clerks face, grabbing his neck, shoving the much smaller, older man into the wall. How is that NOT relevant to the question of what happened 10 minutes later?
Especially if the officer is saying that this same teen was physically aggressive, combatant and assaulted him first. Without seeing the video, it might have seemed doubtful. But once you see how he acted in the store during the robbery, it makes perfect sense. He was in an aggressive mode that continued as he walked down the middle of the street. jmo :moo: