EDITED: THANKS 4 LINK, GALLO! Here is a combined vid showing incident.
https://mobile.twitter.com/d2k/status/1278853736417431552
Sooooooo, apparently a white couple is being charged with assault after they pulled their guns on a black woman and her daughter. The link does not mention as such in the article, but it appears to have progressed.
So if I understand the situation correctly, the daughter decided to confront the white woman after the two bumped into each other, specifically to demand an apology. After one was not given, epithets of ‘ignorant’ and ‘racist’ were flung at the white woman and the mother and daughter followed the woman to her car. More words were exchanged, woman and husband attempt to leave, but the mother/daughter start hitting the car because they fear getting struck. Woman/husband then pull guns, and then news happens,
Now, those of y’all who have spoken with me on this website know I’m pretty hard on the liberal side of the spectrum. I am however quite specifically in favor of one’s right to defend themselves in the event that a threat of harm is felt.
In my opinion, this incident is one of those times. The Mother/Daughter are not entitled to an apology and should not have escalated the situation by demanding one and thereby provoking a confrontation. The fact that the mother/daughter refused to get out of the path of the car when the other party attempted to leave would be full justification for self-defense at that point.
I think the police charged the wrong party in this instance, but I wonder if the wife/husband party was targeted as some sort of effort to make the police seem ‘balanced’. This to me is anything but.
What of you though? Do you believe the charges were justified, or were the wife/husband unduly arrested?