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srothstein wrote: ↑Fri May 08, 2020 11:50 am

oljames3 wrote: ↑Fri May 08, 2020 10:05 amNo, the "modern day lynch mob" is folks rushing to judgement without sufficient evidence. While I think the actions of the McMichael father and son were ill advised and dangerous, we must understand that GA law is different from Texas law. We must wait for the GA system to assign blame or we risk being the lynch mob.

And that is on not just this case, but a lot of cases in the media lately.

I’m sorry, where is the story of anyone chasing down and killing the McMichaels? They weren’t even arrested until yesterday...2 months later. How is demanding an arrest and investigation a lynch mob?

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The simple fact based on all the information released thus far is, 2 men decided to go after a person THEY SUSPECTED had committed a crime the night before. These two men decided they did not need to involve the police. They wanted to investigate and detain on their own. They chased down and approached an unarmed while one of them displayed a long gun. The video shows clearly enough the young man ran around the men and, when confronted, fought for his life and lost.
The father and sons actions caused the death of a young man who was not given the opportunity to be lawfully accused in a court of law. This is, by definition, vigilantism and a modern lynch mob.

philip964 wrote: ↑Thu May 07, 2020 10:00 am One is police report and an article in 2013 where the jogger is arrested for trying to bring a gun into a high school sporting event.

How would this incident have any bearing on what these two men did in this situation? Did they have knowledge of this at the time they decided to chase down this jogger? Even if he was peeking in a window during his run, why do they think it is okay to chase him down with their shotgun instead of call the authorities? I learned in my CHL class that my license does not give me authority to enforce the law. I agree that this was a modern day lynching. They saw what the believed was a criminal and chased him down, shot and killed him, as he tried to protect himself from two armed men.