Wyoming’s “Stand Your Ground” law says you don’t have to run from a confrontation before defending yourself. That is what Rihanna Kelver and her counsel are asking a Laramie judge to consider as they seek protection from prosecution in a felony case stemming from a confrontation outside the Crowbar.
Zimmerman stalked a kid before murdering him, after being told not to by authorities. Rittenhouse went looking for murder victims. Walking towards someone can’t be worse than that.
Rittenhouse was being confronted by people who just saw him murder someone and tried to stop him so he murdered more people and then ran home, past police, to a different state and he was found ‘innocent.’
Bear in mind he was really only “innocent” because he was 17. Generally you must legally be allowed to possess a gun in order to claim self defense. No matter how cut and dry a self defense claim is, if you are illegally carrying, it’s usually moot. Had he been 16, his possession would have been criminalized under one law, which would have killed his self defense claim. Had he been 18, there was a different law that would have made it illegal for him to carry. But Wisconsin fucked that up by leaving 17 for some un-fucking-explicable reason not defined.
Amazingly, being 17 also somehow made straw purchases not illegal.
Yeah but walking towards someone while trans? In Wyoming. The state where they killed Matt Sheppard.
Ahh yeah that’s right, trans panic is still a legal defense for murdering them
In the America’s Suicide Belt, pretty much
It’s not worse than that. She’s not being charged with a hate crime, civil rights violations, or homicide.
She’s being charged with brandishing, and her choice of actions don’t help her legal defense. Approaching a potential threat and then acting on it isn’t standing your ground.
Note that I’m not saying she should be charged for it, but she didn’t help her situation at all.