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is taken by an idiot YouTuber who runs
pranks on people for a living and I
disdain that so much I am not going to
put any links to that YouTuber or his
channel here however uh he has chosen to
do this now and do a stupid prank where
he's like run a phrase through a Google
translator and now he is going to stick
that phone in someone's face to see if
he can get a rise or a reaction out of
them and he's going to choose an A A you
know like a food delivery driver to do
that to things escalate quickly let's
watch
it what qu my twink what's that hey qu
thinking about my twinkle no quit
thinking about my down my face off
stop thinking about my
stop shot broke that shot did hit the
YouTuber in the lower left chest and he
did live through that our delivery
driver was charged with aggravated
malicious wounding as well as two
Firearms related charges he was
acquitted of the aggravated malicious
wounding charge and convicted on the
other hand of shooting at an occupied
structure so he's currently in jail
waiting for a ruling from the judge
because his attorney said that that
conviction is not you know consistent
with the law when the firearm was used
in self-defense the jury did deliberate
for about 5 hours on that we're going to
talk about the appropriateness of those
verdicts in the lessons now you heard
that the jury found that guy who took
the shot not guilty of aggravated
assault here or their version of that
what do you think do you agree with that
verdict let me know in the comments this
whole prank thing is just crazy out of
hand and stupid and ridiculous can't
tell you enough be a good sane sober
moral prudent person don't go scaring
people putting them at fear especially
you know this guy's a big dude right
like he's not a small guy and he's got
his hat on backwards and you know looks
like a goofball and those things and so
you know again uh couldn't happen to a
nicer person doesn't mean it it was
justified and what was done to him
though so let's talk about this from a
defensive perspective you're the the
food delivery driver you've got a gun on
your person we're going to talk about
that from this way cuz this dude comes
up to you who you don't know and he is
sticking you know a phone in your face
and getting in your space is that weird
yeah absolutely that's weird uh and and
again he's just looking over at him like
dude what are you doing get out of my
space I totally get how that would put
somebody at fear that somebody was
encroaching on their space he's come all
the way through you know public space
into social space and now into personal
space
and now what do you do with that well
okay fine you got to do something and
what you do here is exactly what he did
at first leave me alone get away from me
put up a defensive fence we see that
with our hands out in front of us and
away from us a little bit hey dude leave
me alone and get away from me and he
wasn't giving the guy any kind of
significant reaction I think that was
really good now our driver here then
then grabs a hold of his phone and kind
of smacks it out of the way I actually
don't have a problem with that either I
think he's using the reasonable Force he
already told him get away from me and
now the guy isn't he's still in his
space so he has the right to defend that
boundary with reasonable Force but again
this guy hasn't shown any indication
here of an a an intent to do great
bodily injury or even injure him in any
way he's annoying him and so we have to
recognize that use our words adults use
words or just turn around and leave and
get away from this guy or back away from
him or whatever if you feel like he
could attack you now dude is following
you at this point but he's showing you a
phone and this is why we say eyes hands
waste right so dude has a phone in his
hand doesn't have anything in his other
hand yes he's following that's bad
that's not a thing that we want to have
happen however the right answer here is
again to get away now now had he here
pulled an OC spray an OC that guy had
told him get away from me wouldn't get
away from me I was really scared that he
was going to assault me because of how
close he was I think it would have been
okay I doubt he would have ever been
charged which is a great reason to have
something as Chuck Haggard says between
a harsh word and a gun but instead here
he just decides oh okay I'm going to
pull a gun on this guy and I'm going to
shoot him now first of all I want you to
recognize he's is carrying a little tiny
gun inside a pocket and looks like he
doesn't have a full firing grip on it
this is not how I want you to carry a
firearm in any way this is not reliable
but secondarily and much more
importantly please articulate to me what
is the reasonable objective deadly
threat that he faces right now what risk
of death or great bodily injury does he
face right now I don't see it and so if
I had been hired on this case as an
expert witness on the strength of this
video it would be very hard to justify
the use of deadly force to stop this guy
now of course the the trials you know
the guy said he was really scared but
bare fear isn't enough either you've got
to have actual objective evidence for
that deadly threat that is in your
vicinity in order to shoot somebody and
in most cases even to show them a gun
and so I I I struggle with this now why
wasn't he convicted then I know some
people are going to say but Johnny
wasn't convicted aha well first of all
the process is the punishment I want you
to recognize he spent tens and tens of
thousands of dollars and he spent many
sleepless nights in jail and and now
he's got got to worry about being the
queen of cellblock C to all these other
dudes in the heiney pooke Hotel this is
not a victory number two recognize that
the attorney charged him with aggravated
malicious wounding and it so therefore
he required malice of forethought that
he had a malicious intent that he wanted
to hurt him that his intent was to to
make him suffer and the jury didn't buy
that they were deadlocked though for
quite some time until the end of the day
which does tend to happen with juries
they get to you know uh arguing through
day and then finally at the end of the
day somebody goes fine I don't care
whatever and then they convicted him of
shooting into an occupied structure
which means to me probably the jury
negotiated those verdicts we got to
convict him of something because this
was wrong so we'll convict him of this
one which I think should be set aside
but recognize if the the prosecutor had
charged him correctly here if he had
charged him with aggravated assault I
think that without the the malice
portion of this I think he would have
been convicted and probably spent the
next five or more years behind bars
which he probably should I don't see a
any reason here to draw a firearm now do
I feel sorry for this YouTuber no I
don't quite frankly the guy's a [ __ ]
and so sometimes you you know again you
pay the band and you get to dance the
dance but I don't think it was justified
conduct in any way I don't want anybody
to use this as a aha I can shoot
somebody and get away with it because I
want you to recognize this guy's not
done fighting fights yet he's paying his
attorney hundreds and hundreds and
hundreds of dollars an hour and and and
rightly so right so so these are going
to add up to tens to to even over a
100,000 to go all the way through this
trial process plus if he's hiring
experts plus all the other things that
he has to do plus all the time he's
spending in a government funded gated
community which is not a vacation
friends so listen don't do this okay
let's do better as Firearms carriers to
have objective reasonable evidence and
only use our tool our Firearms a tool of
Last Resort to cover our asp