Jury acquits delivery driver of main charge in shooting of YouTube prankster

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Jury acquits delivery driver of main charge in shooting of YouTube prankster - Lemmy.world

A jury has found a delivery driver not guilty in the shooting of a YouTube prankster who was following him around a mall food court earlier this year

I know everyone loves when YouTube pranksters get what coming but shooting someone over mild annoyance is never a good thing. This is why america seems fucking nuts to anyone that doesn’t live there.
Somebody approaching you, even though you’re trying to move away and telling them to stop, is not a “mild annoyance”. It’s dangerous because weapons are so freely available. It would be better if they weren’t, but while they are, you shouldn’t do something like this.

It’s not enough to shoot someone in any civilised country.

It’s important to realize that the confrontation lasted 30 seconds. That’s the amount of time he waited before almost killing someone.

He wasn’t being chased in a dark alley and stalked for half a hour, someone played loud noises in his face and it took a total of 30 seconds for him to decide to shoot someone over it. Literally insane.

30 seconds is a long time for someone to be harassing you. I can see why it escalated.

But it still doesn’t justify deadly force. That’s a last resort.