excessive force. correct. this stems back to the may 2020 people call them protests, i call them riots. where rocks, bottles, frozen water bottles, bottles bodily fluid. and things of that nature are thrown at the austin police department. and they responded with less lethal munitions which is the beanbag rounds. and my understanding is those rounds were either defective or didn t perform the way they were supposed. to say and there were people injured. these officers went out and did their job the way they were told to do it within policy. chief came out and said that he does not see anything criminal in what they did. and he is the chief of police. so you have to kind of take his word for it. will: right. and it was. it was these officers were being assaulted by rioters and they responded with force that was reasonable. will: so i m curious and, of course, what we are talking about now is the d.a. pursuing criminal charges for these officers as you pointed out there.
now, take a breath, and we re going to transition into self-defense and citizens arrest. how s my time? a person is justified in threatening or using force another against person when and to the extent that he reasonably believes that such force is necessary to defend himself or a third person against the other s imminent use of unlawful force. wow. that s a mouthful, right? let s break it down. travis mcmichael had to reasonably believe that it feels absolutely necessary to defend himself, and of course he threw in his dad, which he never mentioned before at any point in time, but threw him in against the other imminent use of unlawful force. that mean mrs. arbery had to be
at the sides, never pulled out a weapon, never threatened anybody. this is completely excessive force. even if you think, ladies and gentlemen, if you go, hey, it was citizens arrest, hey, he was rally defending himself, you then still have to go, this wasn t excessive force in order to find them not guilty. all right? what you didn t hear from the defense in their opening statement are the three instances when a person can t claim self-defense under the law in georgia. can t be the initial unjustified aggressor. this is important. you can t start this with your driveway decision unjustified because you didn t see a crime committed that day and then claim oh, i acted in self-defense. what s the justification? what are you going to hear? we wanted ahmaud arbery to stop and talk to us but he wouldn t,
never pulled out a weapon. never threatened anybody. this is completely excessive force, even if you think, even if you go, hey, it was citizen s arrest. hey, he was really defending himself, you then still have to go, this wasn t excessive force, in order to find him not guilty. all right? what you didn t hear from the defense in their opening statement are the three instances when a person can t claim self-defense under the law in georgia. can t be the initial unjustified aggressor. this is important. you can t start it with your driveway decision, unjustified, because you didn t see a crime committed that day, and then claim, oh, i acted in self-defense. what s their justification? what are you going to hear? we wanted ahmaud arbery to stop and talk to us, and he wouldn t, so we tried to force him to