particularly when a person brings the weapon to the fight, as it were? exactly. and, you know, the prosecutor sort of made that point in her closing, not necessarily in rebuttal, but she said, you know, they were the ones that brought the gun to the knife fight, so to speak. well, in this instance, they brought a gun to arbery s jog. so there is in the law, there s this idea of proportionality, and the prosecutor made that clear that when you have a self-defense claim, you can only use a proportionate amount of defense to make yourself sort of safe in that regard. so, what is a proportionate amount of defense when somebody is unarmed? she noted over and over again, you know, the bagginess of arbery s pants, that it was clear that he went armed, that in the defendant s post-arrest statements, they did not make it clear that they thought necessarily that he was armed.
0 there he goes. this is the white truck. he s still underneath here. here comes somebody to the truck. he s right there. here comes greg mcmichael-he comes around. he gets in. then mr. albenze starts walking down the street. truck pulls out. there goes his arm. there goes his arm. where is the truck? already pulled out. already pulled out and heading down the street. all right. should you trust the statements of travis mcmichael? well, let s go ahead and first take a look at this. he told you he s not going to chase or investigate someone who is armed, and yet all he talked about was, he kept reaching into his pants, kept reaching into his pocket. well, did you think he was armed or not? then what did he tell you? this is what i was thinking. mr. arbery may have run by. maybe matt had seen him. maybe he has broken in. maybe harry english is over at 220. i don t know. maybe ahmaud arbery was caught. maybe ahmaud arbery was trying to run from the police. these are all maybes. he doesn t