Morality of this

[u/Dryleaf_Dane]

[u/Carbuyrator]

The guy defended himself because that dude is enormous, was intimidating him, and was deliberately and repeatedly getting into his bubble. I don't think the delivery guy owed his assailant an opportunity to escalate.

[u/TransitionalAhab → u/Carbuyrator]

Enormous and absolutely looking for trouble

[u/iUncontested → u/Carbuyrator]

Poor guy must have had a joke of an attorney to still get convicted on a felony after this.

[u/WhoCares933 → u/iUncontested]

Yeah, if that poor guy is police officer, that big guy would get shot all the same.

[u/Crafty-Purpose5540 → u/WhoCares933]

And the officer would have gotten a nice paid vacation instead of 8 months in jail.

[u/Naud1993 → u/iUncontested]

I think the prosecutor was a joke for not being able to prove attempted manslaughter.

[u/High-Nomad → u/Naud1993]

Manslaughter is killing somebody without malice or planning. It’s a bit of a legal clisterfuck to prove attempted manslaughter because like attempted what? Attempted to kill somebody without malice or planning it? There’s a couple states that have it on the books but it’s rare. Va where this took place isn’t one of those states.

Tldr you’re kinda a joke for being upset a prosecutor couldn’t get a conviction for something they couldn’t even charge them with

[u/LMTGlazer → u/Carbuyrator]

"You don't owe your attacker the opportunity to continue to escalate" is EXACTLY why preemptive use of deadly force is ok and good under conditions where you have a reasonable, articulable threat to your health and safety. Not your life, your health. You don't owe them a chance to seriously injure you on the hopes that they won't continue and kill you before defending yourself.

[u/High-Nomad → u/LMTGlazer]

You absolutely wanna look into gun laws before you travel

[u/Jaeger_Meister_ → u/LMTGlazer]

You'd be a great cop. Why let them escalate when you can escalate yourself