Georgia Justice

The Ahmaud Aubrey verdict was correct where the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict was wrong. In Aubrey’s case, self defense was not a viable defense because the defendants created the danger and then claimed they were the victims defending themselves.

The same is also true for Rittenhouse. He traveled to a place where unrest and probable violence would occur. He came armed with an attack rifle. He was too young to own the rifle. He borrowed it and strutted around with it. He became the danger to others. He brought the instrument of violence. Others felt threatened by him and his being armed. When they attempted to disarm him, to neutralize the danger to others, he shot them; two dead, one injured.

Kyle was not the good guy. He was the bad guy looking for trouble. He found it.

Aubrey was out for a jog. A black man out for a jog. Local residents, unsettled by matters of race, pursued him. Aubrey did not know he was being pursued at first but then it became obvious. He continued on his jog at a faster pace to escape the verbal abuse. Then the attack. Then the scuffle. Then the murder. Three against one. Brazen enough to even film it on one of the three’s cell phone.

Danger was brought to the Aubrey scene because the three were looking to capture and make a citizen’s arrest. They were armed. Aubrey was not. Aubrey was doing what he had the right to do – exercise on a public street. The vigilantes had no right to do what they did.

The Aubrey case defendants were rightfully declared guilty of felonious murder. The same should have been the verdict in the Rittenhouse case. Both cases involved vigilantism. Both cases involved danger being introduced by the defendants.

Different verdict due to location? Wisconsin versus Georgia? One wouldn’t think so. But racist history of Georgia did not prevail in the Aubrey case. The conservative mindset of Wisconsin did prevail. And justice was denied.

What does this tell us? You make your own shuddering conclusion. I have mine.

November 29, 2021

 

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