Note that I'm not necessarily opposed to her facing consequences for killing him -- my issue is with how gleefully NYPost is framing it as if she just attacked him out of the blue and shoehorning her into the "evil transgenders" stereotype
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this post is complete dogshit. "self defense" my ass
There is almost no self defense claim to be made in a stabbing in NY. If you have a knife and the other person is unarmed, as was the case here, your life isn’t the one at risk.
You can absolutely get murdered by an unarmed person
You cannot legally argue you were acting in self defense when you stab an unarmed person. The courts won’t even let you start that argument. There is nothing that would indicate their life was specifically at risk in that moment.
That's complete bullshit.
How many manslaughter cases have there been where 2 people get in a fist fight and one of them gets brained on the concrete?
To be clear, the claim that it's legally indefensible may be true, but your life is absolutely in danger in an unarmed fight
So if an MMA fighter starts kicking your ass, you aren't allowed to use a weapon to defend yourself because they are unarmed?
Why are you avoiding the trans woman's preferred pronouns?
Try thinking of her as a woman and see if that helps understand why a man hitting her three times is deadly.
After getting hit 3 times?
Yes, as the armed person you do not have any claim of self defense against an unarmed person.
She was s struck after she spit on the guy which is also assault.
She is lucky she is not in a state with the death penalty
The person doesn't have to have a weapon to be a threat to your lif. Based on your logic someone could say I'm going to beat you to death and go about doing it and 10 minutes later with 17 broken bones you'd have no case for self defense that doesn't track at all.
I think you misunderstand