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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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.