So I provide one dissenting opinion and thats all it takes. Banned for life. I guess Slap is no place for civil discourse.
To everyone calling this guy a hero, please remember that "hero" is subjective. Kyle thought he was doing a heroic act by cleaning graffiti attempting to protect the neighborhood from unruly mobs looking to destroy the livelihoods of innocent business owners. The Car Source he was guarding was across the street from another car lot that had been gutted and burned down the previous night. Those people were innocent. What did they do to deserve that.
The first man he shot (Joseph Rosenbaum)can be seen ON VIDEO chasing him and trying to engage him. A reporter nearby said Kyle only shot when the man tried to grab his AR. Only then did he defend himself. He even stayed with the body to telephone for help. Thats when the rest of the mob turned on him. In the video he is actively fleeing the mob, running in the direction of the police. He could have easily just sprayed them all. Instead he only shoots people that were immediately attacking him. He even tried to spare the last dude after he sees him put his hands up, but when the guy lunges at him with the gun, he shoots his trigger hand.
Its sad what happened to the skater, but this dude let Mob mentality take over. Swinging a skateboard at a scared, armed teenager, who is running from a mob just shows a failure to apply basic common sense and judgement.
To the user: Chilllyboy. As someone who doesn't live in the States, I find post like these absolutely insane and disgusting.
No sane person goes anywhere "to defend property" they have no connection to, especially not with a fucking semi-automatic rifle. And you can't compare value of a property to a human life. That he was there to "clean graffitti" or whatever bullshit, is just a way to shift blame from white supremacy and make people symphatise with the murderer. He went there to kill people, people he was brainwashed to think were his "enemies". He murdered someone in cold-blood, there's no case for self-defense as he had absolutely no reason to be there. Then when he tried to escape, he shot people who tried to stop him, with zero thought in pulling the trigger. This is also completely insane. And the fact that he was only 17, I just wonder what went wrong in his upbringing. And the cops who let him walk away free after killing two and injuring so many, it's just bonkers.
And to the people who defend this white supremacist piece of shit, you know if he wasn't white, there would be a fucking national emergency declaring him a terrorist . But no, there's assholes like you trying to find reasons why it was OK for him to kill other human beings, because he is white like you.
To conclude: America is a pretty fucked up place, destroy white supremacy, all cops are bastards (every single one of them), get help.
And most importantly, fuck you chilllyboy and all the other racist, white supremacist pieces of shit who post here. Stay the fuck away from skateboarding.