Sharkey wrote:
OleCowboy wrote: You are confusing Assault, Aggravated Assault with Battery, Aggravated Battery. When they commit Battery your have the right to defend yourself, at that point in time they have had physical contact with you and a fist to the face is your shot to call on how you chose to defend yourself. When struck they have committed aggravated battery with intent to do serious harm or murder.
Assault does mean you were physically contacted, that is battery. This can be as simple as knocking your hat off (battery) or throwing a pillow at you (battery), a fist to the face is aggravated battery, different intent.
You may want to look at the Trayvon Martin case. Martin comitted Aggravated Battery, thus Zim felt his life was in danger, the court ruled in his favor...
I learned it in the Academy.
OK. Battery.
I was trying to keep it simple but let's go with this, you said "after you have been hit, that is attempted murder". Can you explain your legal precedence behind this one?
Let's also say that one of the kids playing the game kills someone and actually confesses. Since all of his friends have also come clean and confessed to playing "the knock-out game" in which the intent is to "knock someone out", what would he be charged with? Are you saying it would be murder 1?
Sure:
After some guy has busted me in the face with all he had and I sag to my knees and he is standing over me I am going for my gun, simple as that. It is ME that makes the call, just like Zimmerman did, I am by myself, just coming from a ATM with $500 in my hand. YOU make the call, simple as that, I am down, he is on his feet and I have no idea of his INTENT I will assume WORST CASE. Same if someone breaks into my home, I am not some LibTard, thinking he only needs a few dollars which I will give him for his drug habit the poor homeless soul in need of a meal, not gonna offer him a sandwich and a beer.
Far as I am concerned: He is there to Rob, Rape, Murder me and or my family, if you think anything else you wil be a victim and I will not be a victim.
Lets get one thing clear. This is NO GAME!!!!!!!! Its not Monopoly, Scrabble, Tag your it, the media can call it a game all they want, however at least 2 people have died from this already.
Since 2 folks have died already and I am sure over the past 100 years or so a lot of folks who murdered someone said: 'well I did not mean to kill him', yea, well, book'um Dano, murder 1...
I cannot tell you what some cop or DA is gonna charge someone with before it happens...
2 dead:
Knockout King: Kids call it a game. Academics call it a bogus trend. Cops call it murder.
A A AComments (54) By John H. Tucker Thursday, Jun 9 2011
The National Association of Black Journalists named John Tucker’s “Knockout King: Kids Call It a Game. Academics Call It a Bogus Trend. Cops Call it Murder”.
"We don't know why we did it," he goes on. "There's no reason to do it. We never thought about how [victims] feel. After a while I felt guilty, like, 'Dang!' I couldn't sleep."
Sixteen-year-old Anthony Johnson can relate. "I used to play, but now that I think about it, I put myself in a person's shoes and ask myself, 'What if that was me that was getting knocked out?'"
Others remain unrepentant. Now seventeen, Dominique Hudson looks back on Knockout King with fondness. "When you knock 'em out you gotta tell 'em to get a pillow and a blanket, 'cause you just put 'em asleep," Hudson boasts. Cops would chase him, he says, but they never caught him: "I don't stick around for long."
In the months that preceded the attack on the Nguyens, Elex Murphy (at Valley Springs Youth Ranch) had reinvented himself with falsehoods, telling acquaintances that his mother was dead, that he was from Atlanta and that he attended Washington University.
In the months that preceded the attack on the Nguyens, Elex Murphy (at Valley Springs Youth Ranch) had reinvented himself with falsehoods, telling acquaintances that his mother was dead, that he was from Atlanta and that he attended Washington University.
www.riverfronttimes.com/2011-06-09/news/...-dutchtown-murder/3/
