Total clown shoes that the 17 year old kid was even there, of that I have no doubt. The saltiest BTDT real-deal special forces MOS with the DD214 to prove it would stay far, far away from that fustercluck unless it was his own house or maybe his own business and it didn't have a riot rider in his insurance.
And it's laughable that he thought he could be some sort of superman neutral middle ground libertarian, "support" BLM, scrub graffiti, be a "medic", and also guard against arson and looting. Considering how much anecdotal protester-on-protester violence there's been that's a fools errand if I've ever heard one.
And the group he was with was no better. No chain of command, no security element, no overwatch, no comms I could see, no attempt at some sort of recognition symbol, no minimum of two man patrols or battle-buddies to watch each other's backs. I'm sure someone who has had actual shoot and move or MOUT training on the .gov dime could write a novel on everything else missing. Plus the idea that you're entrusting your life to a group didn't stage beforehand wasn't of known members that vouched for each other to prevent infiltration by false-flag actors or God knows who is also mindbogglingly stupid.
Hence why a 17 year old kid from another state was with them.
What do you even do in that instance? Show up well enough before dark, and say: "So uh... are you one of the rifle guys who wants to prevent arson like me?" and then scrub graffiti to prove your bona fides?
That said, all three shoots look to have strong
prima-facie self defense elements to them. And from a pure gun fighting standpoint, looked to be exceptionally well conducted with a lot of restraint and trigger control. He incapacitated all three of his threats with just 1 or 2 shots. There's no mention of any shots going wild and into the air. Every one of them hit an attacker. And he did so while being grappled with, hit, and on the ground. I seriously have to wonder if Airsoft or Call of Duty played into it. Or maybe the kid just has "it". And would be a natural at three-gun, or an 11 series MOS. I can understand the argument he was just "lucky" but three times lucky in all aspects of a shooting assuming dropping the hammer was justified?
I can not confidently say that if I'd been going through what that kid went through... Ignoring that hopefully at minimum such trouble found me instead of willfully putting myself in the middle of it... that I wouldn't have gone all death blossom and sprayed the whole damn street until my mag was empty.
The usual social media scrub of the kid shows he may have wanted a career in law enforcement. That's over. If he prevails in his current legal troubles, I doubt any LEA will ever touch him with a ten foot pole, unless it's some sort of Joe Arpaio grandstanding Sheriff who picks him on purpose.
Since this isn't court, without rules of evidence, I can bring up anything else I please. Ignoring that the kid couldn't possibly know their priors anyway, the rap sheets of all three who were shot were enlightening for sure.
