CAUGHT ON TAPE: Justified Self Defense, Or A Cold-Blooded Murder?

By Bob Owens

A Bearing Arms reader sent us a link to this security camera video, and asked us whether we thought this was a justified self-defense shooting.

In the black & white footage, a light-colored Chevy sedan pulls into a parking space, closely followed by a dark-colored sedan. After both vehicles stop, the driver of the dark-colored vehicle opens his trunk and retrieves an object that appears to be a piece of wood or some sort of pipe.

He then advances upon the driver of the light-colored vehicle as he emerges from his car, and swings the improved club at the door of the car.

The driver of the light-colored vehicle ducked back into the car.

The driver of the light-colored car drops back into his driver’s seat and reaches to his right as the man with the club hits the car several more times.

The man with the club strikes the windshield as another man in a light-color tee shirt rushes in from off camera in an apparent bid to diffuse the situation. Before he can, however, “Mr. Club” pulls the door of the car open and appears to …Read the Rest

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