Legal Expert: Of Course The Keith Lamont Scott Shooting Was Justified.

By Andrew Branca

Bob Owens of Bearing Arms asked me to comment on a news piece by one Michael Edison Hayden on the subject of the police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte NC a few days ago: “Presence of a Gun Alone Was Not Enough to Disarm Keith Lamont Scott, Legal Experts Say.”

The theme of the piece bears the usual hallmarks of anti-gun propaganda: Step one, create a straw man argument as if it had been presented by the police as justification for shooting Scott—in this case that a black man can be lawfully shot by police if he merely has a gun present.

Step two, quote purported legal authority to destroy the straw man argument.

Step three, with the straw man destroyed conclude that the police acted wrongly in their shooting of the black man—coincidentally (?) promoting the false Black Lives Matter political narrative that there is an epidemic of police gunning down black suspects for no reason other than institutional racism.

Hayden managed to find a couple of law professors whom he uses to both frame and destroy his straw man argument, thus executing steps one and two. Step three is necessarily implied.

The two law professors cited by Hayden are E. …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms