What is self-defense?

Wed., May 31, 2017

I, too, am concerned about the vigilante justice that we are supporting here in Spokane. When is it not okay to shoot someone in the back? What is self-defense? Somehow I thought it was imminent danger, but then a Spokane jury also found innocent a man who shot a drunk through a screen door. I still cannot understand why that man did not close the door and call the police.

Why didn’t Mr. Bushnell let Mr. Poindexter go and let the police deal with him? I will never understand how we value some lives so very little!

Martha Nerpel

Spokane

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