Exceeding a duty to retreat
Miguel posted this video:
This is what antifa do to people they encounter in the street. Watch them assault and hit a man walking away from the antifa riot in SE Portland. They bring bats precisely for this purpose. #PortlandRiots #antifa Video by @VenturaReport. pic.twitter.com/AfxmVHHk6K
— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) August 16, 2020
His focus was on the fat guy with the bat hitting the person.
Andy Ngo posted another video from Portland:
#Antifa are harassing and following a group of random men they accuse of being fascists and white supremacists. They were just standing there. The mob says them being there is “violence.” #PortlandRiots https://t.co/lAXRUVYHLD
— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) August 16, 2020
The common theme between these two videos is that in both cases the people targeted by Antifa were leaving the situation and were being followed and harassed and assaulted while they were leaving.
These people were retreating and Antifa kept persuing.
IANAL but to me, it seems that once you have started your retreat if your attackers continue to follow you and threaten you while you are retreating you have cleared every threshold to justify the use of lethal force.
“I was walking away. I was leaving the protest. The followed me and continued to hit me while chasing me.”
It’s not just chasing people. I’m going to post this video again:
After #antifa were dispersed by police following the attack on the East Precinct, they tried to blind a woman at her home with lasers and attacked her.
Antifa have gone into residential parts of the city after moving on from attacking federal courthouse. pic.twitter.com/mKcrgHixmC
— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) August 6, 2020
Antifa slammed the door on this woman as she tried to enter her own home, keeping her from retreating into her own house.
I have to agree with Miguel here, this is at the point where good people are going to start shooting Antifa.
Not just are they driving people out of public places, but they are chasing them while they retreat, following them home, and cornering them so they cannot escape.
I’ll also agree with Miguel on this point too, I now have an old police surplus Mossberg 500 that lives in the toolbox of the pickup. I’ve reached the point where having a long gun outside the home has become part of my in-vehicle EDC gear.