Future harm? How far into the future? Five seconds?Agree. He didn’t intend to kill him but he did.
That’s why he is charged with manslaughter and not murder.
If you respond to a threat of future harm, then the threat is not imminent and therefore self defense cannot be employed. Imminence is a required component of use of self defense.
I know the law.
If I am trapped with a man in a subway car, and he threatens to kill me, I would be within my rights to kill him first. Since, let’s face it, I cannot do so (without a weapon), I would forever be grateful if a Marine stepped up on my behalf to remove the threat.
That the black guy didn’t recover once the chokehold was released is probably due to drugs in his system. That’s why they’re not releasing the tox report.