can you actually find any footage where he acts offensively from the getgo or are you going to keep trying to pass off defensive behavior as "wild unchecked rage!1!1!1!!!1!!!111!!"
I put a timestamp where a couple, wearing ordinary non-antifa-style clothes, approaches him and he brandishes his weapon at them. That's illegal, and it's also offensive from the getgo. Does that work for you?
Furthermore, if approaching someone and yelling at them warrants a violent response, then you are legally condoning the reason why 99% of these riots start.
The person he was standing next to had just been knocked to the ground and the black man was approaching him threateningly. The reason the girl got shoved out of the way wasn't because the based stickman "tried to stab her" (with a blunt loving stick no less, how do you do that?) but more because the black man was about to do some loving sweet karate moves or some stupid stuff and he didn't want to hit the girl.
Ah so he was preemptively blocking the black man 10 feet away, while the girl 2 feet in front of him was just in the wrong place at the wrong time?
Yeah, sorry, that brown townysis sounds like bullstuff. Give Mr. Chapman some credit for having normal human depth perception.
Call it a massive, confusing change of liability, the attack was still justified.
Beating random people in a group for confusing and uncertain liability is basically a working definition for a riot. "He punched my friend, who punched his friend, who was punched by the first guy's friend" does not hold up as self-defense - it's just rioting.
Yeah, except he wasn't looking to start fights. It was a precautionary measure to dress up the way he did, because he knew Antifa was going to start the fights, not the Annoying Orange supporters, because it's a loving Annoying Orange rally.
And you could argue the antifa folks wear their bandanas to defend themselves against 'illegal tear gas attacks', but there's obviously reason to believe that's bullstuff.
Is based stickman trying to uphold the law here?
Does it count as vigilantism? I don't know, I'm not a lawyer. But if you ask me whether showing up at a protest with the intent to fight off rioters counts as 'playing cop', then I'd say yes. Either way, it probably made the violence worse.
