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Again, it's the law, you push someone, you put hands on someone in a threatening manner, and escalation is very possible. Which is why the law against the instigator. When two people fight, it's because neither is willing to back down, but it's also because one person is instigating.
I can see it playing out both ways depending on legal representation. I believe blacky got offened and pushed the camera man and probably made a threatening gesture, the other dude stepped in, probably got shoved as well, and then the guy got cold cocked.
If that is the sequence of events it's self defense, the only charge they can levy will be trespassing. Aside from the tussle it did not escalate and the people left the premises. The only way trespassing can stick is because they stayed despite being told several times to leave private property.
Perhaps, but camera guy did a piss poor job of documenting what needed to be in order to rescue their case. As it stands, unless there is security cam footage from within the lobby of the building, it's going to be the word of the property owners and any witnesses against the two trespassers (let alone two trespassers who hit a black man and called him a monkey). Part of the argument I'm making here has to do with Sewell's complete lack of sense about the optics - we all know by now that we don't live in a world of justice by the book.
Everything you type is a lie. Either that or you spent 100x more time blathering on your keyboard than actually watching the videos.
Perhaps, but camera guy did a piss poor job of documenting what needed to be in order to rescue their case
That's true.
As it stands, unless there is security cam footage from within the lobby of the building, it's going to be the word of the property owners and any witnesses against the two trespassers (let alone two trespassers who hit a black man and called him a monkey). Part of the argument I'm making here has to do with Sewell's complete lack of sense about the optics - we all know by now that we don't live in a world of justice by the book.
That is also true, and it's also true that it's not what you know, it's what you can prove. I don't know if this would even go to a jury trial, as I don't know the law in Aus, but I do know it's a universal that you have a right defend yourself if you're being assaulted.
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