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Originally Posted by speede5
Who cares what Boushie had posted on his facebook? You think Stanley knew that when the incident happened? This was two strangers meeting for the first time and nothing in Boushies past is relevent to the reaction of Stanley.
You are basically slut shaming the victim.
All of that history points to a lot of issues that led up to this and things that need to be fixed but it doesn't justify how a farmer reacted on that day.
And we need to stop calling them armed thugs. No one in the Stanley family saw the broken gun until after Colton was dead. Stanley didn't claim self defense. However Boshie got shot the gun in the vehicle was not a factor.
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Originally Posted by speede5
Of course it affects the overall picture. That's the intent of mentioning it over and over.
The amount of times I have heard drunk armed thugs in this conversation (all over the web) is crazy. Stanley did not see drunk armed thugs. No one assaulted them before the shot was fired.
I'm not saying they were there selling cookies but it is easy to sway opinion when you paint a picture.
Country kids drink on the backroads and get into all sorts of trouble, white or native. From all accounts that's what Stanley was dealing with. Drunk kids/young adults. When the bullets started flying they were running, which was the desired result, but they weren't fighting.
It's only after that we see a checkered past and people rest easy because thank god they had gangster pics on social media.
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Unless you count the 5000+ pounds of metal they were drunkenly using to sideswipe and nearly hit the family with as a weapon. But other than that one massive weapon; no, there were no weapons at all and they were not being assaulted.