My position on the McMichael incident is that they really didn’t intend to kill Arberry but the law is very strict that it’s a felony to corner someone and “false imprison” them and that if you kill in self defense while committing a felony it’s still murder. I don’t think it’s a “hate crime” but I do think felony murder unfortunately applies – it’s unfortunate because I do believe they just wanted to enforce the law but they’re not cops.
On Zimmerman and Rittenhouse my position is that what they did was absolutely idiotic and they should be judged on it. However, they shouldn’t be legally convicted on it. They didn’t corner the people, they annoyed the people and then got attacked. Idiotic, but not material to any legal question.
My position on Floyd was that I can’t determine if the drugs actually killed him from video but I believe the trial looked into that and determined that it wasn’t the drugs based on the autopsy.
If the McMichaels had stayed further away and Arberry ran at them it would be a whole different story.