DJ Akademiks on Karmelo Anthony case

    by willow loves drip: DJ Akademiks

    DJ Akademiks weighed in on the Karmelo Anthony and Austin Metcalf case, claiming social media has led people to believe self-defense laws give them carte blanche to act however they please. He argued that using deadly force in response to a minor altercation frequently crosses the line out of self-defense. "That's unnecessary escalation," he said. "It stops being self-defense.

    Transcript (en)

    Now, this is another thing that people are not understanding, too. And this relates a little bit to the Chud the Builder case. People keep thinking that stand your ground means crash out, which it doesn't. You know, first of all, this situation wasn't a stand your ground situation. And even with the Chud the Builder thing, that's still not a stand your ground situation, technically. it could be seen as one but they're not right in stand your ground cases you have no duty to retreat but in self-defense cases you do have you do have some duty to not escalate that's the thing right and I hope I hope you understand both points so it stands your ground if someone comes to you with an issue you don't have to run away right you can stay there and protect yourself and even Even if protecting yourself means he was chasing which that involved what happened with Zimmerman right That even protected It pretty much the don start none won be none law right But that's not self-defense. Self-defense usually is not escalating, which means not because someone punched you, means you immediately shoot them. that's a unnecessary escalation that is not proportional and then it's not self-defense it's not covered if someone pushes you shows you to get out of a tent or punches you, whatever happened unless there's some other factors you can't just pull out a knife and stab them and again I'm not that familiar with every detail of this case I don't want to just cast aspersions on how this kid handle the situation clearly wasn't good. But, you know, I don't want to use or try to refer to facts that I'm not too sure of at this moment. But, yeah.