A man was beating his girlfriend with a metal rod<\/a> outside their Florida apartment. A neighbor saw it and spoke up. The man then attacked the neighbor. She shot him. He died. No charges were filed. Police said she had the right to defend the domestic abuse victim (Defense of Others) and also the right to Stand Her Ground to defend herself. Result: abuser dead, girl friend recovering, neighbor free to go.<\/p>\nThat result could not happen here.<\/p>\n
Minnesota is a Duty To Retreat state. Girlfriend had a Duty to Retreat from her boyfriend as he was beating her with the metal rod, if she could safely do so. Neighbor, when exercising the right of Defense of Others, \u201csteps into her shoes\u201d meaning if the jury decides girlfriend could have retreated, then girlfriend could not shoot abuser to stop his attack and neighbor can\u2019t either.<\/p>\n
When neighbor intervened and abuser attacked her, she had her own Duty to Retreat, if she could safely do so. And since abuser wasn\u2019t originally attacking neighbor but only attacked her when she tried to stick up for domestic abuse victim, that makes neighbor the instigator of the confrontation between neighbor and abuser.<\/p>\n
Lesson to learn: do not intervene to protect domestic abuse victims. Let the abuser beat her as long and as hard as he wants. Let the police clean up the mess when they arrive.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the law in Minnesota, courtesy of Governor Dayton and DFL Rep. Paymar.<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
“Gun laws” aren’t about keeping people safer. They’re about keeping people subservient.<\/p>\n
That’s as opposed to laws aimed at curbing crime<\/em>, rather than people’s politically-incorrect lifestyle choices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: A man was beating his girlfriend with a metal rod outside their Florida apartment. A neighbor saw it and spoke up. The man then attacked the neighbor. She shot him. He died. No charges were filed. Police said she had the right to defend the domestic abuse victim (Defense […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37928"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37970,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37928\/revisions\/37970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}