Well, I think the "real" situation got stretched a little. In this situation, the man wants his truck back. He doesn't have to beat the snot out of the lady, just grab her, make her "uncomfortable" enough not to drive away, then unlock the door and throw her out and take his car back. (I'm assuming at least the window was open since he was able to "beat the snot ouf of her.")jlangton wrote:Perfect example of why this mentality is broken...DoubleActionCHL wrote: Still, I'm not sure I can sit back and watch some guy beat a woman to death, domestic or not.
You drive up on a truck with a man outside the window beating the snot out of the woman inside. You intervene and end up fatally wounding the man, only later to find out the woman had stolen his truck, and he was trying to simply reacquire his property. This really happened locally.
Now...are you so sure you'd intervene in a male/female confrontation?
JL
If you intervened and told the guy to "STOP" right now, worst case is he'd stop and she'd take his car and you'd have messed up his chance of getting his car back. Best case is you'd avoid the lady being killed. If he continued beating her down after I yelled stop, then yeah, he might have made a critical mistake to add onto my recognition mistake that would end with him dead. I think the chance of that happening if he's actually just trying to get his car back and is not way stoned is very low. I'd take my chances with that one, but wouldn't expect anyone else to necessarily make the same decision.
p.s. You got a link to the real situation?