I fully understand your position, and I don't disagree that from your perspective it looks bad. And yes, females often excuse their abusers after they've had time to think about it. However, there is no evidence that I'm aware of that he's ever laid a hand on any of the women, and there is evidence that they were not telling the truth about what happened.gigag04 wrote:A female victim recanting an accusation that she earlier leveled against an alleged aggressor does not in my way decrease the likelihood that crime occurred to me.
Two different female victims is critically alarming.
The added extra behavior is pretty damning in my mind.
I'm not sure what you're looking for in aggressive criminals but roughing up women is high on my list. I know it can be interesting that two LEOs are thinking he's a thug. I was going to post that he is a different word ut the forum edits it to "thug." We're not always right. Just see typical behavior a lot. (Or did see...)
The stress argument doesn't hold water to me in his case. He hasn't been in combat getting blown up. I've served and entered a few high stress situations as an LEO side by side with guys that were blown up in the sandbox and mountains. PTSD is real but I don't think he gets a pass. I may be jaded though so take what I say with a grain of salt.
I'm a vet, so far be it from me to minimize the stress of combat, but in my mind the stress he was under rises to an entirely different level. He had the full power and wealth of the state come down on him for a crime he clearly did not commit, and even after the evidence was in and the verdict was obvious, the state refused to back down. Add to that the fact that he had constant threats on his life and never knew when he went outside where he was living if it would be his last day and the fact that a huge number of people were calling him murderer and wanting him dead, and I'm not sure that even combat rises to that level. Combat has been said to be hours and hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror. Even in a combat zone there are places where you feel relatively safe. There was no place where he could feel safe, and that pressure was on him 24/7.
I'm not trying to make excuses for him. He has clearly been using very bad judgment recently. I just think there's an obvious reason for it other than the "fact" that he's a thug.
I don't think I have much to worry about in that regard. I don't follow hoodies behind houses and I can't paint a lick. 
