I believe this is what they used for the ruling. Rightly or not... 776.041 Use or threatened use of force by aggressor.—The justification described in the preceding sections of this chapter is not available to a person who: (2) Initially provokes the use or threatened use of force against himself or herself,
What constitutes starting a fight? If you tell someone that what they are doing is illegal and they get irate and start arguing with you then who started the fight?
I don’t have any information. You’re referencing your question above? We’d need hours of questioning to work that out. What’s your relationship with the other person. What’s the age/sex/size of the parties? What’s the setting? What’s the illegal act? How was your tone when you started the interaction? Is whatever they’re doing any of your fucking business?
This is the guy? I thought from the video that he was a frail old man. This dude looks young and is all tatted up.
This story wouldn't have gotten anywhere near the attention if he had been accurately portrayed. The ONLY reason there was a shadow of a doubt is that he was presented as a feeble senior who was justifiably afraid of the big black dude. Click bait.
Also a lot of "we're going to protest because this white guy will probably get away with killing this black guy".