A man walked up to a 68-year-old Black Navy veteran in a wheelchair at the Seattle waterfront, accused him of stolen valor, ripped a patch off his wheelchair, and then shot him point blank from roughly 10 yards away. The veteran never advanced. He had a knife and a BB gun in a holster for protection out there, but he stayed put in a motorized wheelchair barely moving a mile an hour.
Bruce walks through exactly what happened, why the shooter's self-defense claim falls apart under Washington's open carry and use-of-force law, and why three and a half years for shooting a disabled veteran points to a system that treats some lives as worth less than others. He also flips the races of everyone involved and asks whether a Black man who shot a white veteran would have walked away with the same sentence.
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Chapters:
00:00:00 Seattle Waterfront Shooting Leaves Veteran Chasing Justice 🚨😤💔
00:01:38 Stolen Valor Claim Escalates Into a Shocking Public Shooting 🎖️🔫😳
00:03:14 Three and a Half Years for Shooting a Disabled Navy Veteran 🤯⚖️💭
00:04:41 Why Washington Self Defense Law Failed to Protect the Shooter 📜🚫⚖️
00:05:30 Imagine If the Victim Had Been White Instead of a Black Man 🤔⚪⚫
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