What’s the difference between open carry and brandishing a weapon?
carrying is carrying
brandishing is exposing......meaning to pull out or unconceal
if it was always out it shouldn't be brandishing imo
that's how I understand it at least.
What Does Brandishing Mean? And Why You Should Never Do It… - USA Carry
I’m guessing the Black dude is considered to be open carry because he is not pointing it anyone.
Bingo
Brandishing can be called a lot of different things.
“Improper Exhibition of a Weapon”
“Defensive Display”
“Unlawful Display”
But it all reduces down to one key concept: threatening. And while in your mind, at the time, you may think along the lines of “that’s not a threat – that’s a promise”, the prosecuting attorney will tend to agree with you.
were they angry......were they threatening. so lots of ambiguity here as we can see.
really depends and not as straight forward as I said above apparently.
I’m also guessing the father and son were brandishing because they were chasing, threatening and pointing their weapons at someone they were trying to detain. So even though it tastes like hypocrisy, I don’t think it’s the same thing.
I didn't see that in the video.
Even up to the point of getting punched and him trying to take the gun they never pointed it at him directly.
That's where I see a lot of confusion. I see some people on Twitter saying they shot at him before the fight and that is why he had no choice but to fight them. If that was the case, they fired at a guy running away, yeah this would be an entirely different court case. They would be 100% fucked by any and all laws I know of anywhere on Planet.
Can you tell me a time # where you see them pointing the guns at him?
I don't want to believe incorrect things.
Forget race for a moment. I acknowledge that Amos was up to no good. But the retard family admitted suspecting he was a thief, and had not witnessed any actual wrong doing, so I believe they did break the law by trying to citizens arresting him.
Do you know for certain that they didn't know about the neighbors home he was trespassing at not even an hour before this specific event occurred?
I mean it was on multiple cameras around the neighborhood and people do talk.
I'm not even sure it wasn't their own cameras that caught him (far away)
If anyone can prove they knew he broke the law, which he did, multiple times, including that day, that's all the "PROBABLE CAUSE" that is needed to make a citizens arrest that day. Which they tried, albeit rather unsuccessfully, to do.
Again, correct me where I'm wrong and I'll be happy to stop giving a shit about either of these people who are going to get railroaded and lives ruined anyways (justifiably or unjustifiably)
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