Eugene Volokh, in his blog Volokh Conspiracy, is “…researching the cases dealing with self-defense rights of people who go to a place armed, knowing that it's likely to be dangerous…” to address the subject of self-defense when claimants could be accused of “probably looking for trouble.”
I've been researching the cases dealing with self-defense rights of people who go to a place armed, knowing that it's...
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This is, of course, relates to the Rittenhouse case, where KR went to a place “he had no right to be, with an AR rifle, looking for trouble.”
My perspective posted: “If government withholds resources to maintain order of law in otherwise previously safe areas, or is implicit in the violence itself, can going to those areas become “looking for trouble”, and disable any positive self-defense claim?
ACLED observed: “Approximately 94% of all pro-BLM demonstrations have been peaceful, with 6% involving reports of violence, clashes with police, vandalism, looting, or other destructive activity.
In the remaining 6%, it is not clear who instigated the violent or destructive activity.” [Presence of far-right at these small number of sites where violence erupted is inferred as a cause]
A Year of Racial Justice Protests: Key Trends in Demonstrations Supporting the BLM Movement | ACLED
Wouldn’t entering any of the 3000+ locations in the US that saw 11000+ demonstrations May 2020-2021 be “almost certainly not looking for trouble” with a 94% statistical justification?”