When is it self-defense?
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🗓️ 9 December 2021
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Summary
What self-defense means in a country deeply divided over gun rights and race. And a story that shows the stakes of disappearing local news – about an Alaska community where climate change is costing them their school.
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After the high-profile trials of Kyle Rittenhouse and the men who killed Ahmaud Arbery – we wanted to unpack the legal questions with Post columnist and Georgetown law professor Paul Butler and talk about what self-defense looks like in a country with gun rights, stand-your-ground laws and deep racial divides.
In a remote town in western Alaska, climate change has become a daily reality: Thanks to erosion, the community’s only school sits just feet from a crumbling riverbank. But the state won’t pay to replace it until it falls in. Greg Kim reports from Alaska’s radio station KYUK as part of a Washington Post project on vital stories out of America's news deserts.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, so that brings us to self-defense. |
| 0:06.0 | All right, I'm just going to go over this quickly. |
| 0:09.0 | I want you to know what the basics are of the essentials. |
| 0:12.0 | Your self-defense really applies to the ag |
| 0:07.0 | to solve this problem. |
| 0:15.0 | Recently, we all watched as two high-profile trials played out in Georgia and Wisconsin. |
| 0:20.0 | Trials with different outcomes, but similar playbooks used by the defense. |
| 0:25.0 | We the jury find the defendant Kyle H. Rittenhaus not guilty. |
| 0:53.0 | We the jury find the defendant guilty. |
| 1:21.0 | We the jury find the defendant guilty. |
| 1:49.0 | We the jury find the defendant guilty. |
| 2:17.0 | We the jury find the defendant guilty. |
| 2:45.0 | We the jury find the defendant guilty. |
| 3:13.0 | We the jury find the defendant guilty. |
| 3:41.0 | We the defendant guilty. |
| 4:09.0 | We the defendant guilty. |
| 4:37.0 | We the defendant guilty. |
| 5:05.0 | We the defendant guilty. |
| 5:33.0 | We the defendant guilty. |
| 6:01.0 | We the defendant guilty. |
| 6:29.0 | We the defendant guilty. |
| 6:57.0 | We the defendant guilty. |
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