[redwitch]

MDL, not going to copy your response (too long and too much of a pain to edit it on iPad) but do want to respond to a couple of points. I don't see anyone saying the younger guy is innocent. In fact, I think most of us firmly believe arresting him for striking the grandfather and for the theft of the phone was the right course of action. I think we're saying the grandfather may well have escalated the whole thing. I don't see his actions as heroic nor do I see them as villainous. I see them as perfectly human. Humans have a tendency to overreact. We say and do many wrong things when our adrenaline is flowing. I do believe both men probably overreacted. Our justice system will have to sort this out.