I understand what he did was legal. I’m just surprised that given the amount of sympathy here for Mr. Horn, Mr. White doesn’t have more support.
If the kids had weapons or if they started to break in the house I'm sure he would have tons of support.
Sounds to me like the race card backfired. If his attorney had presented him as a scared father rather than a poor black man scared of the KKK it may have turned out differently.
There have been several threads about this case and while FReepers have been on both sides, Mr. White has had plenty of support here. I have questioned Mr. White's actions and there have been people who have defended him quite emphatically to me. I think the NYT article linked above said it right in noting that these were two decent lives that intersected in a bad way. Apparently neither Mr. White nor the kid he shot were criminals or thugs before the fateful night. It's a damn shame this happened.