There is a whole lot coming to light right now regarding the incident. Apparently the coach tried to either keep the kid from getting back in his car before he was stabbed or tried to forcefully remove the kid from his car before the stabbing took place. Either way, the law says you cannot physically attack or restrain someone, even during a citizen's arrest. If the kid has so much as a foot in his car or had hold of any portion of the car when being handled by the coach, he had/has every right to protect himself. Wisconsin has the self-protection law that gives anyone fearing personal harm while in or at their property the right to defend themselves. The car in this case is the domicile. The person with the coach has already stated that the altercation occurred AFTER the coach crossed the river and went to confront the kids. Had he just gone on home he'd still be with his family and going to work today.
I don't like the direction that things are going today with all the knives and guns and chicken-schnits that can't stand alone on their own two feet. If they're not armed, they come as an army. and have the attack mentality of ants. I loath the idea that any sort of weapon was involved here, but I also loath the idea that two adult men don't have enough brains to just leave the situation and go home. Now with new information coming to light that the coach was the one who was doing the threatening thru grabbing or hitting while the kid was attempting to get away, I'm not so sure that the kid was in the right, even as ugly as the end result is. People today cannot know what lies inside an argument. By actually amping up the heat by going to the camp of the other party a person might be putting himself in dire straights.
I'm hearing that the kids were doing some doobie. I wonder if maybe some alcohol wasn't in the mix of the two adults....they were fishing, both parties. The dead dude's own brother is making noise that he brother was not one to back away from anything he thought he was right about. Its starting to appear as though this knot-headed approach to life cost him his. I'll wait for the end of the trial before I say much more about this. I don't like people creating a scene while I am fishing and certainly not in a park where kids and families are commonly seen. I know how absolutely irritating it is to have to deal with somebody being a true dick and as many times as I have been tempted to go flatten some jerk who probably needed it, common sense steps in and the first thing it asks is whether I am ready to die or take a serious beating. I feel pretty good about tossing them the bird and going elsewhere or home. This is how this situation should have been handled.
