Personally I'm in no way vouching for Knight's lifestyle or prior conduct. My interest is only in simple fairness.
Violence seems to relentlessly
follow Knight wherever he goes and he’s got numerous bullet scars to prove it. Last weekend Knight was in the congested
parking lot of Tam’s Burgers at Central and Rosecrans Avenues in Compton, CA.
Apparently once again violence
broke out while Knight was seated in his truck at the drive in. Knight understandably fled for his
life. In the process Knight apparently ran
over his friend Terry Carter killing him and injured another man.
Knight was well known to the witnesses
present. Under the circumstances Knight’s flight seemed
clearly necessary. Knight fled to safety
and called his lawyer, James Blatt. Knight then quickly
made himself available for the L.A. County Sheriff’s officers.
Knight is now charged with murder,
attempted murder and two counts of fleeing the scene of an accident.
By the way I went to the
scene to investigate myself and most notably there are no surveillance cameras that could
have obtained video of this event. If
any video exists it would have to come from a hand held cellphone or dashboard camera
of a vehicle.
I also flew my camera drone overhead
obtaining video of the entire area. The
images clearly show that lot is surrounded by an unusual and unnecessary brick
wall that significantly limited Knight's options or anyone’s escape through the narrow
entrances and exits.
With the expected busy activity in
the congested parking lot on a weekend night, quick vehicular escape from that
lot would be nearly impossible without colliding with people or vehicles. Had there been reasonable driveway space
instead of the brick wall I suspect that no injury or death would have
occurred.
When the laws related to
exchanging information and rendering aid to accident victims there were promulgated there were no
paramedics, just ambulance drivers and there were certainly no cellphones in
everyone’s pocket. Times have changed.
Those injured in Tam’s
parking lot almost immediately got the best help modern medicine could provide.
Knight is no paramedic or physician and
reasonably understood help would be on the way.
Knight simply followed the natural law of, fight or flight choosing the
later.
Cops and prosecutors have it
in for Knight and apparently will go to any length to jail him whether there is
evidence or not.
They want to keep Knight
behind bars while this tragic case is tried in perhaps a year or two. They also know that Knight’s criminal defense will deplete most
or all of his financial assets.
I simply can’t see any jury-convicting
Knight who was obviously fleeing for his very life of anything here.
As for the victims and their
families the only thing that really matters now is civil justice and financial compensation. That’s why we all have insurance.
Using the Criminal Justice
System for vendettas and publicity is wrong.
The cops and prosecutors need to recognize their duty and not waste
taxpayer money on their current efforts to prosecute or persecute Knight.
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