{"id":2216801,"date":"2024-04-09T18:12:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T22:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-right-to-self-defense-is-once-again-under-attack\/"},"modified":"2024-04-09T18:14:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T22:14:35","slug":"the-right-to-self-defense-is-once-again-under-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-right-to-self-defense-is-once-again-under-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"The Right to Self-Defense Faces New Threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-right-to-self-defense-is-once-again-under-attack%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2216801&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The summary covers\u200c the challenges faced in self-defense cases \u200bin the \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/president-trump-please-pardon-jon-woods-a-victim-of-process-crimes-like-michael-flynn\/\" title=\"President Trump, Please Pardon Jon Woods, a Victim of Process Crimes Like Michael Flynn\">criminal justice system<\/a>,\u2062 emphasizing the complexities of legal implications and\u200c media portrayals. It delves into a specific\u2063 case\u200d involving \u2063Nicolae Miu, \u2063a man\u200c charged with\u200d first-degree murder for defending himself against attackers. The trial reveals inconsistencies in witness testimonies, highlighting the broader issue of misrepresentation \u2063and \u2063the right to self-defense.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There aren\u2019t a lot of guarantees in the criminal justice system. But for a long time now, there\u2019s been at least one thing you can be pretty sure of \u2014 if you kill someone else in self-defense, there\u2019s a good chance you\u2019re going to be charged with murder.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Trayvon Martin called George Zimmerman a cracker right before pounding his head into the pavement, and famously, the entire country \u2014 including the president of the United States \u2014 determined immediately that George Zimmerman was the bad guy. And of course, Kyle Rittenhouse very nearly had to spend the rest of his life in prison for the crime of defending himself against several people who tried to kill him, including a pedophile who just got out of a mental hospital and an Antifa footsoldier who drew a handgun on him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Everyone\u2019s heard of these cases because in both instances, there was a clear racial angle to push. Even though he didn\u2019t kill any black people, the Kyle Rittenhouse incident happened in the context of BLM mobs torching cities. That\u2019s why he became an instant target. George Zimmerman, for his part, gave Barack Obama a chance to talk about how systemically racist America is. So his case was useful for a moment as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But there are many self-defense cases that don\u2019t make the mainstream news, at least not nearly to the same extent. And all of them, to one degree or another, contradict the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-attack-sen-eric-schmitt-for-fighting-dei-racism-in-the-military\/\" title=\"Media Criticize Sen. Eric Schmitt for Opposing DEI Policies in Armed Forces\">prevailing media narrative<\/a>, so the corporate press ignores them. But they\u2019re important to talk about, in part because they show how prosecutors and witnesses are willing to lie to imprison people who exercise one of their most fundamental rights, which is the right of self-defense. And how casually they will destroy people\u2019s lives for the crime of trying to preserve their own lives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So I\u2019m going to go in-depth into one of these cases, which is still ongoing and hasn\u2019t gotten nearly as much attention as it deserves. Plus, it\u2019s the premiere day for \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/show\/judged-by-matt-walsh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">JUDGED<\/a>,\u201d so a deep-dive on a court case seemed fitting.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/show\/judged-by-matt-walsh\">WATCH: \u2018JUDGED By Matt Walsh\u2019 on DailyWire+<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here\u2019s the background.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the summer of 2022, a man in his early 50\u2019s named Nicolae Miu was out tubing with a group of people, including his wife, in the Apple River in Wisconsin. Apparently a member of his party dropped their phone somewhere in the river, and Nicolae Miu left his group and went looking for it. That\u2019s when, around 3:40 p.m., Miu encountered a couple of additional tubing groups \u2014 one consisting of a bunch of teenagers, and the other including some adults.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Most of the involved parties are under the influence of alcohol and other drugs to varying degrees. They began exchanging some words. Here\u2019s what happened next:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s clear from this footage that, throughout the entire incident right up until their friend gets stabbed, the crowd of teenagers doesn\u2019t seem to be afraid of anything, or fearful for their lives in any way. And that makes sense. Miu is much older than they are, and, though they wouldn\u2019t have known this, he just had quadruple bypass surgery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meanwhile, these teenagers are mostly football players in prime physical condition. So they appear to be very much the aggressors as they jeer and taunt the older man and accuse him of \u201clooking for a little girl.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then something happens off-camera. An adult woman, who came over from another tubing group, gets in the man\u2019s face. He apparently makes some sort of contact with her, and the mob pounces. They push the man and begin hitting him repeatedly after he goes down in the water. Meanwhile the woman is fine \u2014 she\u2019s not hurt in any way. Only after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/minnesota-man-fatally-stabs-wife-during-bible-study\/\" title=\"Minnesota man fatally stabs wife during Bible study\">man fatally stabs<\/a> one of his attackers \u2014 a teenager named Isaac Schuman \u2014 does the mood change. Schuman bled out on the scene. The man also stabbed several others who were attacking him.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/episode\/ep-1343-member\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Based on these facts, within 48 hours, the D.A. charged Nicolae Miu with first-degree murder. What\u2019s followed, nearly two years later, is nothing short of a train wreck.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are air-tight cases, close cases, and then there\u2019s this. Pretty much every prosecution witness has demonstrated very clearly that they\u2019re either lying or completely unsure of what happened two years ago. This is such a debacle that very real questions need to be asked about why this case was brought, and why these prosecutors still have jobs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019ll start with the incredible testimony of a witness named Larrion Davis, who recorded some of the footage of the incident. Under cross-examination (from one of Kyle Rittenhouse\u2019s old lawyers, incidentally), Davis admits he lied to the police about why the group was upset with Miu. Watch:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s hard to believe this is a real interaction between two humans. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lawyer: \u201cYou said you saw him taking pictures of the girls.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Witness: \u201cYes, I said that.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lawyer: \u201cDid you see it?\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Witness: \u201cNo, I said it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To be clear, we\u2019re talking about falsely accusing a man of pedophilia, two years after the fact. And the only excuse he can come up with for lying is, \u201cThere was a lot going on.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Keep in mind, this is a prosecution witness. This should be the end of the case right here. This is the clearest possible evidence that the people Miu confronted decided, long after the fact, to come up with a story to justify their aggression towards him. They have no credibility whatsoever.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You\u2019ll remember in the video, someone shouted that Miu was \u201clooking for a girl.\u201d But on cross-examination, another witness, Jawahn Cockfield, admitted that the claim wasn\u2019t based on any evidence whatsoever. Watch:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So they just called this man a \u201craper\u201d who\u2019s interested in little girls, as a way of scoping out the situation. That\u2019s their way of gathering intel, apparently. And then, elsewhere in the testimony, Cockfield claims to be shocked that the man, in response, turned around and became upset.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">None of this makes any sense. And as the trial went on, it continued to make no sense. For example, on cross-examination, it was revealed that the dead teenager\u2019s best friend, Owen Peloquin, told police \u2014 on the day of the incident \u2014 that Miu was looking for a lost phone, not underage girls. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Listen to the defense attorney read Peloquin\u2019s prior statement, and then watch as Peloquin tries to weasel out of the admission:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now, two years later, Peloquin\u2019s memory is suddenly better. And by that, he means his memory is worse. Now he doesn\u2019t recall the guy ever saying anything about missing a phone. And he had no way of figuring out how to tell the police any of this, because he\u2019s just 19-years-old. And 19-year-olds are apparently completely unable to use Google or cellphones or dial 911, evidently.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These are strange lapses in the prosecution\u2019s case, to say the least. And it keeps going. Peloquin also testifies that he simply can\u2019t remember the fact that one of his friends was shouting \u201cFor the culture\u201d to egg on a fight. Watch:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Admittedly, I had to look this one up, because I\u2019m not a teenager. If you go on Urban Dictionary, you\u2019ll find that \u201cfor the culture\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=For%20the%20Culture\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">means<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When you do something you know you usually wouldn\u2019t have done and are doing it purely for the hype factor of going against your usual judgment to instead try something new and different.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is what one of the \u201cwitnesses\u201d was shouting as the mob descended on this 52-year-old man.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is the kind of fact that, if you\u2019re trying to make Nicolae Miu out to be the aggressor, is kind of inconvenient. So Owen just pretends he doesn\u2019t remember it happening. Problem solved, according to the prosecutors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These kinds of inconsistencies are continuing to pile up as the trial goes along. But a few facts were definitively established. One is that, contrary to what some of these teenagers said, Miu never knocked a woman down at any point during this altercation. She was captured on the recording, standing upright and holding her phone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additionally, Miu never stabbed anyone until he was in the water, surrounded by a mob that was punching him in the face. So Nicolae Miu waited until his life was in danger before he used deadly force.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And once he began stabbing people, he didn\u2019t indiscriminately start swinging. Instead, he only targeted the people who were targeting him \u2014 including Isaac Schuman, who put his hands on Miu\u2019s neck. Watch:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s not an exaggeration to say that the prosecution has not presented a single witness to bolster its claim that this was first-degree murder. Instead, every single witness rebutted their argument. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here for example is another witness, A.J. Martin, who concedes that ganging up on a man in his 50s and beating him may, in fact, not deescalate an already-tense situation:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So far, we have the prosecution establishing the following facts: Most of its witnesses are liars. It was completely reasonable for this 50-year-old man to fear for his life. One of the teenagers had his hand on this man\u2019s neck while the others pummeled him from behind. And that they all lied about him being a pedophile, two years after the fact.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is not exactly the kind of case it takes Perry Mason to win. But somehow, once again, things got worse for the prosecution. Yet another witness claimed that the group was \u201cafraid\u201d of Nicolae Miu, but began to feel a little more secure as other adults began surrounding him as well. So he\u2019s presenting this image of a deranged 50-year-old man who\u2019s freaking him out. Then the defense attorney shows a photo of the witness looking extremely enthusiastic and not remotely afraid. Watch:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That\u2019s not the face of someone who\u2019s afraid for his life, and who\u2019s grateful that other adults have appeared to deal with a threat. Everyone looking at this footage knows that. This is yet another prosecution witness who is lying, overtly, on the stand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I could go on for another hour dissecting every other aspect of this case, and how totally disastrous it\u2019s been for the prosecution, but you get the point. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In no sane country is this a first-degree murder case. And by the way, there is no \u201cduty to retreat\u201d in Wisconsin, but even if there were, there was no real chance for this man to get away once the mob descended on him. This is a completely unjustifiable prosecution no matter how you look at it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was brought for the same reason that most other self-defense claims are brought \u2014 to terrorize the rest of the population into submission. Remember how the Rittenhouse prosecutor said \u201ceveryone takes a beating now and then?\u201d We\u2019re pretty close to the prosecutors in this case saying the same thing. That\u2019s more or less their argument at this point \u2014 that 52-year-old men should just accept their mob beatings, rather than defend themselves. But that is obviously outrageous. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a sane society, if you harass and assault someone, whatever happens next \u2014 whatever violence erupts as a result of your choices \u2014 is your fault. If you don\u2019t want to get shot or stabbed, don\u2019t go around trying to bully random strangers just for fun.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The reason this case isn\u2019t on every mainstream channel is that the mob happened to be white, for the most part. But this is every bit as serious and coordinated an attack on the right to self-defense as the Rittenhouse and Zimmerman trials were. The judge should dismiss the charges. The prosecutors should be disbarred, and new prosecutors should consider looking into perjury charges for some of these witnesses. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If none of that happens \u2014 and if somehow the jury convicts \u2014 then we can say with certainty that, just a couple years after the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, the right of self-defense has been suspended in the state of Wisconsin. Everyone living there should either move, or prepare accordingly. And the rest of us should do everything we can to preserve our fundamental rights while we still have them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the criminal justice system, one thing has been consistent\u2013\u2013if you kill in self-defense, you might face murder charges. 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