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There's a pretty big difference in the plausible threat between a random guy charging you in the middle of an active riot and/or protest versus 'I have sat down in the wrong team's section of an athletics carnival with a plethora of people around and somebody has laid hands on me whilst trying to move me away'.
Using this logic if say Nikola Jokic got confused during an NBA Playoffs Final game today and sat down on the Clippers Bench, prompting Kawhi Leonard to shove him whilst trying to get him to leave, it would be fine for Jokic to escalate to lethal force and shiv Kawhi in front of America? Your argument tracks if it's a one-on-one unprompted interaction in a dark alleyway with uncapped potential consequences for losing, but is pretty blatantly insane in this circumstance unless you think the local track meet participants were going to form a lynch mob.
The defendant is alleging a history of bullying from the person who got stabbed. I don't know if that's true, but if it is it would substantiate claims of self-defense.
It'd make them substantially weaker in terms of escalating to lethal force.
'Here is the guy who is mean to me occasionally and has not murdered me on previous iterations, TIME TO START SHIVVING' is not a defense.
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