What????It's not deadly force unless someone actually dies.
What????
Not true. The dude went from throwing punches and a fight among equals to using deadly force.
I am confused (not unusual).
How did he "use" deadly force, is it the fact the guy was passed out & he kept swinging?
Same way trayvon did.
Does not help me one bit.
You are saying Trayvon used deadly force?
Blows to the back of the head while the guy isn't defending himself = deadly force.
We started out with a fist to cuffs and then the guy went to deadly force. I can understand the rage\adrenalin dump but the situation went from self defense to "I'm going to inflict serious bodily harm and teach him a lesson".
The onlookers start saying "Stop" soon after it becomes punishment not defense. I'd say 58 seconds in things start going grey. After that it soon gets into punishment\deadly force area.
Deadly force laws usually let the actor (person using the force) to use the amount of force that he deems needed in order to stop the threat of bodily harm that was used against him.
maybe in the trucker's mind he was using the amount of force nessasary to stop the threat. The black fellow attacked him physically.
He had made agressive moves and verbal abuse to him already so he figured a few extra smacks might keep him from getting up anytime soon.
....Side note bad guy had no ground game and telegraphed his punch. I think being black, loud and possibly hitting women was all the experience he had fighting.