Well, did you obviously make up your mind before ALL the facts are in? Yes. In the words of Bartleby: "I would prefer not to."
Sure, I'll wait until all the facts are in. If I'm wrong, I'll admit it. But I don't think I'll be wrong.
When I first heard the official stories about Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown, I put two and two together and doubted the official version.
The problem is due the past record of the media ignoring the staggering black crime rate and the overwhelming attacks by blacks on whites, many whites simply can't believe that a white or whites can be the perp(s) and guilty of a crime involving a black person.
Reading comments on other conservative forums by posters who actually believe Arbery was the aggressor because he charged the McMichaels leaves me stunned.
If it were a white man running down the road accosted by two armed black persons, you know what their reaction would be then.
"he was trying to protect himself from getting shot"
"the blacks had no right to accost him and point a loaded weapon at him"
"the blacks are guilty of first degree murder"
Those would be the comments I'd be reading if Arbery were white and the McMichaels were black.
Whites have to accept that other white people can screw up and commit crimes.
I don't think it's first degree murder, but the whole thing could have been avoided if the McMichaels had simply called the police instead of taking the law into their own hands.