I do not condone violence, but particularly in this case, the man attempted to first run but was then chased, and then eventually turned to fight off his attackers using a sword. As expected everyone is casting the man defending himself as the perpetrator and the attacker as the "victim". I am sure nothing bad will result of this continuation of denial of reality...
Someone "assaults" a stranger in the street by knocking off his hat.
The "assaulted" person draws a samurai sword and cut the hand of the "assaulter".
Seems pretty obvious who's at fault there.
Remove the MAGA hat of the balance. If someone is pushing you around, do you have the right to draw a motherfucking sword and cut their hand?
If yes your country is very strange and I wouldn't dare visit it.
You conveniently skipped over the part where he tried to flee and they chased him before he turned to defend himself. If some one is physically attacking some one they have a right to defend themselves, yes. I am glad you don't care to visit, we are already have too many brain dead commies born and raised here thanks.
He "just" flipped his hat off that's assault i guess i don't really know much about the american law, but retaliating with a samurai sword sounds flipping insane
why was he carrying a katana in the first place ?
Again, you conveniently skipped the part where he tried to flee but was chased down before he then decided to fight back. He was probably armed because of the almost daily occurrence of people being physically assaulted and harassed simply because they chose to wear a MAGA hat. Swords are not legal in California as far as I know, but that is besides the point. He was attacked and he defended himself, which other than the fact that he did so with a contraband sword was completely legal.
The guy with the sword needs to see some jail time, he was clearly in the wrong.
Even if the side you put forward, which is a false narrative is to be taken as fact, which it shouldn't, if someone knocks another persons hat off, that doesn't justify the use of lethal force, which a cut with a sword definitely is.
The fact is that MAGA hat man, was a dangerous weirdo who probably came in with a sword hidden up his jacket looking for trouble, he was probably yelling homophobic slurs at people and some idiot fell for the trap.
That's how I see it without getting all the facts.
This is a false narrative. I'm glad that the sword guy at least didn't have a gun.
edit: Grammatical correction
As the person being attacked, how do you know all they want to do is knock off his hat? At what point in an assault does it become justifiable to defend yourself? They did chase him down after all. What is some one to expect after being chased down by multiple people, that they only want to talk? He may be a weirdo and may have been shouting homophobic slurs, but HE HAS EVERY RIGHT TO DO SO LEGALLY. Again, the sword was not legal to posses AFAIK by California law, but that is irrelevant. If he is charged with anything it should be for having the sword, not using it to defend himself from an attack.