Not that he deserved to die, but I'm not gonna cry over the loss of him either.

I suppose "sounds like he was an asshole" is a wonderful excuse to both minimize and trivialize the death of others, allowing us to justify our basest and most crass emotions as somehow rational.

Porter had no problem trivializing the potential death of the uber driver when he tried to commandeer the car and threaten to run over him (kill him) with it.

It's rarely the small little argument that happens that gets someone killed, like the headline in the OP. It's what happens right before the shots are fired that matters. Being a drunk asshole and puking in the car didn't get Porter killed. Trying to steal the car and threatening to kill the driver is what got him killed.

I don't know if it was a good shoot or not. I wasn't there. None of us were. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't, but it wasn't as simple as the OP headline makes it seem.

Wow.

JFC

And yes, that is exactly what you implied.

Drunken jerk made a threat to commit a violent felony against the driver - "Well if you’re not going to shoot me, I (am) going to run you over with your own car".

Following that threat, Drunken Jerk actually tried to access the vehicle which escalated the incident from a threat to an attempt which brings self defense into play.

Do you really think that if the police believed it wasn't justified they would have released him without charge?

Drunken Jerk is pushing up daisies due to his own actions.

in Florida. That case still hasn't been resolved. He has been out on bail for the last five years.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/criminal/Trial-postponed-in-Pasco-theater-shooting-due-to-stand-your-ground-uncertainty_171176116

Don't expect the justice system to have your back if you escalate an argument. Our country is insane.

be a made up story to cover murder

The article doesn't tell us all that much. But, it basically says uber man shot the guy because the dead guy went to the car's open driver's door and said "Well if you're not going to shoot me, I (am) going to run you over with your own car." To me, if that's all that happened, that doesn't get uber guy out of some sort of charges.

However, if the guy that got shot was actually in the car, and taking action to back up his threat, I think uber guy is in the clear. If there isn't any evidence to disprove his story, he's not the one that needs video (even though his story could be made up). He doesn't have to prove his story...the Prosecutor has to disprove it.