>What is legal situation with self defense here? "Don't ask don't tell" I'm only 10% joking. This isn't the kind of thing that gets a lot of case law built u

>What is legal situation with self defense here? "Don't ask don't tell" I'm only 10% joking. This isn't the kind of thing that gets a lot of case law built up (because 99% of the time it happens it happens in a jurisdiction that DGAF, not downtown DC) so it's really a gray area. And in the case of gray areas courts tend to default to just whatever the local norms of "how things ought to be" are. This being the DC area if someone in a suit jacket decides to punt the turkey into traffic for being a twat nothing will probably happen but some college kid from the panhandle or Mexican service worker cracks its neck and then takes it home to cook/freeze (because that's what any sensible person on a Busch Lite budget would do) they'll probably get the book thrown at them. They're real big on those sorts of "the law is relative based on your station in life" type things down their.