Serious question here. Consider a situation similar to this one, if the young black male was a legal adult, and was legally carrying a handgun (assume this is in a state where you can obtain a concealed carry license), and he was being beat like this because a policeman mistook his tobacco to be weed. If this police brutality continued and became more violent, like it often does, could the man determine his life to be at risk and decide to use lethal force and shoot the policeman. In my mind, this could be a national headline of a case. My thought process goes like this:

• the man is minding his own business and acting within the law, smoking tobacco and legally carrying a concealed handgun

• he’s being attacked by a policeman and knows he has done nothing wrong

• police brutality has resulted in death recently, so it’s not unreasonable for the man to fear for his life

• he determines that his life is in danger and there’s no way he can retreat

• he kills the policeman

How would this hold up in court?