The Feds Just DROPPED The Hammer On Antifa! https://youtu.be/ENPZEZ1wCmw?si=BCEGt_99RdCL1bQF Appeals almost never end this way. Former Austin Police Officer Christopher Taylor was convicted by a jury for a police shooting. Then something extraordinarily rare happened: an appellate court not only overturned the conviction, but entered a judgment of acquittal instead of sending the case back for a new trial. Andrew Branca breaks down the court's reasoning, the Texas self-defense statutes at issue, the legal presumption of reasonableness, and why the appellate judges concluded that no rational jury could have found beyond a reasonable doubt that Taylor's use of force was unlawful. The discussion also covers the shootings of Michael Ramos and Michael Da Silva, prosecutorial strategy during the George Floyd era, and the difference between actual intent and reasonable perception of an imminent deadly threat. The bigger question is whether this conviction should have happened in the first place—and what it says about politically charged prosecutions.