17 Year Old Pleads Not Guilty In O'Shae Sibley's Stabbing Death. Analysis With NY Criminal Defense Attorney David Schwartz on CBS 2.

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0:00 the 17 year old high school student 0:02 charged in the stabbing death of 0:04 28-year-old O'Shea Sibley will be tried 0:06 as an adult Sibley had been dancing with 0:09 friends at a Brooklyn gas station when 0:10 police say they got into a confrontation 0:12 with another group CBS 2's Alice Gainer 0:15 was in court for the suspect's 0:16 arraignments 0:18 seventeen-year-old Dimitri Popov entered 0:20 the courtroom and looked at his family 0:21 in the gallery as they waved they said 0:23 nothing after you have any comment at 0:25 all hop-off's attorney entered a knock 0:27 guilty plea on his behalf on charges 0:29 that include second-degree murder as a 0:30 hate crime for the stabbing death of 28 0:32 year old O'Shea Sibley he regrets what 0:35 happens certainly does but it doesn't 0:37 mean that he's guilty of a crime on July 0:39 29th Sibley was dancing with friends at 0:41 a gas station in Midwood Brooklyn the 0:43 NYPD says a group of teens got into an 0:45 argument with Sibley and his friends and 0:47 spewed homophobic slurs and anti-black 0:49 statements at them security camera video 0:51 shows both groups walking away Sibley 0:53 then comes back to confront Popoff who 0:55 was recording with his phone allegedly 0:57 continuing to say hateful remarks Sibley 1:00 is seen following the teen then lunging 1:01 at him the Brooklyn D.A says Popoff
1:03 allegedly reached into his pocket and 1:05 pointed a knife at one of Sibley's 1:06 friends threatening to stab him the 1:08 stabbing happened out of view of the 1:10 cameras allegedly at the hands of Popov 1:12 the Brooklyn D.A notes Sibley did not 1:14 have a weapon defending yourself from 1:16 being an anti gay or an anti-black 1:19 comment and arguing back is not a cause 1:23 for someone to take a weapon and do what
1:27 was done pop-off's attorney claims his 1:28 client did not hurl hate speech and I 1:30 suspect that other people did that were 1:33 not arrested he says they're looking 1:35 into self-defense but it's early 1:36 criminal defense attorney David Schwartz 1:38 who is not involved in the case explains 1:40 what that would require what the defense 1:42 needs to show is that this um Act was 1:46 justified and that the defendant 1:49 reasonably believed that his life was in 1:52 harm or he was in danger of physical 1:54 harm the defendant first had to try to 1:58 retreat from the harm before invoking 2:01 the self-defense rallies and vigils have 2:04 been held in Sibley's honor in support 2:05 of the lgbtqia plus Community it robs 2:08 not just the family but an entire 2:11 community of the sense of Safety and 2:14 Security on the hate crime count if 2:16
convicted it's a minimum 20 years behind 2:18 line bars the maximum 25 to Life 2:20 popoff's next court date is October 10th 2:22 outside of the courthouse in downtown 2:24 Brooklyn Alice Gainer CBS 2 News