It's nothing but relevant to this discussion, because they mis-identified somebody in a murder case. Doesn't matter what the misinformation is, that's terrible reporting, and leads to people making assumptions.
Easy example - just replace "trans" with "asian, Biden supporter, Ukranian, blind man" or any other suggestive wording, and now you're introducing factors into somebody's murder that were fabricated or misunderstood.
There are actual cases where people are killed when somebody finds out they're trans, so now this article is adding this case to that talking point when it doesn't belong there. It's not relevant to the case itself, which is why this article is a bad source.
Inaccurate news is bad news.
Fox news and any other outlet I looked up were consistent with their reporting. thesource's was not. All I'm saying is that people should avoid that article if they actually want accurate reporting on the subject. I'm not interested in having a discussion based on misinformation.
That being said, cases like this, where we have to go by one person's word over another are pretty tragic, because we have to accept that justice may or may not actually be served. We have no way of knowing if Etute's life was actually in imminent danger. He claims Smith reached for a weapon, and he thought it was a gun, but even so - I would think he'd realize at some point in the exchange that there wasn't a gun. We know there was a knife, but it was still tucked away when found by police - so to suggest he was in "imminent danger" is suspect to me. Seems like he could have thrown one punch and gotten away pretty easily, as a football player and looking at pictures of Smith.
Maybe I'm missing something, but after reading about this I'm surprised Etute didn't get a 2nd degree murder charge, at least on the lower end with parole or something. Seems to me like we can reason he took this too far. The knife being found doesn't sound like murdering Smith was justified, imo.