Wisconsin river tubing stabbing suspect claims self-defense, says he was falsely accused as a 'child molester'

The man charged in the Wisconsin river deadly stabbing episode at a tubing hotspot claims he acted in self-defense when a group attacked him and accused him of being a pedophile.

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But once confronted by investigators, Miu said he, his wife and two friends had come to the river that morning to go tubing, and he had acted in "self-defense" when a group of young people swarmed around him while he went out looking for one of his friends’ lost cell phone, which was in a floater bag.

Miu said the group of young people accused him of being a "child molester," and video captured someone in a crowd converging toward Miu claiming that he was a pedophile "looking for little girls," according to the affidavit. Miu, seen on cell phone video taking out a knife clipped to his own pocket, claimed that others "produced weapons" and had two knives of their own.