*The Trayvon Martin story has gathered steam all over the country with outrage that has sparked online petitions and planned protests in Miami-Dade, Florida.
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Not only that, the FBI investigation that the Martin family has been pleading for has been granted. But, is all of the nation’s efforts, including those from residents living in the community where Trayvon Martin was killed, enough?
Ed Schultz of MSNBC’s The Ed Show, pointed out on Monday night the many people who have gone scott free because of Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law. This law is the very reason why George Zimmerman has not been arrested yet. The man should have been considered a threat and detained because of his past with the Sanford police department if nothing else.
Schultz mentioned Zimmerman’s past arrest for resisting arrest, but he also mentioned that he assaulted an officer. Not only that, Zimmerman has placed 47 calls to Sanford police department prior to this incident. There are plenty of factors present, without an FBI probe, that any second grader could assess and find suspicious enough to call for an arrest warrant on this fool.
But, the law in place protects jerks like Zimmerman stating: (more…)
Trayvon Martin & his killer, George Zimmerman
Man, this shyt makes my heart hurt bad!!! He fukken pursued that young man.
Florida’s so called Stand Your Ground law:
“A person is justified in the use of deadly force and does not have a duty to retreat if…he or she reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm.”
All this is saying is that a white person is justified in the use of deadly force and does not have a duty to retreat if…he or she reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm from any black person who happens to be anywhere in their vicinity.
There is nothing new about that. This interpretation has been applied in countless cases throughout the country where an unarmed black person is killed by a white person who just felt like killing a n*****..
We get that. So all this talk about Florida Stand Your Ground law is nothing new to black people.
But the problem for Zimmerman is that he didn’t kill this perceived “dangerous” black kid when he had the chance, i.e. when he was approaching him. So once the perceived danger is pass, there is no more ground to stand.
Once Zimmerman started pursuing the kid, the kid is the one who now have the right to stand his ground and use deadly force.
But he ran, so how is it possible to make the case for standing ground on behalf of the pursuer?
This is going to be interesting.
Every person in Florida should march to the capital and rescind this absurd law. I can see people with premeditated thoughts using this law as an excuse to murder people and get off on technicalities. Totally ridiculous and makes a mockery out of the judicial system to the core! Dam, I wish Johnnie Cochran was alive to handle this case or Thurgood Marshall!!!