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=> Zimmerman Trial.....

Zimmerman Trial.....

Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Monday, July 1 2013, 23:26:53 (UTC)
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Someone finally said it, and it was a Black man, naturally. A Black lawyer said the stand-your-ground law in Florida, the one that was designed to let whites gun down Blacks whenever they felt "threatened", cuts both ways...didn't Treyvon Martin also have the legal right to stand his ground? Didn't he have the right to defend himself as best he could when he felt threatened? And of the two of them, one an adult carrying a gun and driving a SUV, the other a 17 year-old boy on foot, who had more reason to feel threatened?

Zimmerman only felt threatened as a result of what HE did, of his own actions. Martin came to that situation, not by abything he didm but because he was Black...Martin did nothing wrong that night, except be Black whereas Zimmerman went against normal procedure and followed Treyvon instead of just calling police AND he ignored the call not to follow Martin. He chose not to listen to dispatchers and stop following Treyvon...and it was his follwoing the Black kid that made the kid feel threatened...Treyvon was actually being threatened by Zimmerman, Zimmerman only got into trouble when HE chased Treyvon thereby FORCING Treyvon to defend himself, to "stand his ground".

If Zimmerman claims he was within his rights to shoot and kill a kid, who "threatened him" by slapping him around a bit, after all it isn't like he needed stitches or anything...why isn't Martin within his rights to slap Zimmerman around? How does a gun count less than a few slaps?

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Zimmerman Trial..... pancho - Monday, July 1 2013, 23:26:53 (UTC)
- Re: Zimmerman Trial..... Rashad - 07/02 04:56

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