Court of public opinion looms large in George Zimmerman murder trial

CrazyPaul said:
Yes, alot of it happened. There are some innocent black men in prison just because they are black. Sad! However, it was worse in the past including MLK who just fought for civil rights.
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Yes, the state prison in my state (AL DOC) has been mostly blacks for many, many years, probably since reconstruction due to all white jurors, before it was huge mistake.
 
Jiro said:
nope. gun is to kill, not to warn. if she doesn't wanna kill.. then get a taser.
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Wait a minute. Is it illegal to fire a warning shot anytime anywhere? For example, someone is trying to break in my house, I can't fire a warning shot?
 
CrazyPaul said:
Wait a minute. Is it illegal to fire a warning shot anytime anywhere? For example, someone is trying to break in my house, I can't fire a warning shot?
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nope. no warning shot. very very illegal. it's a safety hazard as well. you could kill an innocent person. think about it - you fired off a warning shot in your own home.... where do you think a bullet would go?

very simple.... point a gun at him and yell. if he's not complying... shoot'em! if you want a gun but don't want to kill a person... then get a tazer.
 
Jiro said:
nope. no warning shot. very very illegal. it's a safety hazard as well. you could kill an innocent person. think about it - you fired off a warning shot in your own home.... where do you think a bullet would go?

very simple.... point a gun at him and yell. if he's not complying... shoot'em! if you want a gun but don't want to kill a person... then get a tazer.
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OIC, I understand that a warning shot can be fatal. So a good judgement is a must for gun owners who defend their home and family.
 
African Americans benefit from Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” self-defense law at a rate far out of proportion to their presence in the state’s population, despite an assertion by Attorney General Eric Holder that repealing “Stand Your Ground” would help African Americans.

Black Floridians have made about a third of the state’s total “Stand Your Ground” claims in homicide cases, a rate nearly double the black percentage of Florida’s population. The majority of those claims have been successful, a success rate that exceeds that for Florida whites.

Nonetheless, prominent African Americans including Holder and “Ebony and Ivory” singer Stevie Wonder, who has vowed not to perform in the Sunshine State until the law is revoked, have made “Stand Your Ground” a central part of the Trayvon Martin controversy.

Holder, who was pressured by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and other progressive groups to open a civil rights case against acquitted neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman in the 2012 shooting death of 17-year-old Martin, criticized Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” self-defense law in a speech Tuesday before the NAACP.

The law was not invoked by Zimmerman’s defense team but was included in instructions to the jury.

“We must confront the underlying attitudes, the mistaken beliefs and the unfortunate stereotypes that serve too often as the basis for police action and private judgments. Separate and apart from the case that has drawn the nation’s attention, it’s time to question laws that senselessly expand the concept of self-defense and sow dangerous conflict in our neighborhood,” Holder said to applause in his speech before the NAACP Tuesday.

“These laws try to fix something that was never broken. There has always been a legal defense for using deadly force if — and the ‘if’ is important — if no safe retreat is available. But we must examine laws that take this further by eliminating the common-sense and age-old requirement that people who feel threatened have a duty to retreat, outside their home, if they can do so safely. By allowing and perhaps encouraging violent situations to escalate in public, such laws undermine public safety,” Holder said.

“The list of resulting tragedies is long and, unfortunately, has victimized too many who are innocent. It is our collective obligation; we must stand OUR ground to ensure — (cheers, applause, music) — we must stand our ground to ensure that our laws reduce violence, and take a hard look at laws that contribute to more violence than they prevent,” Holder said.

But approximately one third of Florida “Stand Your Ground” claims in fatal cases have been made by black defendants, and they have used the defense successfully 55 percent of the time, at the same rate as the population at large and at a higher rate than white defendants, according to a Daily Caller analysis of a database maintained by the Tampa Bay Times. Additionally, the majority of victims in Florida “Stand Your Ground” cases have been white.

African Americans used “Stand Your Ground” defenses at nearly twice the rate of their presence in the Florida population, which was listed at 16.6 percent in 2012.
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Read more: Florida blacks benefit from Florida 'Stand Your Ground' | The Daily Caller
 
» Niece: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Would Not Wear A Hoodie Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!

“Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would very likely not wear a hoodie,” she said. “I can assure you he would not wear sagging pants.”

Dr. King made this statement on the Andrea Tantaros Radio Show on Tuesday after being asked what she thought of the image entitled MLK Hoodie – April 4th, 1968.

“I can almost promise you Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would not wear a hoodie,” she further emphasized later in the interview.

Dr. King also said that people need to think with grace rather than emotions in reference to the image and the overall backlash to the George Zimmerman verdict.

“There was a reasonable doubt in that case,” she said. “So the case went the ways of the laws of this land, but now we need to go further and look at the human heart.”
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Amen.
 
“Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would very likely not wear a hoodie,” she said. “I can assure you he would not wear sagging pants.”
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“I can almost promise you Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would not wear a hoodie,” she further emphasized later in the interview.
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she doesn't sound so sure.... perhaps she shouldn't speak for others.
 
CrazyPaul said:
OIC, I understand that a warning shot can be fatal. So a good judgement is a must for gun owners who defend their home and family.
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Of course. If you shoot it in the ground, the ground can explode and cause an earthquake of epic proportions. You could awaken a dormant fault line that geologists have overlooked and haven't named yet. They would then call it "CrazyPaul's fault". And from then on, everything that resulted from you shooting in the ground would be your fault.

But seriously, it could ricochet off of a rock under the ground and travel at a velocity of 3,456 fps (which is pretty darn fast) and travel in the direction of your sweet old lady neighbor as she is cooking soup for her family of 17 .. causing permanent brain damage and an irreparable loss to a family of 17 who didn't get their soup.

think of the children!!!!

Just take Vice President Joe Biden's advice - if you want to keep someone away, shoot a shotgun through the door
In Delaware, where Biden and his wife call home, it’s a felony reckless endangerment violation to fire a weapon into the air, according to attorneys.
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http://www.theblaze.com/stories/201...-arrested-for-reckless-handling-of-a-firearm/
 
Jiro said:
she doesn't sound so sure.... perhaps she shouldn't speak for others.
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This may be a case where you are not fully grasping English(not to be rude)... Both of these phrases indicate a high level of confidence.
 
I wear hoodie so often during winter, or fall (in DC metro) so it doesn't look me like criminal.

Anyone say people wear hoodies are criminal, are ignorant, IMO.
 
TXgolfer said:
This may be a case where you are not fully grasping English(not to be rude)... Both of these phrases indicate a high level of confidence.
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but not 100% sure.

like I said - she shouldn't speak for others.... especially since she hardly knew him at all.
 
Reba said:
I also remember how the judge sent a deputy to fetch a juror who was late showing up. :eek3:

Judges are very serious about jury duty.
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What happen if car is broken and the area doesn't have public transportation?
 
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