Uh, you couldn't figure that out? At a place that has a 3rd shift. Called an over nighter.
Trayvon Case Investigation
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Uh, you couldn't figure that out? At a place that has a 3rd shift. Called an over nighter.
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To arrest someone just because of protests is not legal. They have to have probable cause.
You sure do worry a lot about Black people rioting.
Blacks outnumber whites in jail because of the injustice like Angela Corey is correcting now that the Seminole Country prosecutor's office is being investigated for.
Kissing Black azzes to protect the public and their property? You are very confused about the power that Blacks have with the legal system.
Done talking to you. You have shown yourself to be nothing but a disgusting racist.
Why let the matter rest. Does it bother you that new evidence is coming out and the matter is being talked about. It needs to be talked about. It is the only way that injsutice like this will ever be addressed in this country.
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You done "talking" to me "so soon"??...What's-the-matter?....You can surely "DISH IT OUT"....but can't take it in reverse!....
As for all the Blacks in our jails...Duval County Jail...Ms Corey herself put so many of 'em there! Along with our Sheriff, Mr. Rutherford, whom I know personally....Waterboy!...Matter of fact, our Sheriff's brother was once married to one of my relatives....so I know that "Rutherford" family...
You keep quoting that "I'm Confused"....when in fact...I've been around longer than you have, "Kid"....
So...You call me a "Disgusting Racist"???...Just becuz I'm not "an ASS KISSER"?....I'm not kissing that Black Ass!...And that's for the Record, "SON"!
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Marissa Alexander, a 31-year-old mother of three, pleaded for her freedom as an inmate in the Duval County Jail in Jacksonville, Florida.
"This is my life I'm fighting for," she said while wiping away tears. She added, "If you do everything to get on the right side of the law, and it is a law that does not apply to you, where do you go from there?"
Alexander is referring to Florida's so-called 'stand your ground' law, a law that has come under scrutiny since the killing of Trayvon Martin. Unlike the Martin case, which involved one stranger killing another, Alexander's case involved her gun and her abusive husband.
On August 1, 2010, she said her husband, Rico Gray, read text messages on her phone that she had written to her ex-husband. She said Gray became enraged and accused her of being unfaithful. "That's when he strangled me. He put his hands around my neck," Alexander said.
She managed to escape his grip but instead of running out the front door of their home, she ran into the garage, she said, to get into her truck and drive away. Alexander said that in the confusion of the fight, she forgot to get her keys and the garage door wouldn't open, so she made a fateful decision. "I knew I had to protect myself," she said, adding, "I could not fight him. He was 100 pounds more than me. I grabbed my weapon at that point."
She went back inside the house and when Gray saw her pistol at her side, she said he threatened to kill her, so she raised the gun and fired one shot. "I believe when he threatened to kill me, that's what he was absolutely going to do. That's what he intended to do. Had I not discharged my weapon at that point, I would not be here."
Alexander, however, said she did not aim the gun at her husband. She said she fired into the air intending to scare him away and Gray quickly left the house with his two children. No one was hurt in the incident, but Alexander sits in jail facing a 20-year sentence on three charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Gray admitted to a history of physical abuse. In a previous incident, Alexander said he beat her so severely she ended up in the hospital and he ended up in jail. "He pushed me, choked me, pushed me so hard into the closet that I hit my head against the wall and passed out for a second," Alexander said.
In a deposition for the case against Alexander, Gray backed up much of his wife's story. "I told her if she ever cheated on me, I would kill her," he said during the proceeding led by a prosecutor for State Attorney Angela Corey's office and his wife's defense attorney.
"If my kids weren't there, I knew I probably would have tried to take the gun from her," Gray said, adding, "If my kids wouldn't have been there, I probably would have put my hand on her." When Alexander's defense attorney asked him what he meant by "put my hand on her," Gray replied, "probably hit her. I got five baby mammas and I put my hands on every last one of them except for one."
Alexander's attorney filed a motion for dismissal under the stand your ground law but at that proceeding her husband changed his story. Gray said he lied during his deposition after conspiring with his wife in an effort to protect her. At the hearing, he denied threatening to kill his wife, adding, "I begged and pleaded for my life when she had the gun." The motion was denied by the judge.
Alexander was offered a plea deal by Corey's office, but she opted to go to trial. A jury found Alexander guilty in 12 minutes. She is baffled why invoking the stand your ground law wasn't successful in her case.
"Other defendants have used it. What's so different about my situation that it doesn't apply to me?" she asked.
The local NAACP believes race may have played a role.
"There's a double standard with stand your ground," said Isaiah Rumlin, president of the Jacksonville Chapter of the NAACP. "The law is applied differently between African-Americans and whites who are involved in these types of cases," he added.
Rumlin cited two shooting cases in Florida with white shooters: One had a successful stand your ground defense and the other has yet to be charged with a crime. Online blogs are also raising the question of race. Last week, a spokeswoman for the Rev. Al Sharpton confirmed he, too, was looking into Alexander's story. When asked about race as a factor in her case, Alexander declined to comment.
CNN requested an interview with Rico Gray for this story. He agreed but later declined through a family friend, saying he was concerned that speaking publicly would put his life in danger. On Sunday, he resumed contact with CNN, offering an interview to "anyone who would like to pay." Monetary compensation for an interview is against CNN policy.
Through a spokeswoman, State Attorney Angela Corey declined to comment on the case until after the sentencing. Alexander's attorney, Kevin M. Cobbin, is fighting for a new trial and that hearing is tentatively scheduled for next week. If that motion is denied, Alexander will receive a mandatory 20-year sentence with no possibility of parole.
"Stand your ground" double standard in Florida? – Anderson Cooper 360 - CNN.com Blogs
Marissa Alexander, a 31-year-old mother of three, pleaded for her freedom as an inmate in the Duval County Jail in Jacksonville, Florida.
"This is my life I'm fighting for," she said while wiping away tears. She added, "If you do everything to get on the right side of the law, and it is a law that does not apply to you, where do you go from there?"
Alexander is referring to Florida's so-called 'stand your ground' law, a law that has come under scrutiny since the killing of Trayvon Martin. Unlike the Martin case, which involved one stranger killing another, Alexander's case involved her gun and her abusive husband.
On August 1, 2010, she said her husband, Rico Gray, read text messages on her phone that she had written to her ex-husband. She said Gray became enraged and accused her of being unfaithful. "That's when he strangled me. He put his hands around my neck," Alexander said.
She managed to escape his grip but instead of running out the front door of their home, she ran into the garage, she said, to get into her truck and drive away. Alexander said that in the confusion of the fight, she forgot to get her keys and the garage door wouldn't open, so she made a fateful decision. "I knew I had to protect myself," she said, adding, "I could not fight him. He was 100 pounds more than me. I grabbed my weapon at that point."
She went back inside the house and when Gray saw her pistol at her side, she said he threatened to kill her, so she raised the gun and fired one shot. "I believe when he threatened to kill me, that's what he was absolutely going to do. That's what he intended to do. Had I not discharged my weapon at that point, I would not be here."
Alexander, however, said she did not aim the gun at her husband. She said she fired into the air intending to scare him away and Gray quickly left the house with his two children. No one was hurt in the incident, but Alexander sits in jail facing a 20-year sentence on three charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Gray admitted to a history of physical abuse. In a previous incident, Alexander said he beat her so severely she ended up in the hospital and he ended up in jail. "He pushed me, choked me, pushed me so hard into the closet that I hit my head against the wall and passed out for a second," Alexander said.
In a deposition for the case against Alexander, Gray backed up much of his wife's story. "I told her if she ever cheated on me, I would kill her," he said during the proceeding led by a prosecutor for State Attorney Angela Corey's office and his wife's defense attorney.
"If my kids weren't there, I knew I probably would have tried to take the gun from her," Gray said, adding, "If my kids wouldn't have been there, I probably would have put my hand on her." When Alexander's defense attorney asked him what he meant by "put my hand on her," Gray replied, "probably hit her. I got five baby mammas and I put my hands on every last one of them except for one."
Alexander's attorney filed a motion for dismissal under the stand your ground law but at that proceeding her husband changed his story. Gray said he lied during his deposition after conspiring with his wife in an effort to protect her. At the hearing, he denied threatening to kill his wife, adding, "I begged and pleaded for my life when she had the gun." The motion was denied by the judge.
Alexander was offered a plea deal by Corey's office, but she opted to go to trial. A jury found Alexander guilty in 12 minutes. She is baffled why invoking the stand your ground law wasn't successful in her case.
"Other defendants have used it. What's so different about my situation that it doesn't apply to me?" she asked.
The local NAACP believes race may have played a role.
"There's a double standard with stand your ground," said Isaiah Rumlin, president of the Jacksonville Chapter of the NAACP. "The law is applied differently between African-Americans and whites who are involved in these types of cases," he added.
Rumlin cited two shooting cases in Florida with white shooters: One had a successful stand your ground defense and the other has yet to be charged with a crime. Online blogs are also raising the question of race. Last week, a spokeswoman for the Rev. Al Sharpton confirmed he, too, was looking into Alexander's story. When asked about race as a factor in her case, Alexander declined to comment.
CNN requested an interview with Rico Gray for this story. He agreed but later declined through a family friend, saying he was concerned that speaking publicly would put his life in danger. On Sunday, he resumed contact with CNN, offering an interview to "anyone who would like to pay." Monetary compensation for an interview is against CNN policy.
Through a spokeswoman, State Attorney Angela Corey declined to comment on the case until after the sentencing. Alexander's attorney, Kevin M. Cobbin, is fighting for a new trial and that hearing is tentatively scheduled for next week. If that motion is denied, Alexander will receive a mandatory 20-year sentence with no possibility of parole.
"Stand your ground" double standard in Florida? – Anderson Cooper 360 - CNN.com Blogs
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The author of Stand Your Ground:
It is the fact that Zimmerman ignored the 911 operator's advice not to follow Martin that former Sen. Peaden says disqualifies him from claiming self-defense under the law.
"The guy lost his defense right then," Peaden told the Miami Herald. "When he said 'I'm following him,' he lost his defense."
Rep. Dennis Baxley, Peaden's co-sponsor in the Florida House, agrees with his former colleague, telling the newspaper that the law does not license neighborhood watch or others who feel "like they have the authority to pursue and confront people. That is aggravating an incident right there."
Author of "stand your ground" law: George Zimmerman should probably be arrested for killing Trayvon Martin - Crimesider - CBS News
It is the fact that Zimmerman ignored the 911 operator's advice not to follow Martin that former Sen. Peaden says disqualifies him from claiming self-defense under the law.
"The guy lost his defense right then," Peaden told the Miami Herald. "When he said 'I'm following him,' he lost his defense."
Rep. Dennis Baxley, Peaden's co-sponsor in the Florida House, agrees with his former colleague, telling the newspaper that the law does not license neighborhood watch or others who feel "like they have the authority to pursue and confront people. That is aggravating an incident right there."
Author of "stand your ground" law: George Zimmerman should probably be arrested for killing Trayvon Martin - Crimesider - CBS News
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Jails have more African Americans than whites, because more African American males commit violent crimes than whites. That has been a statistical FACT that even the most racist NAACP advocate cannot deny.
There comes a time when the blaming on others has to stop and a community has to own up and take control OF THEIR OWN PROBLEMS.
The culture of violence needs to stop being glorified.
It seems to really bother YOU.
I have a social conscience. Looks like some people don't.
But bother me that new stuff is coming out like Zimmerman lying about being indigent? No, that doesn't bother me. Just goes to show his character and makes it look much worse for him. Makes the prosecutor's job that much easier.
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I have a social conscience. Looks like some people don't.
But bother me that new stuff is coming out like Zimmerman lying about being indigent? No, that doesn't bother me. Just goes to show his character and makes it look much worse for him. Makes the prosecutor's job that much easier.
You are an absolute idiot. You are starting to reek of dog.
It has already been explained numerous times and in every single angle how that is a myth - yet you continue to adhere to your lies.
That is a false statement and statistics do not show that at all. Just more of your confusion.
If you want the culture of violence to stop being glorified, stop jumping to the defense of a man that shot an unarmed teen for walking home and doing nothing wrong. That is about as violent as it gets. You are the one glorifying the violence.
And another example.
And you wonder why social problems continue on and on and on. Because of the inability to honestly discuss them, like you have just demonstrated.
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Bull crap.
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And another example.
And you wonder why social problems continue on and on and on. Because of the inability to honestly discuss them, like you have just demonstrated.
They continue when people like you present BS as if it is a fact.
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This:
Culture of violence | Nealz Nuze | www.boortz.com
and this:
Another White Victim Of The Black Culture Of Violence « THE ROYCROFT REPORT
and this:
Young Jeezy Concert Shuts Down After Gunfire, Shot Victim In Serious Condition | SOHH.COM
and this:
Tyga Associate Honey Cocaine Performed The Day After Getting Shot - Music, Celebrity, Artist News | MTV
(seriously, honey cocaine, who the hell names themselves that if not glorifying drugs?)
and this:
How Hip-Hop Holds Blacks Back by John H. McWhorter, City Journal Summer 2003
And .... when I was in College, every student was made to read articles written by black authors about how to rid violence in their own communities.
The culture of violence cannot be denied when it is so glaringly obvious.
Culture of violence | Nealz Nuze | www.boortz.com
and this:
Another White Victim Of The Black Culture Of Violence « THE ROYCROFT REPORT
and this:
Young Jeezy Concert Shuts Down After Gunfire, Shot Victim In Serious Condition | SOHH.COM
and this:
Tyga Associate Honey Cocaine Performed The Day After Getting Shot - Music, Celebrity, Artist News | MTV
(seriously, honey cocaine, who the hell names themselves that if not glorifying drugs?)
and this:
How Hip-Hop Holds Blacks Back by John H. McWhorter, City Journal Summer 2003
And .... when I was in College, every student was made to read articles written by black authors about how to rid violence in their own communities.
The culture of violence cannot be denied when it is so glaringly obvious.
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This case stinks. Corey should not have charged Alexander in the first place. It also makes me wonder what was wrong with the jurors. Guilty in 12 minutes?! I've been on juries, and 12 minutes is barely enough time to get situated in the jury room, take care of housekeeping rules, and pass out the ballots. That's a travesty that they could come to a decision that fast.
I believe this poor woman did not get fair treatment.
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