Stand Your Ground?

[McBain]

http://www.smh.com.au/world/trayvon-martin-a-killing-too-far-20120323-1vnl7.html

It took three weeks, outrage and the mobilisation of thousands of people to make that happen. Apparently the facts alone did not warrant further inquiry.

Wow.

 

[BigBlueBalls]

http://www.smh.com.au/world/trayvon-martin-a-killing-too-far-20120323-1vnl7.html



Wow.

Wasn't televised.
Therefore the impact is less.
Think Rodney King.
Think how the Menezez footage is sat in a vault allegedly lost.

 

[BigBlueBalls]

Zimmerman weighs 113kg and had a 9mm handgun; Martin weighed 63kg and had a packet of Skittles and a can of iced tea.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/trayvon-martin-a-killing-too-far-20120323-1vnl7.html#ixzz1ptLfpibl

Must have been schooled in Britain (the scum, not the victim)

 

[McBain]

Wasn't televised.
Therefore the impact is less.
Think Rodney King.
Think how the Menezez footage is sat in a vault allegedly lost.

It's fundamentally different because it's accepted here that killing is okay. King was a bashing. Menezes was suspected of terrorism.

 

[BigBlueBalls]

It's fundamentally different because it's accepted here that killing is okay. King was a bashing. Menezes was suspected of terrorism.

Well his family ought thank their lucky stars he wasn't an Al Quaeda suspect (whatever that means) (Dusky or turban).

 

[McBain]

Well his family ought thank their lucky stars he wasn't an Al Quaeda suspect (whatever that means) (Dusky or turban).

He's dead mate, I doubt it matters.

 

[DanEFC92]

Can't believe some people believe him to be innocent.

 

[DanEFC92]

http://abcnews.go.com/US/george-zim...ted-prosecutor/story?id=19470272#.UciqKjSkquw

 

[DanEFC92]

http://www.alternet.org/stand-your-ground-double-standard

 

[McBain]

http://www.alternet.org/stand-your-ground-double-standard

That is seriously effed up. I would never ever live in America and I'm white!

 

[Philw]

Eight kids under the age of 19 are killed by guns in America every day. While researching the stories of those who fell one November day in 2006 I ran across the story of Brandon Moore. Brandon was 16 when he was shot in the back in the middle of the afternoon by an off-duty cop moonlighting as a security guard in Detroit. The guard had previously shot a man dead during a neighbourhood fracas, shot his wife (though not fatally) in a domestic dispute and had been involved in a fatal hit-and-run car accident while under the influence of alcohol. Brandon's death was dismissed in the city's two main newspapers in less than 200 words. It was ruled to be justifiable homicide. A year later the guard was still in the police force.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/trayvon-martin-a-killing-too-far-20120323-1vnl7.html#ixzz2YwWhzqFQ
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This is also from that first article. I would love to live in America some day, but things like this are pretty scary. I'm sure there's things like this (tho I would hope not to that level) going on here aswell...

 

[Philw]

http://www.alternet.org/stand-your-ground-double-standard

[h=1]Black Woman Gets 20 Years for Firing Shot at Wall; White Man Gets 0 Years for Shooting Man in the Back 3 Times, Killing Him[/h]

Think this story is even worse.

 

[Azzurri]

This is also from that first article. I would love to live in America some day, but things like this are pretty scary. I'm sure there's things like this (tho I would hope not to that level) going on here aswell...

*awaits TX Bill

 

[bluemangroup]

*awaits TX Bill

He will just get all huffy about how it's his right to protect his family and how he can't go hunting without a machine gun that'd worry aircraft.

 

[Allezfan]

America's always struck me as a society with a much larger racism problem than the UK, but that's mostly due to the difference in the sizes of the non white population due to their history. Within about ten years white americans will be a minority, the latest election has already shown that winning the white male vote isn't enough anymore.

This sort of reactionary blow-back to that, is inevitable.