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10247. Wombat - 4/13/2012 1:07:10 AM Arky,
Sharpton and Jackson jumped on the bandwagon. The protests had already begun and were taking root. 10248. arkymalarky - 4/13/2012 2:03:43 AM Actually the Martin family called Sharpton and requested his help. I don't know about Jackson. I haven't seen much of him. 10249. iiibbb - 4/13/2012 2:18:38 AM I think they're going to have a hard time proving 2nd degree murder... especially Florida's definition. Manslaughter seems the more provable charge.
At any rate. It is playing out much as I guessed. Zimmerman hung himself when he exited the vehicle, pursued someone alone, in the dark, in the rain.
I don't see how SYG defense is going to hold based on what facts have been shown to date.
It was a bad shoot. People on the firearm site I have frequented (more in the pass) have rallied a bit behind Zimmerman now but I think it's a vocal minority. There seem to be a bunch of people questioning Zim's actions because they recognize defending a bad shoot undermines their rights. 10250. iiibbb - 4/18/2012 6:20:44 PM Harold Fish
I wouldn't have done what Zimmerman did - he was a fool to get out of the car, follow a stranger with unknown motives, alone...
...but I could totally see myself doing something similar what Harold Fish did - Fish was far more justified in my opinion, was still convicted of 2nd degree murder, spent 3 years in jail and spent a butt-load to get out, and was eventually acquitted.
Z-man has a tough row to hoe. 10251. judithathome - 4/18/2012 7:29:25 PM Switch the roles in this and tell me that if it had been Trayvon with the gun and Zimmerman ending up dead...do you think there would have been an investigation?
Damned skippy there would have.
This police department had a history of letting white crime slide in regard to black victims. Just sayin'.
10252. iiibbb - 4/18/2012 7:40:24 PM The police bungling/racism regarding the case is independent of the technicalities of Zimmerman's foolishness.
I think the police dept was negligent if not racist.
I don't actually think Zimmerman is an outright racist - or in the heat of this moment was a racist - I happen to think he would have followed/shot any teen. He was just a gung-ho cop wanna-be.
10253. concerned - 4/18/2012 8:08:16 PM Notably absent in any recounting I have seen of this is where exactly the deadly altercation occurred. I suppose most of the drama would evaporate if it turned out that it happened right next to Zimmerman's van. 10254. vonKreedon - 4/18/2012 8:42:40 PM Martin was killed in a walkway between two sets of apartment buildings:
F marks the spot of the killing. This is from an aparently well reasoned piece on the missing 2:30 between the end of Zimmerman's 911 call and 911 calls from neighbors. 10255. vonKreedon - 4/18/2012 9:24:14 PM Despite having an aging portrait in his attic, Dick Clark is dead at 82. 10256. concerned - 4/18/2012 9:51:33 PM That's just my dad's age. Wasn't Dick Clark known as the world's oldest teenager about 25 year ago? 10257. OhioSTOPAS - 4/18/2012 9:57:10 PM I'd give Dick Clark's life a 100. You could dance to it. 10258. concerned - 4/25/2012 11:44:08 PM Well, the MSM can no longer call George Zimmerman a 'White Hispanic', now that it turns out he has some black ancestry.
Soooo...., what is the proper term for him, Mustefino-Hispanic, or Quintroon-Hispanic or perhaps, Hexadecaroon-Hispanic? 10259. arkymalarky - 4/26/2012 4:03:43 AM Murderer 10260. concerned - 4/26/2012 4:08:29 AM Why do I think you wouldn't have a chance to make the cut for Zimmerman's jury? 10261. judithathome - 5/9/2012 8:58:04 PM President Barack Obama just endorsed gay marriage. 10262. judithathome - 5/9/2012 11:16:09 PM I expected SOME sort of response to this history-making news..... 10263. arkymalarky - 5/9/2012 11:28:48 PM I just hope he wins reelection. We're in deep doodoo if he doesn't. I personally wish he'd waited. 10264. judithathome - 5/10/2012 2:16:01 AM He's been getting cremated by Republicans since Sunday...they certainly weren't going to let it go and in addition, the LGBT community was pushing back big time.
I agree those votes weren't going to Romney anyhow...they would have voted for him regardless...but the shit the Citizen's United folk were dumping on him was relentless. 10265. concerned - 5/13/2012 4:15:54 AM Re. 10262 -
I posted something in a lighter vein in politics. 0bama's 'I was agin' it before I was for it' - just show me the money' attitude is pretty hilarious, to tell the truth. 10266. concerned - 5/13/2012 4:20:11 AM Re. 10264 -
You must really value the melanin content of the most divisive president in US history more than anything else.
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