17 year old kid shot dead by Neighborhood Watch "Captain"

[hornadylnl]

Despite his pic making his ethnicity very apparent? oy

I can show you guys who look Hispanic and aren't. I'm not one that pays much attention to a person's ethnicity.

 

[Shelly1582]

Regarding lesser charge thing; Does no one remember Casey Anthony? She walked because the prosecution asked for charges the jury did not feel they could apply. If the jury is offered 2nd degree alone, I'm pretty sure Z is walking.

 

[griffin]

Regarding lesser charge thing; Does no one remember Casey Anthony? She walked because the prosecution asked for charges the jury did not feel they could apply. If the jury is offered 2nd degree alone, I'm pretty sure Z is walking.

https://www.indianagunowners.com/fo...ighborhood_watch_captain-205.html#post2801825

 

[IndyDave1776]

Can you imagine the nerve of the media to assume that someone with the last name of Zimmerman was white and not Hispanic?

The way I was taught in school, journalism revolves around answering the following questions: Who, what, when, where, why, and how. Assumptions don't figure into the process.

I am not going to try arguing that assumptions are not standard fare, but at least that isn't according to the book, therefore the media are not excused for an error in the process of doing something they should not have been doing in the first place. Besides, if we know it there was sufficient information available for them to have known it before we did.

 

[Fargo]

Regarding lesser charge thing; Does no one remember Casey Anthony? She walked because the prosecution asked for charges the jury did not feel they could apply. If the jury is offered 2nd degree alone, I'm pretty sure Z is walking.

In Casey Anthony, the prosecution charged I believe 4 mutually contradictory counts, thereby indicating the jury that the prosecution didn't even have a real idea of what had happened.

IMO, that in many ways contributed to the not guilty. If jurors realize that the prosecution doesn't even claim to know what happened, they have reasonable doubt on platter.

Best,

Joe

 

[Roadie]

I can show you guys who look Hispanic and aren't. I'm not one that pays much attention to a person's ethnicity.

Maybe YOU arent, but my point was that the media DOES pay attention to ethnicity..

 

[Shelly1582]

In Casey Anthony, the prosecution charged I believe 4 mutually contradictory counts, thereby indicating the jury that the prosecution didn't even have a real idea of what had happened.

IMO, that in many ways contributed to the not guilty. If jurors realize that the prosecution doesn't even claim to know what happened, they have reasonable doubt on platter.

Best,

Joe

Well, hopefully watching this trial won't make me want to break my television!

 

[Fargo]

Well, hopefully watching this trial won't make me want to break my television!

Oh, if this makes it to trial, I would count on it being surrounded by a BS media circus with relatively little care for responsibility, truth or justice, just as the coverage of the investigation has been.

Best,

Joe

 

[hornadylnl]

Maybe YOU arent, but my point was that the media DOES pay attention to ethnicity..

The fact that there are those who believe everything they hear says more about those people than the media.

 

[jedi]

So can we start taking bets or call a Vegas bookie on the odds that Z will walk?


From everything I have read I say the law was on his side on this one. Now what is 2nd degree murder I'm not sure "legal speak" but I wish him luck and hope he gets some good attys just like Casey Anthony.

On the bright side since this will now go to trial and that will take a while the riots once happen anytime soon. & by the time the trial is done and over with the will be too busy with something else.

-Jedi

 

[Glock19]

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2...ree-murder-charge-in-trayvon-martin-case?lite

We will see... prepare for riots if he gets proven innocent.... if he is guilty you should also prepare for riots....

 

[Fargo]

dupe

 

[strahd71]

U.S. News - George Zimmerman in custody, will plead not guilty to second-degree murder in Trayvon Martin case

We will see... prepare for riots if he gets proven innocent.... if he is guilty you should also prepare for riots....

pretty much the folks who are in an uproar over this are usually the type who dont need much reason to riot

jake

 

[printcraft]

pretty much the folks who are in an uproar over this are usually the type who dont need much reason to riot

jake

I probably won't riot either way....... just sayin'.

 

[Bunnykid68]

So can we start taking bets or call a Vegas bookie on the odds that Z will walk?


From everything I have read I say the law was on his side on this one. Now what is 2nd degree murder I'm not sure "legal speak" but I wish him luck and hope he gets some good attys just like Casey Anthony.

On the bright side since this will now go to trial and that will take a while the riots once happen anytime soon. & by the time the trial is done and over with the will be too busy with something else.

-Jedi

They will not be to busy for this I can assure you

 

[IndyDave1776]

pretty much the folks who are in an uproar over this are usually the type who dont need much reason to riot

jake

Absolutely! Those people would riot because it's Tuesday and they are wearing mismatched socks. Throw in something incendiary like a manufactured racial incident with the Jacksons and Sharptons of the world cheerleading and a riot is a foregone conclusion.

 

[Expat]

I probably won't riot either way....... just sayin'.

You law abiders make me sick

 

[printcraft]

They will not be to busy for this I can assure you

Especially if they push the trial closer to November...................

Let's get those votes. "Hey everybody, vote for me, remember my son treyvon!"


Oops.... did I let the panther out of the bag?

 

[IndyDave1776]

I probably won't riot either way....... just sayin'.

Same here, although they will be well advised to keep their rioting to themselves where I am concerned.

 

[1911 DeadHead]

So can we start taking bets or call a Vegas bookie on the odds that Z will walk?


From everything I have read I say the law was on his side on this one. Now what is 2nd degree murder I'm not sure "legal speak" but I wish him luck and hope he gets some good attys just like Casey Anthony.

On the bright side since this will now go to trial and that will take a while the riots once happen anytime soon. & by the time the trial is done and over with the will be too busy with something else.

-Jedi

I agree. The case will lose steam and the media will get distracted.