I read the Mother Jones article and all ther comments there (took hours) and it does seem as if this child was hunted down and shot dead for the simple reason of "walking whilst black".
(3) A person who is not engaged in an unlawful activity and who is attacked in any other place where he or she has a right to be has no duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground and meet force with force, including deadly force if he or she reasonably believes it is necessary to do so to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another or to prevent the commission of a forcible felony.
Under that definition, Trayvon would have been perfectly entitled to stand his ground, not the idiot who was chasing him. The "stand your ground" defence isn't going to apply to Zimmerman give that he was pursuing Trayvon and, according to Zimmerman's own words, preserved on the 911 recording, Trayvon was running away.
You have a minor being tailed by a stranger in an SUV. If it was my kid, I'd want him to run home, get outta there. Right from the start, the only person with reason to be scared was Trayvon. I hope they throw the book at Zimmerman. It's horrifying that he hasn't even been arrested.
Edited by Trixie, : The thread must have gone into summation mode while I was writing this post cos I only got the wee message when I hit the "Submit" button.
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