17yr old black kid shot and killed for walking in white suburbia?

[trish]

So in some cases we're to pay no mind to the police, and other orders should be adhered to? Interesting dichotomy.

Exactly. Try reading Civil Disobedience by Thoreau.

[yourdaddy]

Here is an example of where jessie jackson should be spending his time. Black on Black crime is so rampant, but the media won't dare cover it. This is pitiful: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/03/26...est=latestnews

[mildcigar_2001]

Stop violence by arming everyone? You're a moron.

An armed society is a polite society.

Right now in the UK only the criminals are armed. What I am suggesting is arming the law abiding citizens.

[mildcigar_2001]

Facts be damned now, If Zimmerman doesn't do hard time, there will be riots in the streets.

Thanks to Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.

I really don't understand why this case merits more attention than the horrible black on black violence that happens every day. It would be of more benefit to the black community to have the race hustlers focus on that intractable problem.

[onmyknees]

Exactly. Try reading Civil Disobedience by Thoreau.

Try reading it? Try again.

You sure you read it? The thesis was that citizens should be governed less.....doesn't sound like you at all ! lol

You seem to want to litigate this before there's even an arrest.
Back off...that's the DA's job. We get that you're anti gun, anti stand your ground laws, and in certain instances...anti cop...but none of that is relevent.
The point was you can't pick and choose what police orders to obey....that's inconsistent and you don't get to arbitrate that without first paying the consequences...And weren't you the one whining about police brutality after they were pepper sprayed...when they were told that was exactly what was going to happen if they didn't obey the order to leave?

[giovanni_hotel]

Are you really equating students disobeying a police order to disperse resulting in being aggressively and excessively pepper sprayed, to this Zimmerman psycho who was told by a police dispatcher NOT TO FOLLOW a random Black male ( who was not committing any crime except for being Black), whose decision not to comply directly resulted in the DEATH of an innocent kid??

As citizens we ALL have the right to choose whether or not obey civil law.
If one is protesting what they perceive to be an unjust law, they have the right and responsibility to disobey a police order, as long as they aren't at risk for bodily harm to themselves or others.

George Zimmerman wasn't engaged in any act of civil disobedience; he chose to ignore the request from the 911 operator not to pursue Trayvon because he was too busy playing fantasy cop.

Mildcigar, most victims of violent crime were assaulted by someone of the same racial/ethnic background. Why is Black on Black crime so dear to your heart??

[Nicole Dupre]

The dumb white trash guys can't help letting everyone know exactly who they are on a thread like this. lol

[robertlouis]

An armed society is a polite society.

Right now in the UK only the criminals are armed. What I am suggesting is arming the law abiding citizens.

Explain that one for a start, please.

The UK in its essentially unarmed state has 2% of the gun crime rate of the US.

I was right first time around. You're a moron.

[buttslinger]

I can't believe Conservative Media is choosing this battle to fight.

[trish]

You seem to want to litigate this before there's even an arrest.

Me?? Where? I think my comments were mainly directed at the "stand your ground" laws, rather than at Zimmerman. Talk about having a reading comprehension problem. Perhaps you should listen to others before you go on broadcast.