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

[yourdaddy]

http://www.newnation.org/NNN-Black-on-White.html

[yourdaddy]

I want to move to the UK.

Get your ass over there then. And when the muslim fundamentalists start taking over that country and shooting and killing your kids like they did in France, you're gonna feel pretty damned impotent throwing a bag of chips at them.

I just bought an M-1 Garand to go along with my SKS and various other weapons I've owned most of my life. I have never used them in the commission of a crime or in anger. I have fed myself well using these weapons, and I will go down fighting with them if I have to.

[trish]

Hoodies don't kill people, Guns do.

[yourdaddy]

Hoodies with guns kill a lot of people. Luckily, it's mostly people in other hoodies right now.

[trish]

Guns and bullets are proximate causes of death in 100% of all gun murders.

[rameses2]

If Zimmerman DIDN'T have his gun, would he still have confronted someone he described to the Police dispatcher as "on drugs" and "up to no good"?

Maybe, if he hadn't had his gun and still confronted Tray, a 17 year old kid might still be alive to tell HIS side of the story...

[mealticket]

Zimmerman stalked the kid after the dispather said not to follow him...the kid defended himself when zimmerman confronted him so obviously zimmerman may have wounds, I dont think zimmerman can plea self defense if he was the agressor, you cant go chase a kid down and then claim self defense...he then shot and killed the kid, how he is not arrested at this point is beyond me...i know they say they may lack evidence...but that is the job of the prosecutor to find the evidence needed,...zimmerman killed a teenage boy who was only walking by his house after buying some food, just because the kid looked suspicious there was no need for violence or death...zimmerman should be put on trial for at the least manslaughter..

[Nicole Dupre]

Zimmerman stalked the kid after the dispather said not to follow him...the kid defended himself when zimmerman confronted him so obviously zimmerman may have wounds, I dont think zimmerman can plea self defense if he was the agressor, you cant go chase a kid down and then claim self defense...he then shot and killed the kid, how he is not arrested at this point is beyond me...i know they say they may lack evidence...but that is the job of the prosecutor to find the evidence needed,...zimmerman killed a teenage boy who was only walking by his house after buying some food, just because the kid looked suspicious there was no need for violence or death...zimmerman should be put on trial for at the least manslaughter..

The police fucked it all up. They should have tested Zimmerman for drugs and booze right away.

[ed_jaxon]

I did not want to weigh in but some of the idiocy here is astounding.

Pulling up a "what about this story" is the height of stupidity. We can all do it and it does nothing to help sort out the truth of the story. It's immature.

Stretching the truth beyond the facts is also specious as not one of us was there. Assigning motive is speculative.

What I have read is that:

Zimmerman was quoted on the 911 transcript saying some bigotted shit.

Zimmerman followed Trayvon despite being told not to by the dispatcher

Trayvon had been expelled from a zero tolerance school for having a trace amount of weed. (How some can stretch that to he was a drug dealer is beyond me)

Zimmerman was not charged

Some in the police department have come forward and said they wanted a manslaughter charge but were rebuffed

Sanford Chief of Police has stepped down temporarily

When I read all of this my question was how can a security guard have so much juice that he can be involved in a shooting and not be arrested?

I believe that the anger against Zimmerman is misplaced. Is he a bigot? I would say so based on his words. (Whether he is white blue or green is immaterial)

The deeper anger is at the system that allowed him to walk out uncharged. If he is charged I believe this is a non story as it happens pretty often.

One last fact, make of it what you will. Zimmerman's father was a judge.

[Nicole Dupre]

Florida is the most corrupt, bumbling, incompetent state in the union. It's a great place to get high and fuck your brains out, but that's about it.