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

[south ov da border]

I appreciate the direction that this thread has taken...

[south ov da border]

"...they say it takes 5 thousand to educate, 30 thousand to incarcerate..."

This quote shows where the focus of the people who run this country is. It is all a big kickback scheme. Laws are slanted to incarcerate people for things that silly and downright unfair. And it's a kickback scheme to get these private facilities built and filled, while at the same time more laws and things are being created to put people in jails. And the whole concept of student loans is crazy because they keep raising tuition while eliminating jobs ensuring that these loans can't be paid back. 40 years ago you could have a job out of high school, make it a career and live comfortably if you wanted to. Now you can have a college degree and be stuck at minimum wage. It's crazy.

[south ov da border]

and you can't discharge a student loan by claiming bankruptcy. It's all a scam...

[runningdownthatdream]

"...they say it takes 5 thousand to educate, 30 thousand to incarcerate..."

This quote shows where the focus of the people who run this country is. It is all a big kickback scheme. Laws are slanted to incarcerate people for things that silly and downright unfair. And it's a kickback scheme to get these private facilities built and filled, while at the same time more laws and things are being created to put people in jails. And the whole concept of student loans is crazy because they keep raising tuition while eliminating jobs ensuring that these loans can't be paid back. 40 years ago you could have a job out of high school, make it a career and live comfortably if you wanted to. Now you can have a college degree and be stuck at minimum wage. It's crazy.

I came across this a few days ago:

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/punis...ion-detention/

[natina]

George Zimmerman, 28, could be released on bond but getting the money has proved difficult for his family. NBC’s Kerry Sanders reports


from florida tonight, an update in the trayvon martin case, and the man accused of murdering him. carey sanders is in sanford, florida, with the latest. carey?
>> reporter: good evening, lester. george zimmerman remains in jail here tonight. his lawyer says that the 28-year-old's family has found it more complicated to secure the $150,000 bond than they first anticipated. he still could get out of jail tonight, or his lawyer says as late as wednesday. when he gets out, it's expected he will go into hiding. then he's going to have to come right back here at the end of next month for his arraignment. according to his attorney, he is going to be back for his arraignment, then go back into hiding. the process, they believe, for a trial could be more than a year away. while he is out, they anticipate the sheriff will track his every moment with an ankle monitor that is hooked up to a gps, so they know where he is at every moment. trayvon martin's family said that they oppose the bond, but they respect the system. the system that gave a bond to george zimmerman who is not convicted of a crime. lester?

http://video.msnbc.msn.com/nightly-n...6215/#47136215

[mildcigar_2001]

To the twit that started this entire thread, both you and the media jumped on the white guy shoots the 17 year old because he was black bandwagon.

Please look at the cases background (please note from Reuters not Fox News):

George Zimmerman: Prelude to a shooting:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...83O18H20120425

Puts things in a little different light, doesn't it. Why it matters is that this entire ginned up racial motive is ending up in real racial violence, and I won't be surpised if we won't have a repeat of the LA riots (perhaps in Miami) before this thing is done with.

[natina]

that kid TRAVON MARTIN WAS NOT DOING ANYTHING WRONG or illegal and he had a hoodie on cause it was raining

Zimmerman raised more than $200,000 through his website....
http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/2...00-in-website/

[giovanni_hotel]

To the twit that started this entire thread, both you and the media jumped on the white guy shoots the 17 year old because he was black bandwagon.

Please look at the cases background (please note from Reuters not Fox News):

George Zimmerman: Prelude to a shooting:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...83O18H20120425

Puts things in a little different light, doesn't it. Why it matters is that this entire ginned up racial motive is ending up in real racial violence, and I won't be surpised if we won't have a repeat of the LA riots (perhaps in Miami) before this thing is done with.

Nice puff piece by a friend of the family,( notice how it never addresses ANY of Zimmerman's arrests), but not of that crap has anything to do with Trayvon Martin.

Zimmerman chased after this kid. On the 911 call, Zimmerman even said, 'he's running.'

I don't give two shits about this asshole. And I hope you donated your weekly paycheck cigar to this pussy's legal defense fund.
When you shoot an unarmed teen who's walking back to his father's condo, you don't get the benefit of the doubt for being stupid.

There's plenty of idiots wasting away in prison, which is where Zimmerman belongs.

When you decide to walk around with a loaded firearm, you take responsibility for your actions when that firearm is unholstered.

[trish]

To the racist who calls people twits, the OP and others are outraged that a armed, self-appointed neighborhood vigilante can stalk (against police instructions), shoot a unarmed boy dead and not be arrested, not have his gun confiscated, nor face a judge nor a jury simply because the perp, without corroborative evidence, says it was self-defense. Stand your ground laws are fucked up and that's story enough itself. But you're right, it's not the whole story because the obvious racism underlying Zimmerman's conception of suspicious behavior in the context of a gated neighborhood is the direct cause of this outrageous vigilante shooting.

We don't need to see Zimmerman found guilty, but if he doesn't at least appear before a judge and a jury, then we don't live in a land of laws that apply equally to everyone.

[Cecil Rhodes]

Enough already ....... where is Sammi ? I wanna flirt some more . I can even go back to tinychat and make Adriana fall out of her chair laughing .