Trayvon Martin: 'Shoot first' law under scrutiny

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catharina said:
I grew up in Chicago and lived there more than 40 yrs of my adult life.
What alarms me are racist Catholics as Cardinal George (Chicago)
has so clearly defined them.

Scared? “Be not afraid, I go before you always.”
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I’ve been on the streets in law enforcement for 17 years, I pray, believe me. Careful with your accusations." For by the same measure you judge…
 
johnnyjones said:
You don’t know that he played Punisher. Thats an assertion by some on this forum and black “leaders”. A guy who has black friends that diligently defend him and mentors a black family doesn’t fit into the big equalizer catagory.
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Just wanna stoke up the fires here.

Turns out Zimmerman is a registered - Democrat -.

I like this quote the best.

“Guns don’t kill people, Democrats do”.
 
Why does the media use Trayvon Martin’s first name continually and George Zimmermans last name continually. Looks like race baiting to me.
 
johnnyjones said:
I’ve been on the streets in law enforcement for 17 years, I pray, believe me. Careful with your accusations." For by the same measure you judge…
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No offense, but I’d rather listen to the Cardinal than to you.
As for accusations? I’ve accused NO ONE. I quoted a Cardinal of the Church.
 
Please explain the “disregard” you speak of. According to the 911 call he complied with the dispacher’s suggestion in 2 seconds.
 
MugenOne said:
Why does the media use Trayvon Martin’s first name continually and George Zimmermans last name continually. Looks like race baiting to me.
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Probably because one is a child and the other is an adult.
 
maryjk said:
I thought we agreed that the millions of people didn’t say they wanted an investigation, but that they wanted an arrest.

That is not the same thing.
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We agreed regarding my mistake of typing “investigate” vs. arrest of a specific poll.

I am sure, however, that millions do want this case investigated. If 72% want the guy actually arrested wouldn’t you think that at least that many would want the case investigated which would be a less assertive action than to actually arrest Zimmerman?
 
MugenOne said:
The NY Times calls Zimmerman “white Hispanic.” Is there such a thing?
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It’s been explained already.
US Census allows for choices: ethnicity,
then if desired for race - white, black, asian, other, etc…
 
SamH said:
Please explain the “disregard” you speak of. According to the 911 call he complied with the dispacher’s suggestion in 2 seconds.
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Not accurate. He said “okay” two seconds later. We have not tracking of whether he complied our not. I have listened to the tape and do not think he did comply. You may disagree, but neither of us know.
 
pnewton said:
Not accurate. He said “okay” two seconds later. We have not tracking of whether he complied our not. I have listened to the tape and do not think he did comply. You may disagree, but neither of us know.
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So the witnesses that saw him returning to his truck are lying?
 
While working on a column on the Trayvon Martin story (it’ll be on NRO in the morning), a related thought occurred to me. If you go by Charles M. Blow of the New York Times, or Donna Britt in her NPR interview, or much of the blather on MSNBC, you’ll get the impression that the foremost problem facing young black men in America is violent white racism. It is the “the burden of black boys in America,” according to Blow. I think this is unsupportable as a statistical matter alone. The notion that the chief problem facing young black men is violence — or even non-violent prejudice — from whites is simply hard to support given the numbers Heather Mac Donald runs through here. Or consider the fact that the life expectancy for black men in prison is higher than the life expectancy for black men outside of prison. That’s messed up.
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But what if we extend Charles Murray’s argument in Coming Apart to blacks in the top 2% — like Blow, Britt and most of the other black commentators out there. It seems plausible that at least some of these people are as removed from lower class black America as many white commentators are from lower class white America. In that context, I could see how the Trayvon Martin story would hit closer to home than the vastly more numerous tragedies involving black-on-black homicide. The richest and most successful African-Americans spend a lot more time in elite “white” America than they do in Compton or East St. Louis. And, my hunch is, they’re more understandably more worried about white men with guns than they are about guns in their kids’ private schools. I also think it’s a lot easier for rich black liberals to have an “honest conversation” about white racism than it is for them to engage in an honest conversation about the other problems facing black America that have little to nothing to do with white racism.
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I don’t think this explains everything, not even close. But I do think it might be one of the factors at work.
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nationalreview.com/corner/294532/there-black-upper-class-bubble-jonah-goldberg
 
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