(np) Trayvon Williams tragedy

[David Morris]

It seems that in Florida it's legal to kill someone as long as you say
you were afraid for your life.

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 7:34 AM, Michael Bailey
<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> about 10 miles from where I live, the neighborhood watch captain shot
> this kid, it's becoming a cause celebre...
>
> http://www.floridatoday.com/viewart/20120321/NEWS01/303210016/Lawyer-Before-death-Trayvon-Martin-told-girlfriend-he-being-followed?odyssey=mod%7cnewswell%7ctext%7cnews0305%7cp
>
> nightmarish thing, story developing...
>
> i can almost see it now, details slowly coming out, by most accounts
> the shooter was a pretty good guy, but there'd been robberies
> recently, the kid apparently ducking into a building not where he
> lived to get out of the rain for a minute, then walking towards
> home...
>
> exceeding his remit by leaving his secure vantage (cops were on the
> way), carrying a licensed 9, the guy thinks he'll stop the crime wave,
> accosts the kid, "i'm the neighborhood watch", probably lays hands on
> him, kid secure in his innocence biffs him a good one...kapow
>
> they made a couple mall cop movies recently, Paul Blart was pretty
> good, I keep meaning to watch the other one...
>
> with great power comes great responsibility, I hope that comes out in
> the inevitable lengthy followups
>
> actually, with Florida's "stand your ground law" (really freakn' bad
> legislation, y'ask me...if you kill somebody even with good reason
> there needs to be some accountability), one hopes the followups are
> appropriately lengthy because this cannot stand, as the Dude would say
>
> we need Al Sharpton down here, Jesse Jackson, Jimmy Carter, even
> Clinton I guess...somebody...