(np) Trayvon Williams tragedy

[bandwraith at aol.com]

Something like that. One of the problems
with the Law of the Excluded Middle is,
is with the very first term, and the over-
confidence users of TLEM have in that
pitiless "All."


-----Original Message-----
From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
To: bandwraith <bandwraith at aol.com>
Cc: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wed, Mar 21, 2012 10:50 am
Subject: Re: (np) Trayvon Williams tragedy


The indeterminancy on the shooter's part:  "What's this black kid
doing in this neighborhood?"

The indeterminancy on the dead kid's part: "Why is this scary guy 
chasing me?"

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http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/nra-dreams-come-true.html

So it turns out that Treyvan Martin was talking to a friend while
being followed by the neighborhood watch guy:

The pair's phone logs, obtained by ABC News, show they spoke just five
minutes before police responded to reports of a shooting at the gated
community in Sanford, Fla.

Recounting her conversation with Martin, the teen girl said, "He said
this man was watching him, so he put his hoodie on. He said he lost
the man."

"I asked Trayvon to run, and he said he was going to walk fast. I told
him to run but he said he was not going to run," she said.

After a few minutes, the girl said, Martin thought he was safe. But
eventually the man appeared again.

"Trayvon said, 'What are you following me for?'" the girl said. "And
the man said, 'What are you doing here?' Next thing I hear is somebody
pushing, and somebody pushed Trayvon because the [phone’s\] headset
just fell."

The line went dead, the girl said.

"I called him again and he didn't answer the phone," she said.

So it would seem that the teen-ager was the one who was afraid. And
rightly so as it turns out.


On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 9:17 AM,  <bandwraith at aol.com> wrote:
> Well, even trained police have a difficult
> time with indeterminancy, and this case
> sounds plenty indeterminate, with res-
> pect to the roles of those involved.