Yawn.
You must have been listening to CNN tonight.
We had a guy with this mentality in my CHL class. Charles Bronson fantasies to the nth degree. They do exist.
I read that Zimmerman has a concealed carry permit...patiently waiting for the anti-gun crowd to use this one isolated incident for political gain.
they were fighting, on the ground with the youth on top. Zimmerman had a head would and bleeding from the nose. Was there a struggle for the gun? Was zimmerman in fear of further severe head injury? etc etc
I am wondering how long it will take for Holder/Obama to make this into a national political issue
We’re hearing the 9-1-1 calls on the Orlando stations with every news broadcast. If I was sitting on a jury he’d be toast. This guy is gonna need a helluva lawyer to get out of this one. And that neighborhood watch is going to need a serious overhaul.
It gets better. The boy was tested for drugs and alcohol - negative. Mr. Zimmerman was not tested.
I’m all for self defense, but this Zimmerman sounds like he was trigger happy. He deliberately disregarded the 9-11 operator and started a confrontation with a teenager just because he was wearing a hoodie and walking in the rain. The victim was buying candy. I didn’t realize that was a crime.
Liberals have cried racism and law enforcement misconduct when it didn’t apply for so long, it’s hard to tell the false from the true at first. But those thinigs still do happen and this appears to be one of those cases.
Sounds like the black kid was chased down and shot after a struggle. The white dude IMO committed murder or at least manslaughter.
But this story is still young so more info may come out to help Zimmerman. Cant imagine what it could be though.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2860339/posts
The AP is also pushing this angle. Does anyone doubt that AP will attempt to put the worst spin they can on a CCW holder's actions?
I do not know exactly what happened, but the police have repeatedly said that the physical evidence has been consistent with the self defense account that Zimmerman gave.
To come to another conclusion requires a significant conspiracy theory. Consider that the police are under intense pressure to be politically correct.
About 30 years ago I was a twitch away from having my head blown off by a cop.
Visiting my parents in SW Colorado and walked over to the nearby 7-11. There had been a mass escape from the NM penitentiary and I closely matched the description (white, brown hair, average height, stocky build, T-shirt, jeans) of one of the suspects who had murdered a convenience store clerk earlier that day about 50 miles away. Of course, so did probably at least a million men in the country.
I had a paperback book making a bulge in my hip pocket. I was standing looking at the magazines and the poor girl behind the counter thought the bulge was a gun and I was waiting for the others in the store to leave so I could rob and kill her.
The bell on the door rang as new customers entered, but I wasn’t paying attention. Suddenly I had something cold against my neck (shotgun barrel) and a couple of cops grabbed me. Had I jumped or twitched I would have been dead.
Nobody’s fault, the (by then hysterical) clerk had every reason to believe I was the guy, the cops did what they should have. I wasn’t doing anything wrong at all but still could have wound up dead on the floor.
One reason such confrontations should be left to those with training. They don’t always do it right, but they’re more likely to do so than random citizens, especially those with Rambo or Death Wish type fantasy lives.
This article is commie crap.
Next!
It’s not what you know, it’s what a jury is compelled to believe. As far as I know, a neighborhood watch captain is not commissioned to detain someone or interrogate them. His job is to report the person to the police and let them handle it.
Was it self-defense? Yes, in that he feared for his life. But, the prosecution is going to have a field day pointing out that he set the event into motion by following someone who had not, to that point, done anything wrong.
A CCW holder may not start or escalate a situation.