Posted on 04/11/2012 10:18:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
ALBANY - NAACP President Benjamin Jealous told an Albany Law School lecture hall on Wednesday afternoon the arrest of George Zimmerman is a "great moment for our country" even though it is long over due.
"People of Sanford (Florida) have been tortured," Jealous says, "Our country has been torn apart just waiting for the man to simply be arrested."
On that point, you'll find no disagreement from Alice Green of the Center for Law and Justice.
"It should have happened a long time ago," Green insists. "There was certainly always probable cause to arrest him and people are outraged because they understand that."
The problem for Albany Law School Professor Laurie Shanks is the perception that Zimmerman was treated differently then if the situation were reversed.
"The racial part of this is, the belief that most of us who have been working in the criminal justice system have seen, that if a black man had shot an unarmed white man, he would be arrested," Shanks said.
"If it takes this long to get an arrest, something is wrong with the entire department," opined Albany Law School Professor Anthony Paul Farley.
Farley thinks the real crime was committed by Sanford Police. He believes the case was bungled from the onset and that detectives need to be arrested.
"One fears for any black person in Sanford, Florida," he says. "One fears for anybody who knows a black person in Sanford, Florida. One fears for anyone in Sanford, Florida with a police department like that."
Also problematic, according to Jealous, is the Florida law that allows residents to carry concealed handguns and not have to worry about backing down from a confrontation.
"We parted ways with Wild West justice a long time ago in this country," Jealous says, "Unfortunately, the Stand Your Ground Law is threatening to bring it back. It has brought it back in some places."
The law school consensus seemed to be that the Trayvon Martin Case had nothing to do with Stand Your Ground. They believe it had everything to do with racial profiling.
If there is a silver lining, Benjamin Jealous says it might be that the country is having its first honest conversation about racial profiling and he's hopeful that will lead to something beneficial.
Look for trouble to occur.
I have read that the young man was in a gated community when he was not suposed to be at to begin with?
This could end up helping Romney, because there will be people who are “fed up” with the antics of Obama and Holder, meaning a “new silent majority?”
I have read that the young man was in a gated community when he was not suposed to be at to begin with?
Not a chance. The vast majority of whites have been completely snowed by the media and will vote for the black guy again due to white guilt.
The kid was staying with a parent who lived in that community.
“If the citizens of this nation no longer have the right to self defense then there will be a civil war. Do you understand that?”
You are correct, I am very afraid this whole incident has planted the seeds for one down the road.
Thanks to organizations like the National Association for the Advancement of Communist Principles, George Zimmerman doesn’t stand a snowball’s chance in Hell of getting a fair trial. And that’s fine with them.
Whatever the verdict, there will be riots.
...and a big 'FU' to the 69 million that voted for him. Each and every one of you is beneath contempt. You are either racist, anti-American, or just flat-out stupid.
Some time back, I had posted to another FRper whose late parents lived in a gated community as well as an aunt and the late father told him to be mindful of the security folks.
I have doubts. Not this time.
There will be a hung jury, just as I predicted.
Jeff, Great post and bears repeating.
This what I have been saying, look for a hung jury, no doubt.
He/she/it likely doesn't have two brain cells to rub together, if anything can be deduced from postings. It is actions of people precisely like anglian that have resulted in this arrest.
Mob rule. And people who usually advocate for mob rule are one of three things: Stupid, Evil or Liberal.
Sometimes all three. I can't say if anglian is a liberal, though, or a liar.
Yes, a hung jury is the most likely outcome, unless there’s an all-black jury.
But why even have a trial? The media has already convicted him.
There is irony in this, it is true.
The fact is, for conservatives, 2nd Amendment rights trump political affiliation. We fully support the right of liberals to carry concealed weapons to protect themselves with. (Unfortunately, there are a disproportionate number of “liberals” who carry concealed weapons are criminals who do not carry under the structure of the 2nd Amendment.
There are idiots, even on this thread, who don’t understand that the 2nd Amendment is for those of us who don’t fall into the category above, and even a low-life liberal Democrat, Obama supporter deserves the protection the 2nd Amendment affords.
Zimmerman should have left the country.
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