Posted on 04/11/2018 6:50:09 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Shomari Legghette, charged with murder in the February killing of Chicago police Cmdr. Paul Bauer, compared himself to Trayvon Martin in a jailhouse interview with Chicago magazine.
The magazine details Legghette and Bauer’s lives leading up to the beloved police commander’s slaying.
Legghette, a four-time felon, does not go into much detail about the fatal confrontation with Bauer, but said he’s not guilty of murder in Bauer’s shooting.
“Would Trayvon Martin have been guilty with George Zimmerman if it had went the other way?” Legghette said.
On Feb. 13, officers patrolling Lower Wacker Drive because of a recent shooting and drug sales approached Legghette, but he took off running.
Bauer, downtown for a meeting, heard a radio call of a fleeing suspect and spotted Legghette running nearby moments later.
Bauer chased Legghette to the top of a stairwell outside the Thompson Center and attempted to detain him. The two struggled and ended up on a landing below.
Legghette, who was wearing body armor, drew a handgun and fired seven shots, fatally wounding Bauer.
Beside making the comparison with Martin, Legghette defended his use of body armor — which is banned for felons.
“If you swim, you should have you some scuba gear. If you play football, you got on a helmet and pads. If you’re in the streets, you gotta secure yourself. The police have on body armor. Why is it that the police can wear body armor and the citizens can’t?” Legghette said.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
The capacity to be easily offended is racial? We aren’t talking a response to being startled here. Martin wasn’t in any danger at all from a guy out of sight when he had left the area but chose to go back. This is representative of something cultivated. An attitude, not a reflex.
Obama used that episode to successfully create racial division which is when Milwaukee county sheriff David Clarke condemned it http://www.theusmat.com/index.htm
Well, actually he would have been.
Martin attacked Zimmerman, not the other way around.
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