Well it appears that the Trayvon Martin saga will continue
for some time and has taken on a life of its own and this is before all the
facts are in…people actually don’t want any facts; they have the story just
where they want it and that is that.
I will maintain that Zimmermann should never have had a gun
while patrolling for the Neighborhood Watch program. His job was to REPORT
anything suspicious and that is all…this tragedy should have never happened!
Zimmermann will use the self-defense argument and the
Florida “Stand Your Ground” law because supposedly he was attacked by Trayvon
after confronting him because it now appears that Trayvon did react violently at
what he perceived was a danger to his person … but Zimmermann will probably get
off which will not sit well with the nation.
The Feds will try to make this into a hate crime but that
will be a big stretch according to existing evidence and may actually garner a
serious backlash. Everyone needs to take a deep breath and do what the law
dictates and not grandstand in front of TV cameras. President Obama probably
should have kept quiet or just acknowledge the tragedy.
I did find it interesting that Detroit residents decided to get out of the
house and protest the Treyvon killing. On TV today, I saw high school students
actually getting together to make their feelings known and a large group of
Detroiters was shown protesting in downtown Detroit .
What struck me is what I have been talking about for some
time now; Detroiters come out to protest a killing in Florida
but no one protests nearly daily killings in Detroit of children and young adults.
I talked about the Detroit
gas station shooting where a black customer was shot and killed by a Middle
Eastern clerk; there are protesters still at the gas station, weeks after the
shooting!
Trayvon was killed by a white/Latino person; am I missing
something here?
Tonight’s news reported the finding of the bodies of two
young black women in a shallow grave. They were abducted and killed by two
black men trying to keep them from testifying against them for some crime they
committed…I don’t think you will here a peep from the community.
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