Standing one’s ground…

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Ooopsy!

 

More Stand Your Ground

Thank you, Daily Kos.

Standing My Ground

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Yep.  Great idea.  Let’s all just shoot each other.   {{Sigh}}   😦

Born Black in the USA

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Another downside to “Stand Your Ground” laws

 

 

Kenneth Roop was arrested for shooting and killing Nicholas Rainey, an unarmed door-to-door salesman on his property.  In Coral Gables, Florida.

Rainey said that he was selling steak and seafood. The co-worker said Roop pulled out a handgun and shot Rainey. As Rainey lay on the ground, Roop fired another bullet into the back of his head…….

Roop told police that he feared for his life: “I’m not going to give him the chance to do something to me. I was in fear.”

Want more of this type of thing?  Well, then, why not pass more “Stand Your Ground” laws and enable the idiots among us to think that this is a great idea?    😦

Racist justice continues

After the Trayvon Martin case became national news, it seems like similar stories are popping up regularly.  In Chicago, an off-duty policeman shot five times at Anthony Cross because he was close to the policeman’s home and armed with a cell phone.  A bullet struck Cross in the hand and Rekia Boyd, a bystander, in the head.  She’s dead.  In Pearland, Texas, Deanna Johnson tried to run over a black teenager for driving a go-cart in her gated community.  It turns out he was her neighbor.

There are similarities in each of these cases.  Victim=black, homeowner=not.  No one arrested.  In the Chicago case, the police department ruled it a justifiable shooting, and has charged Cross with aggravated assault.  Deanna Johnson was seen laughing with police after her attack on 13-year-old Jules Moor.  She said it was justified because he looked like a kid who’d been riding his bicycle in people’s driveways.  Apparently the police agreed.

I’m not sure how much more of this sort of news it’s going to take before someone decides enough is enough.  If you’re old enough to remember the Watts riots, you know that in the right atmosphere, all it takes is a spark to set off an inferno.  And nobody wins when that happens.