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"The Tampa Bay Times found that people who killed a black person walked free 73 percent of the time, while those who killed a white person went free 59 percent of the time." This is an idiotic claim. What's to say the case surrounding those white people were legitimate and per the law and the others weren't.. you can't say well they've let more white people off and disregard the fact that we have no history of what exactly the other cases were about and why they weren't let off. You could easily say 59% of the time the people had blue eyes.. :| See how dumb that sounds? It's a ridiculous and misleading quote. But of course that is the job of the media. Although I don't agree with the case involving Marissa Alexander she discharged a weapon which is against the law. If you knew anything about the Stand Your Ground law then you'd know that if you had time to shoot at a wall you had time to make another choose. That law is for people that have no time to think about another choice. Did you know that according to the Bureau of Justice stats, that between 1976 and 2011, 269,000 black youths were murdered. And of those deaths, 262,000 were killed by other blacks. So who exactly is killing and getting away with things? Why isn't anyone rioting and civil suing people for this?? No but try to find a connection with a white person and even if it's a stretch and it's on right??? "Reporting on Spin and Disinformation" .. really? or do you mean spinning disinformation to confuse the masses?

This incredibly sad story played out largely because GZ did NOT listen to the dispatcher in the first place. When GZ called 911 and requested advice as to what to do, i.e., whether (TM) should be "followed," the dispatcher said "No, we don't need you to do that." That should have been the end of it; instead GZ got out of his truck to pursue/confront TM. Why would you do that, unless perhaps a 'suspected perp' was imminently going to attack another person and you saw it about to happen, in which case you might have an immediate reason to get out of vehicle? That, I could understand, but what GZ did instead, which was to charge ahead on foot after TM, AGAINST police advice, was simply wrong. What kind of example is GZ setting for young people if he as an ADULT (and wannabe police officer) does not listen to police? So what if TM had a hoodie on? Plenty of kids in my old neighborhood wore hoodies. I shudder to think that if you're a young black guy in the US, good luck, 'cause your days may be numbered. I worry about the kids my daughter grew up with: will they make it without running afoul of some reality-skewed armed vigilante? If you're going to arm yourself, a whole lot of responsibility goes along with that, and you want to work WITH the cops, not against them, by not endangering yourself or others. (By the way, my city's at least 55% African American. Many of the cops are, too.)