mitchmatchsox answered your question: My thoughts on this whole Travon Martin thing
after reading your blog, one question…who do you think reacted first? And i am pretty sure that the gun was presented first.
No where has there been any evidence that the gun was presented first. It depends on what you consider reacting.
pantyfetish50 answered your question: My thoughts on this whole Travon Martin thing
Two wrongs do not make a right and does not justified killing, the perception of Zimmerman getting a way with murder appears to be racist.
It was self defense, he had a concealed weapons licence, and was getting beat up. The kid was already acting suspicious, and then starts to physically attack him. What would you have done? If you were in his position, scared on the ground, afraid that you just might die, what would you have done?
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My thoughts on this whole Travon Martin thing
A man, who was neighbor hood watch, saw a boy walking around in front of some houses in the rain, staring at and approaching him. He did as he his duties say, and kept an eye on him, while phoning the police. The operator said he didn’t need to follow any longer, but also didn’t tell him he had to stop. The teen feels threatened, possibly, because he knows he’s being followed. He assaults the man and sends him to the hospital. But that man had a gun, and he used that gun, and the teen died. Both men felt threatened, and reacted with violence.
No where in that story does race seem to be a relevant factor. People who make this about race just want it to be about race. Acting like because the victim was black, that the police are “pushing it under the rug”. What people most not realize, is Sanford isn’t some small, anti-black club. In fact Sanford is predominantly black.
I think that it’s ridiculous that people are getting so passionate about something that is only headline news because the way the story was spinned. If the original breaking news story would have said that a teenage was shot after beating up a man and sending him to the hospital, then none of this would be happening. He wasn’t some innocent poor kid, he had a troubled past too. He was only in Sanford because he was sent to his dad’s after getting suspended for 10 days from his school in Miami. And all the people who are bashing Florida and Sanford law enforcement know nothing. Do you live here? Do you know anything else about our police, besides what you’ve heard from this case? Probably not. And, most importantly, because this whole ordeal has become about race, no one is safe here. There was a 200+ person riot at our county fair last week. Fights are breaking out everywhere. Parent’s are afraid for their kids while they’re at school. You have to be careful walking around or driving. Any little thing can get twisted and start racial hate violence. Sanford has become a scary place, but all the rest of the nation doesn’t care what kind of trouble they’re stirring, as long as the have something to get all civil rights activist about. This shouldn’t have involved race. And just because that’s how the media portrayed it doesn’t mean that anyone’s Constitutional rights should be violated. Innocent until proven guilty, no exceptions. Don’t go trying to take someone’s rights just because you think that “he’s obviously guilty” or “deserves it”. Let the police do their job. Don’t give them more work by inspiring even more hate crime. Causing riots isn’t going to bring justice to Travon any faster, quite the opposite in fact.
