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Originally posted by ker2010
reply to post by MrWendal
Do you think the boys parents have right to a Wrongful death suit?edit on 24-3-2012 by ker2010 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Hardstepah
reply to post by blupblup
nobody has said that this kid got what he deserved,
Originally posted by Chalupas
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BLACK PANTHERS - $10K bounty on Zimmerman
New Black Panther leader Mikhail Muhammad announced the reward during a protest in Sanford Saturday. And when asked whether he was inciting violence, Muhammad replied defiantly: "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth."
If the government won't do the job, we'll do it," Muhammad said, leading his group of eight party members in chants like "freedom or death" and "justice for Trayvon" while making the iconic gesture of raising their fists into the air
Hmm....Wouldn't they be doing the EXACT same thing they are saying Zimmerman did?
It's like we are really in the stone age. Apparently, a complete understanding of civilized judgement is unnessecary -- I mean, laws, who needs them. Right?
edit on 24-3-2012 by Chalupas because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Hardstepah
reply to post by blupblup
you people really need to stop saying people are justifying this "murder".
What the Black Panther Party is calling for is a crime. Since this is coming from an actual organization, it even fits the legal definition of a "terrorist" organization.
Originally posted by xEphon
reply to post by rufusdrak
I apologize. Try 2:20
he whispers "fu*cking coons" clear as day.
Unless, you know, he was just cursing something in a whisper for no reason.
edit on 24-3-2012 by xEphon because: (no reason given)
NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News Channel commentator Geraldo Rivera said Friday that the hoodie an unarmed black teenager wore when he was killed in Florida is as much responsible for his death as the man who shot him. The veteran TV personality, speaking on "Fox & Friends," waded in with an opinion on the shooting of Trayvon Martin, a story that has attracted national attention over the past month.
He later acknowledged that his comments were "politically incorrect." People wearing hooded sweatshirts are often going to be perceived as a menace, Rivera said. "I'll bet you money that if he didn't have that hoodie on, that nutty neighborhood watch guy wouldn't have responded in that violent and aggressive way," Rivera said. The unarmed 17-year-old Martin was killed Feb. 26 in Sanford. He was wearing a hoodie and returning from a trip to a convenience store when neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman started following him, telling police dispatchers he looked suspicious.
Zimmerman hasn't been charged and says he shot Martin in self-defense. The case brought hundreds of people together in New York with Martin's parents for a protest march this week. The BET television network said it would air a special, "Shoot First: The Tragedy of Trayvon Martin," on Monday. Of Martin, Rivera said, "God bless him, he was an innocent kid, a wonderful kid." But he said the case should be a warning to parents to watch what their children should wear.
"If you dress like a hoodlum eventually some schmuck is going to take you at your word," he wrote in a commentary posted Friday on the website Fox News Latino. Hundreds of people had posted messages on Rivera's Facebook page by Friday afternoon, the overwhelming majority of them negative about Rivera's comments. Rivera compared his own comments to those of fellow Fox analyst Juan Williams, who was fired by National Public Radio in 2010 for saying on Fox that he gets nervous when he sees people on a plane with clothing that identifies them as Muslim.
"No one black, brown or white can honestly tell me that seeing a kid of color with a hood pulled over his head doesn't generate a certain reaction — sometimes scorn, often menace," Rivera wrote in his commentary
Originally posted by baddmove
Well here is a new twist in this whole mess..
Heraldo Rivera says it was because he was wearing a hoodie that he was shot and killed..
Heraldo Rivera says it was because he was wearing a hoodie that he was shot and killed..
Originally posted by ker2010
I could really care less about race, clothes style, music listened to, etc etc
A UNARMED teenager is dead, i just have a problem with anyone shooting a unarmed person. I can see if the person was much bigger or stronger and maybe a trained fighter.
That kid in his recent pics is a lot smaller than the shooter. He looks no more than a buck fifty.
I just dont think that kid would or could have beat that guy to death. Very few people get beat to death by someone who weighs a good 80lbs less than they do, and furthermore i dont see that kid trying to beat the guy to death.
So I just cant justify the shooting.
Originally posted by ker2010
I really dont see how height plays a part in it. 6"2 and 150 lbs is not big. Size is a combination of height along with weight.
5"9 240-50 lbs guy is much bigger.