Trayvon Martin case: After police chief steps aside, state prosecutor recuses himself

[Black]

Dennis S wrote:
When a person shoots and kills another person, there should be an arrest and a trial. Then, they can decide if "Stand Your Ground" applies.

That this is not current practice is simply unbelievable.

[Dennis S]

It is insane that a man can shoot a guy and kill him with no witnesses, tell the cops it was self-defense, and go home still carrying the gun. And I think over 20 states have this law.

[Grace62]

[decay]

it's like the WILD WILD WEST - laws take the back seat to GUNS.

[davester]

This is all an NRA wet dream.

[Dennis S]

It seems Zimmerman has been kicked out of college because of the problems he has caused himself. Even worse for him is:

The New Black Panthers were handing out flyers at a rally at Sanford City Hall with Zimmerman's picture on them. The caption read “wanted dead or alive.”

http://www.examiner.com/democrat-in-nati...d-or-alive

It seems he was a little short-sighted when he decided to play cop.

[Grace62]

“Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm; but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.”'

T.S. Eliot

[Bill in NC]

Apparently there was at least one witness who seems to confirm the shooter's POV:

http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/dpp/news/st...n-03232012

Incovenient as that may be for the lynch mob.

[August West]

I think the inconvenience lies with the dead child's family.

That aside, this doesn't really tell me a lot other than there was a physical struggle.

[Lux Interior]

Bill in NC wrote:
Incovenient as that may be for the lynch mob.

Seems to support that if anyone should have been shot in self-defense, it was Zimmerman, seeing as Martin was merely "standing his ground."