“journalism”
MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry said during an address at Cornell University this week that she hopes 17-year-old Trayvon Martin “whooped the s–t” out of gunman George Zimmerman during their fatal encounter in 2012.
Well, you got your wish. Martin did and he got killed for it.
February 26th, 2015 at 12:00 pm
And thus we have the verdict: valid self defense. Damn people are stupid.
February 26th, 2015 at 12:31 pm
She is brain dead. She is the sycophant who asked Eric Holder to quack for her.
February 26th, 2015 at 12:42 pm
Would she want the same for herself?
February 26th, 2015 at 3:11 pm
Ignorance is Strength. If she didn’t know the actual legalities of the situation she proposed then she was certianly hoping her audience didn’t (or didn’t care).
And wasn’t this at a Cornell speech?
And she also said this “I hope [Martin] knew that he lived in a state with a ‘Stand Your Ground’ law.’”
Which would have made a difference… *how*? Even in a Duty to Retreat state you only have to retreat if it is *safe* to do so.
Is someone is “whooping the s-t” of of you then guess what? Safe retreat isn’t possible.
I mean wasn’t the core of Zimmerman’s defense was that he was physically unable to retreat? Blaming this on Stand Your Ground laws is as insane as blaming this on “Assault Weapons”. Oh…
February 26th, 2015 at 3:26 pm
All of these arguments and attempts to rationalize with her are pointless. She is a racist and a bigot. Nothing would have been a satisfactory defense or excuse for Zimmerman’s actions, except what she had already, in her racist and bigoted mind, concluded: Zimmerman shot Martin because he was a racist white man. All three of those descriptors, of course, are wrong. But not to her.
February 26th, 2015 at 5:57 pm
The_Jack,
Not only did Stand Your Ground have nothing to do with Martin getting shot, SYG also had nothing to do (legally speaking) with Zimmerman being acquitted. A fact that those infected with “Journalism” seem to forget these days.
Stand Your Ground here in Florida is a well understood (to those who pay attention) set of legal procedures. NONE of those legal procedures were used by Zimmerman’s legal team. The only time SYG was brought up during the trial, was when it was brought up by the prosecution.
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February 26th, 2015 at 9:27 pm
The race hustlers didn’t care so much for Trayvon Martin, they were after SYG laws even though I remember reading that blacks benefitted from them vs whites, 3 to 1.
February 26th, 2015 at 10:33 pm
Her words could and should be used in future cases of defensive shootings.
Whooping the shit out of somebody (aggravated battery and attempted murder) by definition putting someone in fear for their life, has been the legal standard for justifiable homicide since before CC and SYG were anything but letters.
February 27th, 2015 at 12:39 am
How can you expect her to understand anything she hears past those tampon earrings? That or the brain damage.
February 28th, 2015 at 3:17 pm
Maybe she’s just a racist who believes that blacks must be held to lesser standards than ” white Hispanics”. You know, if George Ziimmerman had been Jorge Rodriguez, we would’ve probably never heard about it.
March 1st, 2015 at 2:06 pm
Well he was straddling Zimmerman and smashing Zimmerman’s head into the walkway, hence he did ‘whop him’ … till Zimmerman shot him (and that was a real ‘whopping’, the fatal kind.)
So she made the case for Zimmerman’s self defense!