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Thread #143916   Message #3325680
Posted By: catspaw49
20-Mar-12 - 10:02 AM
Thread Name: BS: Killed for being black? Florida today
Subject: RE: BS: Killed for being black? Florida today
First, bad as this has been so far, the Justice Department will investigate this as a hate crime as it meets the actual requiement to do so.

Florida has taken a law used in 25 or so other states to protect pweople who use deadly force when they are backing away from the situation which has placed them in harm's way.......true self defense. Florida went nut which they so often do and wrote their law allowing a person to stand their ground when in harm's way which makes no sense and allows vigilanteism to take over. Hopefully this will bring down that dumbass law.

The mayor, police chief, and others will be meeting with the Justice department and this case will turn in a different direction. The girlfriend is encouraging news but without some solid statement, the local police are pretty screwed here thanks to this stupid law.


Spaw