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Thread #144100   Message #3330347
Posted By: Don(Wyziwyg)T
28-Mar-12 - 06:55 PM
Thread Name: BS: Killed for Being Black? #2
Subject: RE: BS: Killed for Being Black? #2
""Police should have simply arrested Zimmerman and let a judge sort it out.

Zimmerman has not been arrested because he told police he acted in self-defense, and then-Chief Lee said police did not have probable cause. Florida Statute 776.032 expressly prohibits police from arresting someone who had a reasonable fear of imminent death or great bodily harm. Police may investigate, the statute says, "but the agency may not arrest the person" without probable cause.

rstutzman@tribune.com or 407-650-6394
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So, if Trayvon's punch and the resultant contact between the back of his head and the ground had killed Zimmerman, and unarmed Trayvon had claimed self defence against a man with a gun, he would not have been arrested?

YEAH, RIGHT!!

Anybody seen any flying pigs around Sanford?

Don T.