Jack McCarthy wrote a impassioned essay on the travesty in Florida. I feel like he does. The title is correct, in addition to the points Jack is making, I'll state the obvious, Zimmerman did not think about the Stand Your Ground law, or the punishment, when he decided to kill. ~ Ilene
Why Florida’s Atrocious Stand-Your-Ground Law Had Little to do With the Murder of Trayvon Martin
By JACK McCARTHY
Florida’s so-called “stand your ground” law is a legal abomination and needs to be chucked.
However, Florida’s ridiculous invitation to murder, aka the “Stand your ground” law, had very little to do with the blatant injustice surrounding the execution style murder of teenager Trayvon Martin by a “Neighborhood Watch” thug named George Zimmerman.
To paraphrase 60s black revolutionary H.Rap Brown, the shooting of unarmed blacks guilty of nothing but being black is “as American as apple pie.”
Despite the existence of that heinous law, Sanford Florida police chief Bill Lee’s lame excuse that “stand your ground” forbade him from detaining, much less arresting the pathetic wretch of a vigilante George Zimmerman who defied Sanford dispatchers orders to stay in his car, is pure blarney.
There’s nothing in the law that prevented Lee from doing just that.
Just as there was nothing to prevent him from sending a homicide detective instead of a narcotics detective to the scene in the aftermath. Or for that matter to prevent him from conducting an alcohol or drug test on Zimmerman whose prior arrest photo make him appear drunk and stoned as opposed to the photos of young, healthy Martin in his high school football uniform.
