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Black Man Shoots White Teen, Jury says Self Defense. And Nobody Cares [W:86]

How dare he go out and protect his property and defend his life.

Has anyone taken the time to read the New York State Self Defense Statutes? There's a retreat clause that requires those using self defense to retreat to a place they are no able to retreat before they use deadly force. Apparently Roderick Scott had no ideas about retreat. He left the safety of his home, confronted the suspected criminals and shot one to death.
 
I need to forward this story to the White House, clearly they missed it.
 
That may be the lamest, weakest excuse I have ever seen on this site in the history of ever.

But its true... You couldn't cover ever murder as much as Martin's, there's only 24 hours in a day. In 2010 there was an average of 44 murders a day, if you devoted every hour of your news cycle, and elimated ads, you'd spend just over 30 minutes per each murder and then never touch on it again because the next day would give you another 44 murders. So it would be impossible to give every murder Zimmerman/Martin coverage.

Now the only question is are you going to accept that fact and move on or rage against me as if this reality is somehow my just my opinion.
 
It sounded like it was his cars they were messing with.
Yes he could have let them damage his cars, but
the choice to charge someone with a gun was the young man's
bad decision.

In the story linked in this OP it only says this

"Roderick Scott went out of his house to confront a trio of punks breaking into cars in his Greece, New York neighborhood"

It didn't say they were his cars. Did you see that in another story somewhere? If they were his cars I could see coming out and saying something but coming out of the house armed, especially when he was that big of a man, doesn't seem right in this case.

I would like to see the evidence presented to the jury. It would be interesting.
 
In related news, why haven't we heard from Obama about the 13 year old girl that was gang raped by 10-13 illegal aliens?
 
But its true... You couldn't cover ever murder as much as Martin's, there's only 24 hours in a day. In 2010 there was an average of 44 murders a day, if you devoted every hour of your news cycle, and elimated ads, you'd spend just over 30 minutes per each murder and then never touch on it again because the next day would give you another 44 murders. So it would be impossible to give every murder Zimmerman/Martin coverage.

Now the only question is are you going to accept that fact and move on or rage against me as if this reality is somehow my just my opinion.
You arent even for a second going to pretend that the reason this isnt reported and broadly discussed is because it doesnt 'fit' the agenda are you? At the very least it should be offered to show a balanced perspective...that this sort of thing does indeed happen where roles and races are reversed and that maybe just maybe the douchebags and assclowns that raved on about the Martin/Zimmerman race case are truly nothing ore than douchebags and assclowns.
 
You arent even for a second going to pretend that the reason this isnt reported and broadly discussed is because it doesnt 'fit' the agenda are you? At the very least it should be offered to show a balanced perspective...that this sort of thing does indeed happen where roles and races are reversed and that maybe just maybe the douchebags and assclowns that raved on about the Martin/Zimmerman race case are truly nothing ore than douchebags and assclowns.

I have a lot of complaints about cable news coverage, however giving equal coverage to different murders to cover all the racial bases isn't one of them. Firstly I don't see these murders as matters of race, Martin/Zimmerman to me personally isn't about race is about one guy killing another one and the question of whether that was legal given the situation. It may be racial to other people, obviously it is, but I see no benefit and nothing gained from making it racial.

Also while murders can become high profile stories which generate and lot of viewers, which is the real agenda of an media not a political or social message, I know that there are much more important stories happening in the world that deserve more coverage. Personally I would like to see less coverage of murders and more coverage of law making sessions, economics, foreign affairs, etc.

So in other words I don't care that it would be a more balanced perspective since it wouldn't cover topics I think need covering so it would just be more of a bad thing. I don't care about making people out to be assclowns and douchebags, even if I think the deserve to be, I'd rather see a problem just stop than go out of my way to punish someone for it.

Also I shouldn't have said "every murder as much as Martin's" in my last post since Zimmerman was not guilty of murder and therefore Martin was not murdered, that was my mistake. Personally I believe the jury came back with the right verdict, there simply was not enough evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that it was murder.
 
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