[Newsbot]

Title: Outrage prompts U.S. investigation of Florida teen killing
Category: Law & Order
Posted By: Robair
Date: 2012-03-20 07:44:50
Canadian

[DanSC]

Hispanics gunning down young Black men. I'm glad I don't live near Florida and can avoid the potential race war.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

I'm glad I don't live where there's a "wide latitude" in why you're allowed to shoot someone.

[andyt]

Care to explain what your comment has to do with the story?

[raydan]

andyt andyt:

Care to explain what your comment has to do with the story?

Read the story...

$1:

The law provides a shooter with wide latitude to claim a killing was in self defense.

[andyt]

I was talking to Dan, PA slipped in ahead of me. The person who did the shooting was white, there were no Hispanics involved in this story.

[DanSC]

andyt andyt:

I was talking to Dan, PA slipped in ahead of me. The person who did the shooting was white, there were no Hispanics involved in this story.

Oh andyt, I thought you were better than to think that White and Hispanic are mutually exclusive. White is a race, Hispanic is an ethnicity. Those are not the same things.

From Slate

$1:

Zimmerman, whose father says he identifies as Hispanic, called the cops to report a suspicious person. They told him not to follow. “They always get away,” Zimmerman told dispatch in a 911 call released Friday, and he kept tracking Martin. Zimmerman had a gun.

Before you ask, they cannot talk to George Zimmerman himself as he has almost certainly lawyered up. Here's a picture of the man for reference however.

[andyt]

DanSC DanSC:

andyt andyt:

I was talking to Dan, PA slipped in ahead of me. The person who did the shooting was white, there were no Hispanics involved in this story.

Oh andyt, I thought you were better than to think that White and Hispanic are mutually exclusive. White is a race, Hispanic is an ethnicity. Those are not the same things.

From Slate

$1:

Zimmerman, whose father says he identifies as Hispanic, called the cops to report a suspicious person. They told him not to follow. “They always get away,” Zimmerman told dispatch in a 911 call released Friday, and he kept tracking Martin. Zimmerman had a gun.

Before you ask, they cannot talk to George Zimmerman himself as he has almost certainly lawyered up. Here's a picture of the man for reference however.

I'm really confused now, because you said this:

DanSC DanSC:

Hispanics gunning down young Black men. I'm glad I don't live near Florida and can avoid the potential race war.

[DanSC]

Considering you weren't around or may not even remember the 1992 South L.A. riots, I'll let your ignorance pass this time.

[sandorski]

Tragic situation. Appears to be a well intentioned act that snowballed into Murder of an innocent.

[andyt]

DanSC DanSC:

Considering you weren't around or may not even remember the 1992 South L.A. riots, I'll let your ignorance pass this time.

I remember the riots, no I wasn't there. What's that got to do with your comment? You just informed me that Hispanic is not a race.

[BartSimpson]

andyt andyt:

I was talking to Dan, PA slipped in ahead of me. The person who did the shooting was white, there were no Hispanics involved in this story.

The media is spinning the shooter as white.

He's clearly Hispanic.



Edit: Zimmerman's own family is saying he's Hispanic. I'd say they ought to know.

http://www.dominionofnewyork.com/2012/0 ... ot-racist/

$1:

Robert Zimmerman said his son is Hispanic and not racist. ”He would be the last to discriminate for any reason whatsoever …,” the letter to the Orlando Sentinel says. “The media portrayal of George as a racist could not be further from the truth.”

[andyt]

So what do you think should happen in this case? Was the guy justified in shooting?

[raydan]

sandorski sandorski:

Tragic situation. Appears to be a well intentioned act that snowballed into Murder of an innocent.

Personally, I don't see any "well intentioned act here".

[BartSimpson]

andyt andyt:

DanSC DanSC:

Considering you weren't around or may not even remember the 1992 South L.A. riots, I'll let your ignorance pass this time.

I remember the riots, no I wasn't there. What's that got to do with your comment? You just informed me that Hispanic is not a race.

Neither is 'Muslim' yet that doesn't stop no end of retards from thinking it's a race.

What's ironic here is that where my father was from Spain I am legally Hispanic.