More questions arise as to the adequacy of the Sanford Police investigation of the Martin shooting.
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Sanford Commission Votes No Confidence In Sanford Police Chief
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fairsheet
Senator
The were "prohibited from arresting him"? Some are saying they feared being sued if they arrested him?
I'm no lawyer, but these sound like bullshit to me. For the most part - this is more akin to the old saw about how they can "indict a ham sandwich". For all practical purposes, the police are free to arrest pretty much whomever they like. It's the prosecution and conviction phase that gets a little trickier.
I'm no lawyer, but these sound like bullshit to me. For the most part - this is more akin to the old saw about how they can "indict a ham sandwich". For all practical purposes, the police are free to arrest pretty much whomever they like. It's the prosecution and conviction phase that gets a little trickier.
Woolleybugger
Mayor
Check this comment out on CBS news regarding your post...
"I've just put together a picture of young Trayvon wearing a hoodie, adressing the Million Hoodie Marchers. It says, "Dress and act like a gangster, DIE LIKE ONE." It's on a Word document.
I have absolutely no sympathy for those who try to scare decent people by this kind of behavior"
So if you wear a hoodie and are black, you are a gangster. And you can get shot. In fact, you deserved to get shot. And folks want to debate me on the racism in the South and beyond. To most white conservatives, black young men equates to a criminal. No question about it. Reminds me of the old Jim Crow laws that put black men in jail for loitering or not having a job...same mentality.
"I've just put together a picture of young Trayvon wearing a hoodie, adressing the Million Hoodie Marchers. It says, "Dress and act like a gangster, DIE LIKE ONE." It's on a Word document.
I have absolutely no sympathy for those who try to scare decent people by this kind of behavior"
So if you wear a hoodie and are black, you are a gangster. And you can get shot. In fact, you deserved to get shot. And folks want to debate me on the racism in the South and beyond. To most white conservatives, black young men equates to a criminal. No question about it. Reminds me of the old Jim Crow laws that put black men in jail for loitering or not having a job...same mentality.
fairsheet
Senator
Lawyer Mike Papantonio suggested the plausible angle that the City's police may've been somehow in cahoots with Zimmerman - not that they were complicit in the killing of Martin - but that Zimmerman may've been working with them in some other capacity like "confidential informant" or something like that. It sounded like Papantonio was having a very difficult time figuring out why the police were so "hands off" as to Zimmerman.
