What if a black Neighbohood watch shot can killed an Unarmed white teen?

[DearAbby]

Would we be having this conversation?

[Scuba]

1. No, his execution would have been a while ago, and long forgotten.

[Hoyt]

2. There would be two dead people. And the watch's family would have to leave town.

[graham4anything]

7. as an aside- the Guardian Angels in NYC NO GUNS/NO BULLETS saved many people over the years

It is always the guns and bullets that become the problem, isn't it?

zimmy with a tennis ball and nobody dies
zimmy out there with his gun and bullet and what happened could have been predicted by a 2nd grader.

[Hoyt]

8. That is a good point about Guardian Angels. If only our gun cultists had their guts.

[egduj]

3. What if a Jewish professional baseball player garroted an Ecuadorian bio-engineer.

What conversation would we be having then?

[treestar]

4. No, even in stand your ground territories

It would clearly not be self defense.

[Hoyt]

9. Not that racist BS again.

[JI7]

29. Zimmerman was not on "his roof or other property" that belonged to him

[MichiganVote]

6. So long as we have the history we have, where white men and families

lynched black men and youth and actually made it a social affair, there is and never will be a black mother or father who will trust that justice will be found in this case.

Today's "lynching" of Black youth comes in the form of ridiculous prison sentences for black youth who do not commit criminal assault/murder. The 'stand your ground law' in the case of Trayvon Martin is putting this to the test. I don't believe that is laws intent but apparently George Zimmerman wants us to believe that it is.

[Bluenorthwest]

14. Stand your ground is not part of the Zimmerman case.

It's just not. Read up on it. I agree with the rest of what you are saying, but this case does not involve the use of a 'stand your ground' defense.

[MichiganVote]

15. In the minds of the Black community it is very much a part of this case.

[The Straight Story]

11. We would say whites can't be victims of racism and because of the past probably had it coming

Or something like that ... especially if the teen was male. If it was a female it would only be due to sexism. Christian and shooter wasn't? No problem, christians can never be discriminated against because other christians did bad things.

Someone would probably claim he went all paula deen and said an offensive word which triggered a deep issue ingrained through years of racism and the shooter should be cut some slack.

We would blame an innocent person based on the past of other people and assign guilt to them based on their race and not on the person was (that is only ok in some circumstances as noted, otherwise it is bigotry and stereotyping)...

[NaturalHigh]

13. +1

[Gman]

12. Would the neighborhood watch tell 9-11

F*****g cracker and refuse to do what 9-11 says and continue to follow?

[ileus]

16. What if the black neighborhood watchman shot a hispanic?

[cigsandcoffee]

17. It's not exactly that situation, but here's one...

http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/story/17717626/taco-bell-shooting-victim-was-holding-leash-not-weapon-04042012

About 7:30 p.m., a 22-year-old man and his girlfriend ordered food at the Taco Bell drive-thru and were told to pull up while their order was prepared.

At the same time, Adkins stepped around a corner into the path of the vehicle and angry words were exchanged between he and the driver.

They got into an altercation and Adkins was shot once by the driver. He died at the scene. The driver, a 22-year-old black male, called police but has not been arrested.

At first, the couple claimed that Adkins had a metal pipe that he swung at them -- but it turns out he was holding a dog leash with his yellow lab on the other end.

The victim was, ironically, a "white-Hispanic." Take it as you will.

[NaturalHigh]

18. This was interesting too.

The shooter's name has not been released. The investigation is still ongoing.

How long was George Zimmerman's name withheld from the public?

BTW...since this has been a while, do you know if the shooter was ever arrested?

[JI7]

26. in this case the guy who got shot was the one who came towards the people

in the car.

it wasn't a case of the shooter going after the person they shot .

sadly the victim seemed to be someone who had mental problems. the shooter should have rolled up his windows and called the cops.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

19. We would never be having this conversation because said black neighborhood watchman

would be on death row. You know it. I know it. And the bigots here and everywhere defending Zimmerman also know it; they're just too cowardly to admit it.

[NaturalHigh]

21. Is everyone who defends Zimmerman a bigot?

[alcibiades_mystery]

22. Not everyone

But it's close.

Of course, nobody is a bigot anymore, broad brush and all that, tra la la.

I would say it's pretty fucking close. 99 out of 100.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

23. Of course not, but believing that race had absolutely NOTHING to do with what went down...

...well, sometimes I wonder.

[Apophis]

20. Nope. We would not be having this discussion.

[Skittles]

24. CORRECT

[JI7]

25. as i said before, it would be like the Ariel Castro case

we may hear about it , but there would be no debate on his guilt. no "you weren't there so you don't know" (therefore we have to accept everything shooter says).

[BainsBane]

27. death penalty

The cops would have arrested him on the spot, and prosecutors would try him for capital murder. He's likely be convicted and sitting on death row by now.

[Inkfreak]

28. Prolly not. But people are murdered everyday and little is said.

And with the dozens of threads about Zimmerman, who has time?

[Notafraidtoo]

30. He would have been arrested and charged..

No one would be arguing that the shooter was innocent even if everything happened exactly the same. Racist gun nuts don't like it when black people have guns.

Remember when the Black panthers stormed into the state Capitol with rifles,gun legislation happened in record time LOL. I have never heard a NRA Republican ever champion what the panthers did.