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In reply to the discussion: Already, another Trayvon Martin incident has just happened [View all]AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)There's nothing for him on the other side.
He left his bike behind in the street.
In fact, the evidence weighs quite heavily AGAINST what you are suggesting as an alternative.
(trespassing is a crime by the way, so it's silly for you to assume he was up to NO crime at all. It would require that he was INVITED to enter the yard by the property owner.)
I am not upset at all. I am quite willing to accept a plausible reason for him to have climbed over that fence at 2 am with a friend nearby, and the bike in the street, and no destination for him on the other side of the property. You have yet to offer one.
That said, I am ALSO prepared to defend him from being assumed to have warranted deadly force as a reasonable response, even if he was up to all manner of fuckery, as long as he didn't present a credible threat to the shooter. So far, all evidence points to that being the case.
This appears to be an unwarranted shooting. Period.