kingkazpur wrote:
"What the law is actually saying is this country doesn't value the life of black and brown kids. We want our kids to understand their lives are equal value of anybody else life," the elder Martin said
How much do your fellow Crips value the lives of non-Crip "black and brown" kids, Fruit? Some 94% of "black and brown kids" are killed by
other "black and brown kids". Oh, and that Zimmerman guy? He's a "brown kid".
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Democratic U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, of Jacksonville, spoke at the rally, exhorting change.
"I've never seen a perfect bill and changes need to happen with this bill," Brown told AP afterward. "When they started, it had good intentions. Protect your castle. But they have extended it to, you don't like the color of my dress and you feel threatened after you start a fight — there's something wrong with that."
Politicians should be held accountable for such blatant lies. Her statements directly contradict with the actual text of Florida self-defense statutes. If you shoot someone because you don't like the color of her dress, Florida self-defense statutes do not provide you a legal sanctuary. If you start a fight, under Florida self-defense statutes, the burden is much higher to prove that the other person escalated that fight to the point that you were legally justified to use deadly force in self-defense.
And there's no evidence whatsoever that Zimmerman started a fight, and all existing evidence indicates that Martin was the initial - and only - physical aggressor.