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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it's still his fault. He shouldn't have put himself in that situation to begin with. 911 said don't act, [b]he should have followed their command[/b]. If he [b]stalked[/b] Trayvon and threatened him, Trayvon had the right to fight back. Trayvon didn't stalk him and it wouldn't have happened if this over-zealous vigilante had just waited for the police![/quote] The police did not "command" him not to do it, nor did they tell him not to do it. I am unaware of any jurisdiction in which following a man in a neighborhood one time would qualify as stalking. Honestly, I just hate the amped-up rhetoric that both sides have used regarding this issue. It is the same post over and over again. One person says "stick to the facts" and then recites a version of the events that is shot through with assumptions and hyperbole. The other side then does the exact same thing with the opposite spin. In the same way that walking through a neighborhood wearing a hoodie does not mean that it is OK to kill that person, following someone in a neighborhood does not mean that the self-defense doctrine should not be available to you if that person does indeed turn and start attacking you. [/quote] Why would that person turn and start attacking you? He was unarmed! Why would a "reasonable person" do this? The law uses a reasonable man standard, you know. It does not take into account wild irrational reactions that a crazy person might have. It is possible that Z taunted TM--said things like: what are doing here nagger! I've called the police n-gger, you better not run, etc. That could have incited TM to confront Z. Z was looking for a fight! Perhaps he got one! But he is not entitled to use deadly force in that fight unless he reasonably believed TM had a gun. [b]There's the rub, though[/b]--in the armpit state of Florida, his belief might just have been reasonable.[/quote] He was a 17 yr old boy...a teenager...that in and of itself precludes him from being a "reasonable person." Teens are not reasonable. They are impulsive, irrational and completely lacking in common sense. I'm not saying what happened to him was right or that Z was right...just that we've all been teens, we all know teens and we all know they do stuff someone with more life experience wouldn't do. Maybe he did attack Z. I don't know. You don't know. We weren't there. In any case I hope justice is done...whatever that is in this case.[/quote]
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