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Will dakka let the link work if you do it with a URL instead of just pasting the link?

Test: see forum posting rules]-uncensored-while-railing-against-zimmermans-hatred-for-trayvon/" target="_new" rel="nofollow">Nancy Grace says stuff...

No it will not

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So it's just the profanity filter? Put the link through tinyurl or something.
   
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 djones520 wrote:
This is why Zimmerman will always be hunted through life...

Because even a year later, our media is still telling lies about it.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/nancy-grace-says-fking-[see forum posting rules]-uncensored-while-railing-against-zimmermans-hatred-for-trayvon/

Z never uttered those words. It's clear where the real "undeniable hatred" is coming from.

Ok... umm... Dakka won't let the link work.


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 Rented Tritium wrote:
 djones520 wrote:
 Rented Tritium wrote:
Yeah the whole "there will be riots" thing was just hysteria to keep you watching the news after the verdict. There was never enough anger down there for anything to happen and it's way too hot in florida right now to riot.


I'd say it has a lot more to do with a heavy police presence preventing the ball from really getting rolling. Florida has been pretty quiet, but out in L.A. they've certainly been trying.
The right wing blogs said the minorities would be rioting, the police said "ok sure lets prepare just in case" then it didn't happen.



Ah yes, the Right Wing Blogs, that explains the posts about rioting on Twitter.

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Oh. People have tried to riot. The police have just been prepared. The police presence last night in Cincys riot neighborhood (OTR) was substantial last night. Substantial.

And the majority of those athlete tweets were just what you'd expect: moronic drivel from undereducated millionaires. Those were no surprise. The one from Jonathan Vilma really impressed me. "Be constructive not destructive".


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 Gentleman_Jellyfish wrote:
 Rented Tritium wrote:
 djones520 wrote:
 Rented Tritium wrote:
Yeah the whole "there will be riots" thing was just hysteria to keep you watching the news after the verdict. There was never enough anger down there for anything to happen and it's way too hot in florida right now to riot.


I'd say it has a lot more to do with a heavy police presence preventing the ball from really getting rolling. Florida has been pretty quiet, but out in L.A. they've certainly been trying.
The right wing blogs said the minorities would be rioting, the police said "ok sure lets prepare just in case" then it didn't happen.



Ah yes, the Right Wing Blogs, that explains the posts about rioting on Twitter.


Again, no. People TRIED to and were unable to because police were prepared.

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It isn't the magic of the police that stop a riot or civil disobedience, it is a combination of things, including police presence, that do that. You also have people within the groups calling for calmer heads to prevail and the fact that while angry and upset, most people don't want to harm others and just lose control. We just had a thread about how the DoJ was there to help keep these groups peaceful and focused and already we want to dismiss any other influence that isn't a night stick.

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For the life of me. I cannot remember ever saying anything positive or negative of Casey Anthony........was hoping she take the porn deal though....put up their with Amy Fisher......

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 Ahtman wrote:
It isn't the magic of the police that stop a riot or civil disobedience, it is a combination of things, including police presence, that do that. You also have people within the groups calling for calmer heads to prevail and the fact that while angry and upset, most people don't want to harm others and just lose control. We just had a thread about how the DoJ was there to help keep these groups peaceful and focused and already we want to dismiss any other influence that isn't a night stick.


Actually if there are 20 people who want to riot and 10 cops with shotguns, there won't be a riot. There may be a large number of shootings and hospital visits, but no riot.

Houston doesn't have riots. See above.

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Sigh, Swedish media reporting on the case have all gone with the "horrible racism frees evil scumbag murderer" line. Considering the rise of some, in my opinion, unpleasant chaps into the Swedish Parliament and their obsession with how people who call them racists are overreacting I'd really like if the media didn't play straight into their hands, but alas...

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 Frazzled wrote:
 Ahtman wrote:
It isn't the magic of the police that stop a riot or civil disobedience, it is a combination of things, including police presence, that do that. You also have people within the groups calling for calmer heads to prevail and the fact that while angry and upset, most people don't want to harm others and just lose control. We just had a thread about how the DoJ was there to help keep these groups peaceful and focused and already we want to dismiss any other influence that isn't a night stick.


Actually if there are 20 people who want to riot and 10 cops with shotguns, there won't be a riot. There may be a large number of shootings and hospital visits, but no riot.

Houston doesn't have riots. See above.


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Quick little run down so far on the "riots"

Most of the protests were peaceful, but some of the most dramatic scenes occurred in Los Angeles, where protesters clashed with police Sunday night and Monday morning, with one group of protesters blocking a major freeway.

Police in Los Angeles said they arrested six people on Monday, mostly for failure to disperse.

The Los Angeles Times reported that a splinter group from a larger protest walked down an on-ramp to the Interstate 10 freeway in the Mid-City section of Los Angeles and stood in the eastbound lanes, closing portions of the traffic artery for approximately 25 minutes, which prompted a Los Angeles Police Department citywide tactical alert.

The Times also quoted an LAPD spokesman who said that at least one arrest was made after rocks and D-cell batteries were thrown at officers at the corner of Washington Boulevard and 10th Avenue. Police also fired non-lethal rounds at the demonstrators. No injuries were immediately reported.

The city's mayor, Eric Garcetti, took to Twitter to ask city residents to "Exercise [the] 1st Amendment and practice peace in City of Angels tonight."

Early Monday, the Times reported that more than 100 officers in riot gear converged on around 80 protesters in front of the CNN building on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood and made arrests. The protesters had marched to the CNN building from the intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue.

In New York City, more than a thousand people marched into Times Square on Sunday night, zigzagging through Manhattan's streets to avoid police lines. Sign-carrying marchers thronged the busy intersection, chanting "Justice for! Trayvon Martin!" as they made their way from Union Square, blocking traffic for more than an hour before moving on.

Some tempered their anger, saying they didn't contest the jury's decision based on the legal issues involved.

But "while the verdict may be legal, a system that doesn't take into account what happened is a broken legal system," said Jennifer Lue, 24, an Asian-American resident of Harlem.

The New York Police Department said it arrested at least a dozen in the Times Square protest.

At a march and rally in downtown Chicago attended by about 200 people, some said the verdict was symbolic of lingering racism in the United States. Seventy-three-year-old Maya Miller said the case reminded her of the 1955 slaying of Emmitt Till, a 14-year-old from Chicago who was murdered by a group of white men while visiting Mississippi. Till's killing galvanized the civil rights movement.

"Fifty-eight years and nothing's changed," Miller said, pausing to join a chant for "Justice for Trayvon, not one more."

Protesters also gathered in Atlanta, Miami, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C., along with a host of other cities.

In Miami, more than 200 people gathered for a vigil. "You can't justify murder," read one poster. Another read "Don't worry about more riots. Worry about more Zimmermans."

Carol Reitner, 76, of Miami, said she heard about the vigil through an announcement at her church Sunday morning. "I was really devastated. It's really hard to believe that someone can take the life of someone else and walk out of court free," she said.

Fears of mass and violent protests proved unfounded Sunday in South Florida the face of a highly-visible police presence.

"I haven’t seen any evidence of problems yet, and hopefully there won’t be any," Ed Shohat, a Miami-Dade’s Community Relations Board member, told The Miami Herald. "We do not believe (violence) will happen. Frankly, Miami is a … more mature community than … 25, 30 years ago when we had violent reactions to criminal court verdicts."

In Philadelphia, about 700 protesters marched from LOVE Park to the Liberty Bell, alternating between chanting Trayvon Martin's name and "No justice, no peace!"

"We hope this will begin a movement to end discrimination against young black men," said Johnathan Cooper, one of the protest's organizers. "And also to empower black people and get them involved in the system."

In Atlanta, a crowd of about 75 protesters chanted and carried signs near Centennial Olympic Park.

"I came out today because a great deal of injustice has been done and I'm very disappointed at our justice system; I'm just disappointed in America," Tabatha Holley, 19, of Atlanta said.

Civil rights leaders, including the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, urged peace in the wake of the verdict. Jackson said the legal system "failed justice," but violence isn't the answer.

But not all the protesters heeded those calls immediately after the verdict.

In Oakland, Calif., during protests that began late Saturday night some angry demonstrators broke windows, burned U.S. flags and started street fires. Some marchers also vandalized a police squad car and used spray paint to scrawl anti-police graffiti on roads and Alameda County's Davidson courthouse.

Oakland Mayor Jean Quan said Martin's death "raised powerful, incredibly difficult issues" surrounding racial profiling, but she criticized vandals who "dishonored the memory of Trayvon by engaging in violent activities that hurt our growing economy and endangered people."

"We will not tolerate violence in our city," Quan said.

The Oakland demonstration followed a raucous but largely peaceful rally in San Francisco. Police say officers escorted demonstrators as they marched on the city's Mission District. The group was dispersed by 10 p.m.

Meanwhile, Mark O'Mara, who defended Zimmerman at trial, suggested his client’s safety was at risk. "There still is a fringe element that wants revenge," O'Mara said. "They won't listen to a verdict of not guilty."

O'Mara told ABC News that Zimmerman will be entitled to get his Kel Tec 9 pistol back, and his client would likely arm himself again.

"[There's] even more reason now, isn't there? There are a lot of people out there who actually hate him, though they shouldn't," he said.

O'Mara said Zimmerman wears a protective vest when he goes out in public, but he did not wear it in court.



Wonder what will happen when Eric Holder/DoJ goes public that there is no "smoking gun" civil right violation on Zimmerman. Good money someone with a hefty public support going to label him something stupid like being a "sell out" or worse a "Uncle Tom". That would actually piss me off.


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 Ahtman wrote:
 Frazzled wrote:
 Ahtman wrote:
It isn't the magic of the police that stop a riot or civil disobedience, it is a combination of things, including police presence, that do that. You also have people within the groups calling for calmer heads to prevail and the fact that while angry and upset, most people don't want to harm others and just lose control. We just had a thread about how the DoJ was there to help keep these groups peaceful and focused and already we want to dismiss any other influence that isn't a night stick.


Actually if there are 20 people who want to riot and 10 cops with shotguns, there won't be a riot. There may be a large number of shootings and hospital visits, but no riot.

Houston doesn't have riots. See above.


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 Frazzled wrote:
I have .44 mag that keeps the Polar Bears away. Without me Texas would be overrun by 'em. Darn Polar Bears, trying to take our jobs!


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You two Chuckleheads....I have the gang bangers down the road from me telling the opposite side of gang bangers that I own the blocks around my block including the park because I apparently have a bigger arsenal then them. On the plus side they do a lawn care business of all things and for $45 a month they keep my lawn cut and clean

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Well, let's see how many of these riots actually were riots (red) and not riots (green)

 Jihadin wrote:
Quick little run down so far on the "riots"

Most of the protests were peaceful, but some of the most dramatic scenes occurred in Los Angeles, where protesters clashed with police Sunday night and Monday morning, with one group of protesters blocking a major freeway.

Police in Los Angeles said they arrested six people on Monday, mostly for failure to disperse.

The Los Angeles Times reported that a splinter group from a larger protest walked down an on-ramp to the Interstate 10 freeway in the Mid-City section of Los Angeles and stood in the eastbound lanes, closing portions of the traffic artery for approximately 25 minutes, which prompted a Los Angeles Police Department citywide tactical alert.

The Times also quoted an LAPD spokesman who said that at least one arrest was made after rocks and D-cell batteries were thrown at officers at the corner of Washington Boulevard and 10th Avenue. Police also fired non-lethal rounds at the demonstrators. No injuries were immediately reported.

The city's mayor, Eric Garcetti, took to Twitter to ask city residents to "Exercise [the] 1st Amendment and practice peace in City of Angels tonight."

Early Monday, the Times reported that more than 100 officers in riot gear converged on around 80 protesters in front of the CNN building on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood and made arrests. The protesters had marched to the CNN building from the intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue.

In New York City, more than a thousand people marched into Times Square on Sunday night, zigzagging through Manhattan's streets to avoid police lines. Sign-carrying marchers thronged the busy intersection, chanting "Justice for! Trayvon Martin!" as they made their way from Union Square, blocking traffic for more than an hour before moving on.

Some tempered their anger, saying they didn't contest the jury's decision based on the legal issues involved.

But "while the verdict may be legal, a system that doesn't take into account what happened is a broken legal system," said Jennifer Lue, 24, an Asian-American resident of Harlem.

The New York Police Department said it arrested at least a dozen in the Times Square protest.

At a march and rally in downtown Chicago attended by about 200 people, some said the verdict was symbolic of lingering racism in the United States. Seventy-three-year-old Maya Miller said the case reminded her of the 1955 slaying of Emmitt Till, a 14-year-old from Chicago who was murdered by a group of white men while visiting Mississippi. Till's killing galvanized the civil rights movement.

"Fifty-eight years and nothing's changed," Miller said, pausing to join a chant for "Justice for Trayvon, not one more."

Protesters also gathered in Atlanta, Miami, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C., along with a host of other cities.

In Miami, more than 200 people gathered for a vigil. "You can't justify murder," read one poster. Another read "Don't worry about more riots. Worry about more Zimmermans."


Carol Reitner, 76, of Miami, said she heard about the vigil through an announcement at her church Sunday morning. "I was really devastated. It's really hard to believe that someone can take the life of someone else and walk out of court free," she said.

Fears of mass and violent protests proved unfounded Sunday in South Florida the face of a highly-visible police presence.

"I haven’t seen any evidence of problems yet, and hopefully there won’t be any," Ed Shohat, a Miami-Dade’s Community Relations Board member, told The Miami Herald. "We do not believe (violence) will happen. Frankly, Miami is a … more mature community than … 25, 30 years ago when we had violent reactions to criminal court verdicts."

In Philadelphia, about 700 protesters marched from LOVE Park to the Liberty Bell, alternating between chanting Trayvon Martin's name and "No justice, no peace!"

"We hope this will begin a movement to end discrimination against young black men," said Johnathan Cooper, one of the protest's organizers. "And also to empower black people and get them involved in the system."

In Atlanta, a crowd of about 75 protesters chanted and carried signs near Centennial Olympic Park.

"I came out today because a great deal of injustice has been done and I'm very disappointed at our justice system; I'm just disappointed in America," Tabatha Holley, 19, of Atlanta said.

Civil rights leaders, including the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, urged peace in the wake of the verdict. Jackson said the legal system "failed justice," but violence isn't the answer.

But not all the protesters heeded those calls immediately after the verdict.

In Oakland, Calif., during protests that began late Saturday night some angry demonstrators broke windows, burned U.S. flags and started street fires. Some marchers also vandalized a police squad car and used spray paint to scrawl anti-police graffiti on roads and Alameda County's Davidson courthouse.

Oakland Mayor Jean Quan said Martin's death "raised powerful, incredibly difficult issues" surrounding racial profiling, but she criticized vandals who "dishonored the memory of Trayvon by engaging in violent activities that hurt our growing economy and endangered people."

"We will not tolerate violence in our city," Quan said.

The Oakland demonstration followed a raucous but largely peaceful rally in San Francisco. Police say officers escorted demonstrators as they marched on the city's Mission District. The group was dispersed by 10 p.m.

Meanwhile, Mark O'Mara, who defended Zimmerman at trial, suggested his client’s safety was at risk. "There still is a fringe element that wants revenge," O'Mara said. "They won't listen to a verdict of not guilty."

O'Mara told ABC News that Zimmerman will be entitled to get his Kel Tec 9 pistol back, and his client would likely arm himself again.

"[There's] even more reason now, isn't there? There are a lot of people out there who actually hate him, though they shouldn't," he said.

O'Mara said Zimmerman wears a protective vest when he goes out in public, but he did not wear it in court.



So the predicted mass-rioting that will leave cities burn that was announced via Twitter (that I have yet to see any evidence for in this thread) turned out to be some donkey-caves throwing batteries and the city that always riots whenever anybody sneezes having a small riot.

I have seen worse riots following hockey matches in Canada than these race riots that were predicted.

Of course it is interesting that the news station that accused all the other news stations of race baiting was the biggest promoter of "angry black men" rioting.
   
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Wonder what media stations going to be listed on the lawsuit by Zimmerman.....They had a rollercoaster ride with him for a good while....I do believe its his turn to ride

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I'm just sick of all this... this was nothing more than to force fit a narrative, which was all about keeping black voters — and white-guilt liberal voters — in the fold for 2012 and 2014.

Where's the national out rage for this?

How about the enormous black on black crimes in Chicago?

Can we move on?

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 AlmightyWalrus wrote:
Sigh, Swedish media reporting on the case have all gone with the "horrible racism frees evil scumbag murderer" line. Considering the rise of some, in my opinion, unpleasant chaps into the Swedish Parliament and their obsession with how people who call them racists are overreacting I'd really like if the media didn't play straight into their hands, but alas...

The degree to which the media went out of its way to manipulate public perception of this case is pretty astonishing, all told. I understand people being angry; if I'd only ever heard the prosecution's evidence, I'd assume this was a miscarriage of justice, too.
   
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 Jihadin wrote:
Wonder what media stations going to be listed on the lawsuit by Zimmerman.....They had a rollercoaster ride with him for a good while....I do believe its his turn to ride


The FBI reports that showed Z acted with no racial malice will go along way to prove their case against NBC. They defamed his character on a national level, and a federal investigation pretty much cleared him on it. He'll be rich enough to buy everything he needs to make sure no one ever bothers him again.

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 Ahtman wrote:
 Frazzled wrote:
I have .44 mag that keeps the Polar Bears away. Without me Texas would be overrun by 'em. Darn Polar Bears, trying to take our jobs!


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I particularly liked the comparisons going on between this case, and a woman that got 20 years in prison for firing "warning shots" in a stand your ground case. Prosecuted by good friend to George Zimmerman, Special Prosecutor Angela Corey.

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 d-usa wrote:
Well, let's see how many of these riots actually were riots (red) and not riots (green)
...


So are you saying it was a quiet riot?
Sometimes people just have to shout we're not going to take it.

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 Alfndrate wrote:
I particularly liked the comparisons going on between this case, and a woman that got 20 years in prison for firing "warning shots" in a stand your ground case. Prosecuted by good friend to George Zimmerman, Special Prosecutor Angela Corey.


a friend of mine posted a link to that as if it had some meaning


he has been through conceal carry classes the same as me, and he should know better.

"warning shots"

should of took the plea.

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skyfi wrote:
 Alfndrate wrote:
I particularly liked the comparisons going on between this case, and a woman that got 20 years in prison for firing "warning shots" in a stand your ground case. Prosecuted by good friend to George Zimmerman, Special Prosecutor Angela Corey.


a friend of mine posted a link to that as if it had some meaning


he has been through conceal carry classes the same as me, and he should know better.

"warning shots"

should of took the plea.


Should have done what George's lawyers suggested and not gone the Stand Your Ground hearing instead should have gone to trial, I bet she'd be a free woman today..

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 Alfndrate wrote:
skyfi wrote:
 Alfndrate wrote:
I particularly liked the comparisons going on between this case, and a woman that got 20 years in prison for firing "warning shots" in a stand your ground case. Prosecuted by good friend to George Zimmerman, Special Prosecutor Angela Corey.


a friend of mine posted a link to that as if it had some meaning


he has been through conceal carry classes the same as me, and he should know better.

"warning shots"

should of took the plea.


Should have done what George's lawyers suggested and not gone the Stand Your Ground hearing instead should have gone to trial, I bet she'd be a free woman today..


But didn't she like, leave the area and then come back? Anytime you return to the scene of anything, you immediately lose any "empassioned" defense. To return requires planning.....

 
   
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 Alfndrate wrote:
I particularly liked the comparisons going on between this case, and a woman that got 20 years in prison for firing "warning shots" in a stand your ground case. Prosecuted by good friend to George Zimmerman, Special Prosecutor Angela Corey.



Besides the fact that warning shots are basically never legal, part of the problem in that case is that she retreated, retrieved a firearm, and then came back to fire the warning shots.

The biggest problem in that case are the horrendous mandatory minimum sentencing laws, though, which are the reason why she got 20 years for a situation in which nobody was actually hurt (except for her).


The comparisons and arguments that some people are making about the cases on Facebook are weird too. Just because there that woman absolutely should not have gotten a 20 year sentence doesn't mean that Zimmerman should go to prison.

   
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 Hordini wrote:
 Alfndrate wrote:
I particularly liked the comparisons going on between this case, and a woman that got 20 years in prison for firing "warning shots" in a stand your ground case. Prosecuted by good friend to George Zimmerman, Special Prosecutor Angela Corey.



Besides the fact that warning shots are basically never legal, part of the problem in that case is that she retreated, retrieved a firearm, and then came back to fire the warning shots.

The biggest problem in that case are the horrendous mandatory minimum sentencing laws, though, which are the reason why she got 20 years for a situation in which nobody was actually hurt (except for her).


The comparisons and arguments that some people are making about the cases on Facebook are weird too. Just because there that woman absolutely should not have gotten a 20 year sentence doesn't mean that Zimmerman should go to prison.


No no, didn't they tell you! It's not because of mandatory minimum sentences, or that warning shots are basically never legal, it's because the system is rigged because she's black and Zimmerman is a White Hispanic

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 Alfndrate wrote:
skyfi wrote:
 Alfndrate wrote:
I particularly liked the comparisons going on between this case, and a woman that got 20 years in prison for firing "warning shots" in a stand your ground case. Prosecuted by good friend to George Zimmerman, Special Prosecutor Angela Corey.


a friend of mine posted a link to that as if it had some meaning


he has been through conceal carry classes the same as me, and he should know better.

"warning shots"

should of took the plea.


Should have done what George's lawyers suggested and not gone the Stand Your Ground hearing instead should have gone to trial, I bet she'd be a free woman today..



Well, maybe I didn't read the story enough but, if she described them as warning shots, than her case would of failed from the get-go I think.

I'm unaware of any right to anyone, to fire warning shots. Am I wrong on that?

I would also argue that if she felt the threat wasn't so immediate, that she was able to decide to "warn" away husband/boyfriend, as opposed to shooting him dead... than it wasn't much of a threat.. if you thing bodily harm is coming your way, pull the trigger honey, ask for forgiveness, not permission... but if the fella starts yelling and throwing stuff around house, you can't just pop off a few rounds into the ceiling and tell your spouse to cool their crap, that you can get loud too...

The stand your ground defense was just, a bad idea. I think she must of had a bad lawyer?

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And quite frankly, I don't get all the "justice" claims here. Justice was served. It went to trial (even though it shouldn't have). A jury of Americans found acquitted him. I mean, you really cant get it both ways.

 
   
 
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