Posted on 05/27/2012 10:01:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The blame-the-victim treatment isn't right in sexual assault. It's not right in killings, either.
Consider this scenario: Aroused by an attractive teenager in a halter top walking through his neighborhood, a Sanford, Fla., man was instructed to stand down by police, but instead he provoked an encounter that ended tragically with the assault and rape of the 17-year-old girl.
After showing authorities scratches on his face and arms that he claimed were inflicted by the rape victim, the pursuer was promptly released by the local police chief that night after discussions with the detained man's father, who is a retired judge.
Sound familiar?
This scenario, minus the complicating race factor, approximates the rough outline of what we've learned about George Zimmerman's encounter with Trayvon Martin on Feb. 26. Contrary to distracting media accounts, the "Stand your ground" law is clearly not applicable to Zimmerman here because he ignored police instructions and advanced on Trayvon's ground. The ordinance may well apply instead to the victim's reaction to a man moving toward him with a Kel-Tec PF-9 9 mm pistol.
Though the hypothetical rape tragedy described here is not lethal, as it was in Trayvon's case, the "arousal" motive is similar, the execution approximate; and the behavior by officials should be no less troubling to those concerned about judicial fairness in a civil society.
Cops in both the real and hypothetical cases gave the aroused pursuer the benefit of every doubt and, in the Trayvon incident, initially dismissed the victim's defenders as frivolous petitioners, lacking the attacker's connection to city hall and police headquarters....
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I tried to post, looks like they discourage debate.
It’s “a hundred and eighty degrees out of phase”.
Z is in a position analogous to a woman who has shot and killed an alleged assailant.
Debate? What’s there to debate? White Hispanic George “Skinhead” Zimmerman profiled, hunted down and executed Trayvon “10 year old choirboy” Martin, PERIOD! Just ask Big Al or Mumbling Ben.
What If Trayvon’s Case Had Been About Cannibalism?
aka Less Pain
This straw man is missing a hat.
That is the way i see it. Mr. Zimmerman is the one who was assaulted and he defended himself.
Lol
Imagine if you will Mr. Payne if let us say a black female was on neighborhood watch and saw an unfamiliar white person wearing a tea party shirt walking through the ‘hood and she called the police and said “I think we have a white boy lost in the hood actin’ suspicious.” The police dispatcher then advised her to hold tight but she followed anyway. The next thing you know, the white guy was seen on top of the black female violently bashing her head into the ground “MMA style” and she, by the grace of god had a concealed carry permit and exercised her right of self defense and she fired one round and close range (after screaming for help) killing the white person.
See, Mr. Payne, it is easy to play this game.
Contrary to distracting media accounts, the “Stand your ground” law is clearly not applicable to Zimmerman here because he ignored police instructions and advanced on Trayvon’s ground. The ordinance may well apply instead to the victim’s reaction to a man moving toward him with a Kel-Tec PF-9 9 mm pistol.
Well! Talk about twisting the known facts in the case. But I can be pretty well assured that the real facts are indeed the opposite of everything that is in this sentence.
And the part about moving toward Martin with a pistol. It is subtly presented here as Zimmerman holding the pistol in his hand instead of concealed in it’s holster.
The writer must have done very well in his creative writing/journalism course.
You know these folks, trying to twist things to come up with a "logical" reason why geaorge is guilty, are just sick at heart when they see how much twisting they have to do to come up with something that makes no sense. They all know George was defending himself, Trayvon took actions that got him killed, and they keep on wishing it wasn't so - it makes them see a bit of reality through the sickness and they can't stand reality.
Trayvon’s ground? What?
Point is Trayvon was the major source of reasonable suspicion, probable cause and interference throughout this ordeal.
A 911 operator NOT on the scene is not the final manager and decider or responsible “REMOTE CONTROL” operator of what was going on.
This whole case is completely stupid except that self defense laws are being under attack because no one should investigate or be in the know than the government, according to these loonies.
There is something called balance of powers and citizens arrest for a good reason.
This should be a civil issue between government and their hiring system, not a criminal issue.
However, a criminal bullying inquiry is needed in order to create the shakedown.
This is insane.
Why would the aroused man have been on the phone with the cops?
You have violated posting protocol by not placing a barf alert in parentheses after the title.
Now I have to clean off my keyboard.
To be commensurate with this analogy, Trayvon would have to had provided oral and then mounted Zimmerman. Only after the money shot would Trayvon have claimed rape.
The entire premise is stinking bovine excrement.
Well Aileen Carol Wuornos got the needle.
That makes Trayvon the instigator.
All the evidence points toward Trayvon being the aggressor
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