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....
(Excerpt) Read more at theroot.com ...
Wow! Is he talking about the 10 year old Trayvon? Certainly, he is not talking about the thug-in-training Trayvon.
There would have been less evidence...
Formerly of Newsday, Payne began writing his column in 1981. The former Associate Editor was responsible for national/foreign and health & science news at the paper; he also served as the paper’s New York Editor.As a recovering Long Islander, I stipulate that the name “Les Payne” constitutes a barf alert for any knowledgable reader.http://www.newsday.com/columnists/les-payne
On the substance, Payne would have a perfect analogy - if the young Mr. Martin had been 5’ 2” instead of 6’ 2” . . .
and what if it had been about collecting beanie babies?
geez leftists are stOOpid
and what if it had been about collecting beanie babies?
geez leftists are stOOpid
and what if it had been about collecting beanie babies?
geez leftists are stOOpid
When assaulted or raped, the assaulted woman has right to self-defense,and it does not matter who provoked it. The same analogy would apply to Zimmerman, a man who was being physically assaulted and had to kill TM in self-defense, a right that Zimmerman had no matter who provoked the attack. Now this race-baiter is trying to spin it up side down, and apply the analogy to TM, as the one who was acting in self-defense under attack from Zimmerman, the facts and evidence be damned.
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