[Blueflag]

Race doesn’t matter here. Facts do. What happen and why/how is what the jury needs to know.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I’ll bet she was on her way to get some “Skillets candy” and Arizona Iced Tea.

[COBOL2Java]

"Not guilty!"

[OneWingedShark]

Self defense is self defense; race makes no impact.
Unless there’s reason to doubt the woman, like say the witness, she ought to be let go, IMO.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I lived in Houston for ten years, and had the misfortune of getting in the vicinity of some extremely violent, hostile, big, fat black wimmens in public places.

You put your life at risk by merely making eye contact with them.

"Stand your ground," my ass.

[EGPWS]

“If she feared for her life or something, why didn’t she just drive off?"

Good question.

A CCW and stand your ground give you the right to use a sidearm IF you have no other alternative to save your life.

[Sacajaweau]

It almost sounds like he was trying to help her out of the car....I’ll bet she has plenty of accidents....and how many women do you know that carry a gun that is at the ready.

[albionin]

The girlfriend sounds like a real dim bulb. She says he wasn’t aggressive but she wasn’t there. Then she says she doesn’t want to judge but that she wants justice.

[Tijeras_Slim]

I’m sure the New White Panther Party will put a bounty on her head.

[Jyotishi]

For some reason the Zimmerman-Trayvon case comes to mind.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

The driver’s window glass will tell. If it was broken by blunt force from outside, she wins; if it was broken by a bullet on the way out, she just gunned him down.

Tactically he made a mistake that policemen are careful to avoid. When approaching a car to talk to a driver, you always stop about 15 degrees behind their left shoulder, so you are a much harder target for them to shoot than if you are right by their window.

[a fool in paradise]

“[She] got involved in road rage with an individual who wrecked her car, followed her into a gas station and jumped out of his car and began attacking her car,” she said.

The road rage occurred on the road, I take it, and not "in the parking lot".

It's a he said/she said/he's dead situation until we hear from the deceased's passenger and sort the information out.

She says he hit her car. Who failed to yield right of way in traffic? Did he or she speed up and hit a horn instead of yielding to the other car (when pulling out of a driveway/yield/lane change)?

He "followed" her to a gas station. I wouldn't call that stalking. If he "hit" her car, he'd have to exchange information or else be cited with hit and run.

[a fool in paradise]

Alleging that Ables broke the driver’s side window of Scott’s car, Quiñones cited this as evidence of the ferocity of the attack.

In the ABC 13 account, I thought she fired through the window. Which was it? He broke it or she did? Or did he break it and then she shot through the open frame?

[a fool in paradise]

An eyewitness, who appeared on camera but has requested anonymity, said that he did not hear any threat in the seconds before Scott killed Ables. The witness was pumping gas and standing 15 feet away from Ables when a bullet ricocheted past him and struck his car. The bullet left a noticeable impression on the witness’s car.

It's dangerous to be pumping gas and have bullets whizzing past you. Even Michelle has said it is dangerous for Barack to pump gas. Apparently even civilians in Houston have to watch out.

[PJBankard]

An eyewitness, who appeared on camera but has requested anonymity, said that he did not hear any threat in the seconds before Scott killed Ables. The witness was pumping gas and standing 15 feet away from Ables when a bullet ricocheted past him and struck his car. The bullet left a noticeable impression on the witness’s car.

I'm sure that says enough.

[vpintheak]

If Obama had a son....

[EricT.]

Dude was an angry douchebag and it got him killed.

Give her the gun back and send her on her way home.

[Gay State Conservative]

Assuming there's no film of the incident and no eyewitnesses you look at the physical evidence...prints,blood,etc,etc,etc.etc and you look at their backgrounds.If one has a dirty history and the other clean then the dirty one was was probably in the wrong.

Unless there's something I'm missing here this one's very similar to a more famous recent case.

[Windflier]

For the record, you’re allowed to post a 300 word excerpt from any source on FR’s green light list.

It’s hard to get a conversation started with just a teaser, and lots of folks will give you grief for posting a cliffhanger like that.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Assuming the report of the incident is accurate(a dangerous assumption now days!)The statement of the witness turns guilt or innocence into a question of fact.