Posted on 03/26/2012 6:16:42 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
The parents of a Florida teen who was killed by a neighborhood watch volunteer in February will attend a House hearing on racial profiling and Florida’s controversial “Stand Your Ground” law Tuesday.
According to a report by the Huffington Post, the parents of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin will attend a special forum hosted by Judiciary ranking member John Conyers (D-Mich.) on Tuesday. The forum, which will also include other members of the Congressional Black Caucus as well as other minority Members of Congress, will look into not only Martin’s death but also racial profiling and federal hate crime laws.
The forum will also discuss Florida’s Stand Your Ground law, a controversial measure that allows armed civilians to use deadly force when they feel they are in danger of imminent — but not necessarily lethal — harm, rather than attempting to flee.
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It’ll be a circus, count on it!
Oh I have. This kid looks and writes like the typical drug dealing gangster. Got his gold capped teeth, tats, etc.
I see absolutely nothing about this Trayvon person to celebrate at all. He appears to everything you wouldn’t want to raise a child to be like.
They should invite Tawana Brawley and Crystal Mangum.
It wasn't a hate crime.
It was self defense and does not fall into the "stand your ground" category.
And since when do feds visit state laws??
This is the business of Congress because???????
Black caucus acting stupidly. Again.
Obama NEEDS more black kids to die, preferably at the hands of whites, though he’ll take the odd Hispanic now and then. White guilt got him elected once, and only white guilt will get him reelected.
ABC News / Good Morning America identified a minor witness to a deadly shooting…do you think they might receive some intimidation? Do they care? Or, is it the goal?
Quote:
“In addition, an eyewitness, 13-year-old Austin Brown, told police he saw a man fitting Zimmerman’s description lying on the grass moaning and crying for help just seconds before he heard the gunshot that killed Martin.”
Link:
http://gma.yahoo.com/trayvon-martin-shooter-told-cops-teenager-went-gun-030349812—abc-news.html
Whaddya mean?
There are votes to drum up.
There is a distraction to conjure up, to divert attention away from gasoline prices.
There is phony outrage to be expressed, all in the service of re-electing Jug Ears.
Now the House Rats have to get in on it. Do they think that by dividing the country even further along racdial lines they will fix ANYTHING.
Heading to The Hill...invited,no doubt,by Osama Obama Victory Headquarters.
well Obama personally gave each victim of the Afghanistan shooting $50,000.00
It’s more ammo from Wal-Mart time.
Gonna be a long hot summer.
This is getting way out of hand. Eventually people are going to get sick of this crap of the feds telling states what laws they can and cannot pass. That used to be up to the supreme court.
George Zimmerman's friend Joe Oliver, a black man, speaks as if he is uncertain if Zimmerman pulled the trigger. Zimmerman has been told not to speak out before the grand jury meets--and Oliver feels bound not to say some of the things he knows about what happened.
Is there a comparable law to Stand Your Ground in Michigan?
The media also needs to be reminded of that farce and the role they played in hyping the incident.
Yeah you can stand your ground in Michigan anywhere you can legally carry a gun.
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