[neverdem]

Unless Martin’s killer, George Zimmerman, had reason to believe that Martin was armed, shooting him was a grossly disproportionate response to a fistfight, even leaving aside the fact that Zimmerman had initiated the encounter.

Martin started the violence, and a witness said he was slamming Zimmerman's head into to the ground, IIRC. Concrete would explain the lacerations supposedly on the back of Zimmerman's head. Regardless, I posted the essay for the stunning statistics.

[Netizen]

Lots of comments on this other thread.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2866283/posts

[GOPJ]

...in New York City. Blacks commit 80 percent of all shootings in the city — as reported by the victims of and witnesses to those shootings — though they are but 23 percent of the population; whites commit 1.4 percent of all shootings, though they are 35 percent of the population. Add Hispanic shootings to the black tally, and you account for 98 percent of all of the city’s gun violence. In New York, as in big cities across the country, the face of violence is overwhelmingly black and Hispanic.

Ping. Skip the first paragraph and this article is pure gold.

[x]

Government and agitation and having a Black (or Black-White) president aren't going to change things in the 'hood.

Therefore, things like this get demagogued by the government and the agitators and the president to justify their position and power to the Black community.

If Obama plays things like this up he doesn't have to worry about the African-American vote, whatever else he does.

If Sharpton doesn't play this up, he loses his influence (and he wouldn't be Sharpton).

[Talisker]

Unless Martin’s killer, George Zimmerman, had reason to believe that Martin was armed, shooting him was a grossly disproportionate response to a fistfight, even leaving aside the fact that Zimmerman had initiated the encounter.

Heather Mac Donald is a moral whore.

[what's up]

Blacks commit 80 percent of all shootings in the city — as reported by the victims of and witnesses to those shootings — though they are but 23 percent of the population; whites commit 1.4 percent of all shootings, though they are 35 percent of the population. Add Hispanic shootings to the black tally, and you account for 98 percent of all of the city’s gun violence

23% + 35% = 60%.

So what race is the other 40%. Hispanics (or are they white now)? Mixed?

[lentulusgracchus]

(Article) The fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin last month by a neighborhood-watch volunteer was a sickening and — unless new facts come to light — unjustified loss of an innocent life. Unless Martin’s killer, George Zimmerman, had reason to believe that Martin was armed, shooting him was a grossly disproportionate response to a fistfight....

Oh, look -- liberals writing in National Review now.

I don't think Bill Buckley or William Rusher would have written that.

[bert]

The incident is not a tragedy

The death was not unjustified

Killing an attacker in self defense is fully justified

[goodnesswins]

Bfl