Posted on 07/29/2013 10:22:10 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The mother of Trayvon Martin said Monday that she believed Florida’s Stand Your Ground law played a role in her son’s shooting death, but she wasn’t ready to support a boycott of the state for not changing the self-defense law.
“The thing about this law is I just think it assisted the person who killed my son to get away with murder,” Sybrina Fulton, the mother of the 17-year-old from Miami Gardens, said at a National Bar Association event in Miami Beach.
“I think we have to change these laws so people don’t get away with murder,” she said, adding that her son was unarmed and peacefully walking back to his dad’s place when he was initially pursued by George Zimmerman.
Zimmerman successfully pleaded self defense in the killing. A jury acquitted him on July 13 in Sanford.
But the exact role of Stand Your Ground in the case isn’t clear. Only two jurors have spoken up to CNN and ABC, and just one referenced the law, which allows a person to more easily use deadly force without having to first retreat in a confrontation.
Zimmerman’s legal team didn’t focus on mounting a Stand Your Ground defense, however, saying that a common self-defense justification was all the 29-year-old man needed because he reasonably feared that Trayvon, who jumped him, was going to gravely injure him during a fistfight.
The National Bar Association, echoing calls from the Dream Defenders protestors occupying a part of Gov. Rick Scott’s office in the state Capitol, has called on Florida lawmakers to repeal or amend the law....
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
Brilliant analogy. That is what they are doing........otherwise if a black yute starts beating the hell out of a cracker, TRAYVONS LAW, immediately goes into affect. Do not open mouth, lay down, attempt to cover head and wait until the drug addled black kid is finished with you. If death occurs, it was self defense because whitey looked at youth funny.
The libs are way ahead of this - they were writing this over a year ago. Damn.
http://www.salon.com/2012/04/18/long_time_coming_trayvons_law/
Can’t wait for a white person to invoke Trayvon’s Law. Lol
No offense, but how dumb or ignorant can this lady be....SYG NEVER came up.
Again Traymom, Zimmerman prevented a murder. His own.
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You have something there! Plus when had Trayvon ever lived before in a community with neighborhood watch volunteers? This was completely alien to him. Also Tray not being too bright and all. Also with his drugged out mind. He took Zimnmerman as an aggressor so Tray made a sneaky preemptive strike
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