Posted on 03/09/2014 6:20:29 AM PDT by rellimpank
The mother of Trayvon Martin is on a mission. Her goal is to change the current "stand your ground" laws because these laws may make it more palatable for shooters to kill the person they are "scared of" rather than fire a warning shot.
Sybrina Fulton, 48, rarely grants interviews, but she told me last week that under current "stand your ground" laws, accountability is lost. Several cases show that if you kill the person because you claim you feared for your life, then you have a good chance to walk. But if you fire a warning shot to protect yourself, you could face up to 60 years in prison.
That's absurd; we need some common sense here.
Fulton said since her son was killed, she doesn't sleep much and her life has been flipped upside down. Before Feb. 26, 2012, Fulton said, she was just a "regular mom" who worked for the Miami Dade Housing Agency by developing educational programs for people living in Section 8 housing.
"My life was regular. I lived in a regular house, drove a regular car and my life was my kids. We took one vacation a year and worked hard," she said. "But after my son was killed, my family was thrust into the national spotlight."
Martin, 17, was walking to his father's home in Sanford, Fla., when he was approached, followed and later killed by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman. Zimmerman thought Martin "looked suspicious."
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“Police are taught to never fire warning shots or to shoot to wound; they are taught that if life is in danger and shots must be fired to protect life then they must make the surest shot to stop the danger, namely a center-mass shot.”
You don’t know them, admittedly and then you rely on what is reported? Are you serious? How about doing a little journalism on your own, independently, and figure out the missing little details “they” forgot to report to you.
Then get back to us.
Corey’s office is here in JAX. She was hand picked by Atty Gen Bondi to refer to Gov. Scott to bring in an outside prosecutor in an attempt to placate the “masses” who were demonstrating because the race pimps told them to. Little did they know, or maybe they did in some degree, what a loose cannon she is.
I'm familiar with that case. I don't think the jury thought Marissa Alexander fired a warning shot into the wall near her husband's head. I think they decided she meant to hit him and missed, and then claimed it was a warning shot.
I foresee her trying to milk this for $$$ for as long as she can. Beats working. Even in her old government job.
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