Posted on 07/18/2013 12:55:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Englewood Fire Chief, Gerald Marion says he's, 'fed up' with seemingly endless stories of blacks being killed by whites with little or no repercussions.
Gerald Marion has spent his career fighting fires, not racial injustice. The lifelong Englewood resident rose through the ranks and became the city’s second black fire chief, earning a reputation as a calm, steadfast advocate for his department who stayed out of the political fray. But Marion reached a breaking point on Saturday, when a Florida jury acquitted George Zimmerman in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager, during a confrontation in a gated community. The chief entered the racially charged controversy surrounding the verdict this week, when he asked the City Council to boycott businesses in Florida and other states with “stand-your-ground” laws, which eliminate the legal requirement to retreat before people can defend themselves — with deadly force if necessary — if they believe someone is trying to kill or seriously harm them. “I’ve never been an activist,” the 46-year-old said. “I’m fed up. It should not be a law that you get to murder because you’re uncomfortable.” Marion, a firefighter for 24 years, said stand-your-ground laws disproportionately affect blacks, especially when law enforcement and others assume black youths have criminal intent while white youths get the benefit of the doubt. “We read the news every day and you’re always coming across a story … an African-American gets shot because the shooter was threatened by their presence or the shooter was reacting to a stereotype,” he said. “It could be me. It could be my son. It could be my nephew.” Marion may be the first public official in Bergen County, if not New Jersey, to ask a local government to shun Florida businesses in the wake of the verdict.....
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Good. Stay out of Texas.
A good first step would be ending so-called impact fees (unconstitutional taxes) for fire departments.
Any group of humans can have assholes in it. Even fire fighters............
Be careful what you wish for “Chief”. What goes around comes around and peopel could boycot your fair city as well. Having been there, who would miss going there?
Doesn’t that go against “fair trade” practices? The fire chief is in charge of procurement?
We’re honkies and they’re negroes.
But we know that it's so much easier to be a lefty because you don't have to rationalize or do logic and stuff.
Englewood Fire Department
Gerald Marion - Chief of Department
gmarion@cityofenglewood.org
All I can say is “You go girl”!
The planters should have exclaimed “Let’s Pick Our Own Cotton!”...
...agreed, but it would’ve made more sense for them to have actually dig into their pockets and paid someone to pick the cotton for them,instead of importing hordes of Stone Age tribespeople just for the cheap labor...the inevitable emancipation then loosed the entirely unprepared and ignorant culture into the civilization at large...such a debt of gratitude we owe those cotton planters...
No one gives a crap. Half of New Jersey is moving the hell out anyway.....
Got that right. My neighbor told me her son lives in New Jersey and that his combined property taxes are $19,000 A YEAR! Seems that guy ought to boycott New Jersey.
Good point!
“We have seen the enemy, and he is us!”
For allowing this to happen in America.
Roger that!
Gerald Marion says he’s, ‘fed up’ with seemingly endless stories of blacks being killed by whites with little or no repercussions.
Show me even ONE! Blacks have special protection s under the law and although this may have happened at one time kt does not anymore.
Excellent points, Irish!
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