[quote=squat300]true. so, you’re a prosecutor somewhere and you hear these facts in Florida.
Older black male is out at night on his porch and sees a young white kid walking down the street who is looking for a half pound of marijuana from a dealer he knows. Black male adult knows the white kid doesn’t belong there, and is sick of white kids coming to his neighborhood and fostering the drug trade. Black male adult starts following white kid, who gets freaked out. Black male adult yells “hey you, what the fuck are you doing in my ‘hood? Yeah you, stop and explain what the fuck you are doing here!”
Black male adult corners white teen; teen starts frantically punching the black male. Black male adult is losing the fight when he reaches into his waistband, pulls out a saturday ngiht special and blasts the white kid away. White kid is an honors student in a local white neighborhood who had been accepted to an Ivy League school and was trying to score drugs for a going away party for all his friends, whoa re also goign to ivy league schools.
black male was dressed in gang-like attire; white kid was dressed in preppy button down and khakis and arrived in his physician dad’s lexus.
Question: Is the black guy here as innocent as Zimmerman? Clearly the white kid here was more blameworthy in terms of his criminal intent for being in the location. But what about the black male. We definitely don’t want “feelings” to intrude, only facts…
Bonus points: you’re the prosecutor. Do you think it will be easier to get a conviction on the above facts than on George Z.?[/quote]
Funny, that’s almost the same thing I envisioned except it was the Griswolds taking a wrong turn on their vacation and some black guy asks them if they have drugs in their station wagon then when the Griswolds try to speed away in panic they are all shot dead cause the black guy felt like they were gonna run him over.
