Trayvon Martin Vs. Stand Your Ground Law

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17-year-old Trayvon Martin is stalked and murdered by self-elected neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman. About a month later, friends of George Zimmerman and Zimmerman allege Trayvon Martin had assaulted Zimmerman, leaving Zimmerman bruised and bleeding, and Zimmerman had shot and killed Trayvon Martin in self-defense; citing Florida’s dubious Stand Your Ground Law. Video clips showing George Zimmerman in custody of law officers shortly after the murder of Trayvon Martin shows no bruises or blood on George Zimmerman. George Zimmerman was released after briefly held in custody. Recorded conversation between 911 agent and George Zimmerman reveal an amicable relationship between 911 agent and Zimmerman who is known to report to 911 frequently, but no report of allege assault by Trayvon Martin on George Zimmerman even up to moment of gunshot. Florida’s Stand Your Ground Law gives a person the right to use deadly force, if attacked where a person has legal right to be. Interestingly, George Zimmerman is said to be a criminal justice scholar, and I am still trying to figure how it is that any average or sane criminal justice scholar would fail to understand that stalking is an offense. The Stand Your Ground Law does not give a license to kill people unprovoked. On March 26, then attorney for George Zimmerman suddenly alleged 17-year-old Trayvon Martin had attacked gun-toting George Zimmerman, resulting in the stalking death of Trayvon Martin. One has to be a total imbecile to come up with the allegation that a young Black male in the US had in fact walked up to a White male with a gun and attacked the white male unprovoked. If anyone in this case had legit claim to Stand Your Ground Law, then it was Trayvon Martin, who was stalked and unjustly harassed for being where he had legal right to be: On public easement. I believe in defending myself, my family and my property, but have no right to harass and/or unjustly take the life of anyone merely using a public easement. Florida’s Stand Your Ground Law gives no license to kill people unprovoked. And while such self-defense laws are permissible, all actors invoking such laws bear the burden of proof. People need to know when to pick a fight: An instigator cannot so quickly invoke self-defense - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sccaTPPFCk I am of the opinion that George Zimmer is either a simpleton, is very stupid, or is just plain hate-driven. In any case, I think George Zimmerman is more likely a simpleton and was directly or indirectly coached to harass people by those around him who knew of his mental state. Thus, the coaches of George Zimmerman - State of Florida, Sanford police department, Gun Licensing Department (who all deputized mentally disabled Zimmerman) and his parents who failed to restrain a mentally disabled child – should be held liable for the murder of Trayvon Martin. No one should be deserving of death for merely walking down the streets of the US, or streets of any nation in Planet Earth. Several days after the Trayvon Martin case went viral, prominent TV host Geraldo Rivera said Trayvon Martin had caused his own death by wearing a hoodie: If you look like a gangster, then you asked for it, Geraldo Rivera said. I guess by Geraldo Rivera’s reasoning, a woman wearing a miniskirt deserves to be rape, and non-conformists with minds of their own should all be annihilated. Let me seize this opportunity to here inject that I am also aware that there exists a very tense relationship between Blacks and Hispanics, especially in the South, and some people intentionally take advantage of this situation and pitch these groups against each other. While all good humans are enraged at the murder of anyone just walking down a US street, I here again plead with the Black Panthers to refrain from inciting more atrocity: If there ought to be a bounty for the Trayvon Martin case, then the bounty should be on the State of Florida, AG of Florida, Sanford, the DA’s office and Gun Licensing department. And I wish Ms. Martin, mother of Trayvon Martin, would stop running her mouth, go home and mourn her son. Whatever Trayvon Martin was, he did not deserve death for merely taking a walk on a public easement. Woman, this is a crime against society and you, Ms. Martin, should zip up and go home to lament your son, or at least his pleasant memories. The State of Florida and Sanford do not need public outrage to act on a matter so clearly challenging an issue of law. Unless, of course, wannabe cop George Zimmerman had in fact been deputized and coached to harass and murder people his society deems a nuisance. “You can fool some people sometimes, but you can’t fool all the people all of the time.” Brief History of George Zimmerman - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/12/george-zimmerman-trayvon-martin_n_1340358.html