Quote:
Originally Posted by graciegirl
I don't know how I feel about this case. My family told us kids not to be where someone could misinterpret your actions, like in a dark alley in the middle of the night. And stay away from trouble and trouble will stay away from you.
I don't know what profiling really means, jumping to judgment based on a persons appearance and whereabouts? I don't know. But I just wish they had both ended up with black eyes and broken noses and continued on their lives wherever their lives were taking them.
I don't know what I would have thought if I ran into George Zimmerman with a gun in the dark or he ran into me with a hoody and something in my hand in the middle of the night.
I just don't know what to think.
We all react dramatically different in the dark when we are alarmed than when we are at the breakfast table.
Overkill is very deep word.
|
Where in the Cinci burbs were you residing when the Cincinnati riots were going on?
We had been made aware of the situation long before we left Vermont......but it's very different when one is in the thick of things, living in or near Cincinnati.
We had the misfortune of getting "lost" in Cinci enroute to our son's home when he was working at Proctor and Gamble right out of grad school.
We were a bit frightened ourselves. We definitely had taken the wrong exit.
I can totally comprehend George's fear for his life.
We also can remember from our "youth" the climate surrounding the riots in Newark, New Jersey with the crime in its aftermath..........many people became hyper vigilant. That was the 1960's.
Now it's Detroit and Chicago with the crime problems.
We predict George will either be acquitted.....or face some lesser charge.
He carried the gun with a permit. He feared for his life. The kid was taller than he was and banging his head into the ground.
Had he not been suspended from his own high school, the young man would not have been in Sanford Florida with his dad and the dad's girlfriend. I think they should use the marijuana in his system.....in their closing arguments. Drugs can change a person's personality. Everyone is different.
We've had more than a few druggie types infiltrate our town.
Thankfully, our police chief is doing a great job...........