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Originally Posted by senior citizen
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...........
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Senior,
If you had read to the end of this thread you would see that my opinion had changed over time as the information in the trial was presented. At the beginning, I was TRYING to place my self in a non judgmental position. But as the information has presented itself, I have changed my mind and feel that Trayvon Martin did attack George Zimmerman. You responded to one of my earlier posts on this matter.
I am aware of riots. And of fear. And of the climate of the downtown area of Cincinnati changing over time. Long ago the area called "Over the Rhine" in downtown Cincinnati, once a lovely place inhabited by hard working German immigrants has now become a place to be feared to drive in at night. There is a drug culture there and bad things happening and people murdering each other over drugs. I remember reading in The Cincinnati Enquirer a long time ago that we were on the drug corridor and that Detroit was being overrun by drug users and drug dealers and they were coming our way.
I wish that the young men could find jobs they liked and wanted to work hard to find success and not be lured by the dangerous life of easy money dealing drugs. Each year the Cincinnati Enquirer shows the people murdered downtown. They are mostly young men and have killed each other in the same ugly business.
It is hard not to jump to conclusions when you see an expensive car parked way off in the corner of a Kroger's parking lot in suburbia with a young man sitting inside in the middle of the day and see people coming and going from the car.
I guess that is profiling.
It is a terrible thing to grow old and jump to conclusions and to grow out of the trust and kindness and fairness of youth.