Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” only works for whites
This is total BS, and unfortunately, totally not surprising.
Florida’s State Attorney is pursuing 60 years behind bars for Marissa Alexander, a Black woman who fired a “warning shot” in the direction of her estranged husband and his two kids.
In August 2010, Alexander’s husband allegedly read messages from her ex on her cell phone and got so enraged that he strangled her neck and threatened to kill her. She grabbed a gun from the garage, where she was stuck inside, and fired a “warning shot” into the air, near where his kids were standing. She did not injure or kill anyone yet she was unsuccessfully able to argue the Stand Your Ground law. An appeals court threw out the case and in November, Marissa was released on bond from her 20-year conviction. Now, State Attorney Angela Corey is seeking 60 years — three times the original sentence — as punishment.
Ms Alexander’s mistake was not murdering her husband in front of her children. But her bigger and more unforgivable mistake was being black. If anyone thinks that “stand your ground” is nothing but a hunting license that white Floridians can use to kill black Floridians, this proves them wrong.
Really? A hunting license? It’s outrageous that she’s being charged but you went a little over the top on this one. She’s being charged with three counts of aggravated assault, 20 years each. It’s NUTS that if he was truly attacking her that she’d be charged in an assault against him. But with kids there it complicates things.
Apparently, her husband initially told police she shot right over his head (and the kids head) and not directly in the air. He later changed his story in his deposition and then switched back later on and admitted he was lying in his deposition. If she shot over the kids heads then she should be charged with assault.
We’ll assume you mean George Zimmerman when you’re referring to these white people. George Zimmerman isn’t white. So calm down on the whole, whites are hunting blacks in Florida.
Am I mistaken or didn’t State Prosecutors take Zimmerman to trial? Yes, yes they did. They didn’t let him walk, they took him to trial. Oh and to boot, it’s the same State Prosecutor, Angela Corey. A jury convicted her, a jury found Zimmerman not guilty. The State of Florida didn’t decide the outcome.
ALSO, a Florida State appeals court threw out the conviction saying that the lower court judge improperly shifted the burden to her and what she must prove. They are re-trying the case, if she is convicted again it will be the same sentence, HOWEVER, “judges must make the sentences consecutive and are not allowed to impose them concurrently.” So her “20 years” she was sentenced to earlier was actually her 60 years just served concurrently. The law in Florida says that they cannot do that.
It will be the same charges. They are not seeking more years. It’s the law, they cannot do anything about it. Your problem is with Florida’s mandatory minimum sentencing requirements not the Stand Your Ground Law and white people using it as a hunting license. Get your facts straight and write an entire article. Don’t just copy and paste parts of an article and act like white people are getting away with killing black people.
Punished for not killing him, had she killed him he could not make up a story. Knowing the State of Florida, it seems that killing a black man doesn’t rise to the level of a crime.
Tom. That’s what the link is for. The bottom line is- don’t be a black person on Florida. I think we can all agree on that much.
This…
“Am I mistaken or didn’t State Prosecutors take Zimmerman to trial? Yes, yes they did. They didn’t let him walk, they took him to trial.”
… is revisionist history. It pretends that Zimmerman was charged and arrested that night and was awaiting trial. But that wasn’t what happened.
Hmmm… would this guy’s “political opponents” be in fear of their life?
Healthy fear that they could be shot?