Stand your ground. Another right/law that doesn't apply to black people

[HomerJS]

I've said this for years in ATP&N. Same thing for open carry. IF there is a crime and police show up the first armed black person becomes the suspect.

In June 2020, at the height of racial tension in the country, Wilson fired his handgun at a group of white teens in a truck who were shouting slurs and trying to run Wilson and his family off the road. One of those bullets killed a 17-year-old in the back seat, reports say.
According to Georgia law, a person is justified in using force if they believe that said force is necessary to defend themselves. When self-defense becomes deadly, there’s a question of whether “stand your ground” is justified. However, when you consider how George Zimmerman got away with killing Trayvon Martin, the law was applied to accommodate it.

Family says fatal shooting case shows ‘stand your ground’ defense doesn’t work for Black men (yahoo.com)


Remember the black woman Marissa Alexander who fired a warning shot because her husband threatened her life? Florida wouldn't let her use this defense
Florida Woman In 'Stand Your Ground' Case Accepts Plea Deal : The Two-Way : NPR

Conservatives screaming for their rights refuse to accept those rights are mainly for them.

 

[Moonbeam]

Yup, like I’ve said for years, self hate is transmitted and internalized by fear of remembering being made to feel worthless as children with all of that hate searching endlessly for somebody weaker and more stigmatized to feel safe to dump on. This is why once some segment or subset gets tagged as an object of bigotry, the process becomes self perpetuating.

Unfortunately the cure for hate is love. O loving person needs for other people to suffer for their own inner self hate. All you can do is try to love yourself enough that the attempts to stigmatize fail to have effect.

At some level racism hurts because we have all learned the pain of feeling worthless. It was all a lie. You have a better chance to overcome that yourself for yourself than the before the whole world does.

 

[vi edit]

Something is messed up when an old ass piece of paper gives more rights to the instrument than the person on either end of it.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Seems like a clear double standard.

 

[nickqt]

Stand Your Ground laws aren't really for everyone.

As an after-thought, It protects someone who kills someone else if there is a remotely plausible case that it was in self-defense...unless there is an overwhelming amount of evidence that shows the killer wasn't actually defending themselves. Mix in race, and you better have an overwhelming amount of evidence if you want to prove someone wasn't defending themselves.

Long-term, the laws are essentially just vehicles that will allow our oligarchs' private militaries to avoid civil and criminal liabilities for when they have to put us down for: fill-in-the-blank.

 

[Lezunto]

Stand Your Ground laws aren't really for everyone.

Long-term, the laws are essentially just vehicles that will allow our oligarchs' private militaries to avoid civil and criminal liabilities for when they have to put us down for: fill-in-the-blank.

And those days may not be far off.

 

[woolfe9998]

I don't think this verdict has much to do with the stand your ground law. Self-defense, in any legal form, is not available to a charge of manslaughter, because you cannot accidentally kill someone in self-defense. What actually happened was that the prosecution had initially charged only murder, but in the middle of the trial, when it appeared the jury would likely acquit, the prosecution convinced the judge to add manslaughter as a lesser included offense. One way you get to manslaughter is if a jury decides you honestly believed that your life was at risk - and hence, no malice - but that your belief or your actions were not reasonable under the circumstances. I'd honestly have to know a lot more about the specific facts to render an opinion on that.

In any event, the real controversy is the judge not instructing the jury on the misdemeanor version of manslaughter. That issue is going up on appeal.

 

[ch33zw1z]

I don't think this verdict has much to do with the stand your ground law. Self-defense, in any legal form, is not available to a charge of manslaughter, because you cannot accidentally kill someone in self-defense. What actually happened was that the prosecution had initially charged only murder, but in the middle of the trial, when it appeared the jury would likely acquit, the prosecution convinced the judge to add manslaughter as a lesser included offense. One way you get to manslaughter is if a jury decides you honestly believed that your life was at risk - and hence, no malice - but that your belief or your actions were not reasonable under the circumstances. I'd honestly have to know a lot more about the specific facts to render an opinion on that.

In any event, the real controversy is the judge not instructing the jury on the misdemeanor version of manslaughter. That issue is going up on appeal.

Thanks for the more legal perspective

 

[railer]

No you don't get to murder people just because you're black and then claim "racism". BTW don't you already have your own separate thread related to make-believe racism? Why isn't this anecdote tucked away with all those other stories?

 

[HomerJS]

No you don't get to murder people just because you're black and then claim "racism". BTW don't you already have your own separate thread related to make-believe racism? Why isn't this anecdote tucked away with all those other stories?

Notice your useful review of the evidence jerks trying to run the black guy off the road with their cars

How would you have suggested he defend himself under the given circumstances. Or does he just have to take one for the team?

 

[railer]

Notice your useful review of the evidence jerks trying to run the black guy off the road with their cars

The murderers version of events is usually not the first point of view I go with.

 

[ch33zw1z]

The murderers version of events is usually not the first point of view I go with.

who is the murderer here?

 

[brycejones]

No you don't get to murder people just because you're black and then claim "racism". BTW don't you already have your own separate thread related to make-believe racism? Why isn't this anecdote tucked away with all those other stories?

Its odd what threads you show up in and what positions you take.

Not really, we all now why do you what you do here.

 

[HomerJS]

The murderers version of events is usually not the first point of view I go with.

There was a witness. Marc's girlfriend was in the car with him. You still haven't answered the question. In that situation what is the proper way to defend yourself?

 

[shortylickens]

this isnt news.
Since before we were a nation MOST of our laws were made to protect the rights of white land owning christian males.
The real problem is nothing has changed in hundreds of years. I guess not enough people see it, or not enough people care.

 

[akugami]

No you don't get to murder people just because you're black and then claim "racism". BTW don't you already have your own separate thread related to make-believe racism? Why isn't this anecdote tucked away with all those other stories?

Racism is make-belief? And next you'll tell me Africans were on a pleasure cruise from Africa to America? And just decided to get a job while in America working plantations for shits and giggles?

 

[tweaker2]

Racism is make-belief? And next you'll tell me Africans were on a pleasure cruise from Africa to America? And just decided to get a job while in America working plantations for shits and giggles?

Wait 'til Marg Greene tells us those black folks coming over to America back then came here because they were all booked up on cruises that specialized in catering to job hunting masochists. Well anything other than the truth. As we've all seen, the right wingers are bent on whitewashing history so as to make themselves feel good about their past and present racism, the atrocities they perpetrated in the name of racism and their desire to perpetuate for-profit slavery in early America.

edit - added the word "early"

 

[darkswordsman17]

Racism is make-belief? And next you'll tell me Africans were on a pleasure cruise from Africa to America? And just decided to get a job while in America working plantations for shits and giggles?

Stop, taking, the trollbait.

 

[MrSquished]

Yup, like I’ve said for years, self hate is transmitted and internalized by fear of remembering being made to feel worthless as children with all of that hate searching endlessly for somebody weaker and more stigmatized to feel safe to dump on. This is why once some segment or subset gets tagged as an object of bigotry, the process becomes self perpetuating.

Unfortunately the cure for hate is love. O loving person needs for other people to suffer for their own inner self hate. All you can do is try to love yourself enough that the attempts to stigmatize fail to have effect.

At some level racism hurts because we have all learned the pain of feeling worthless. It was all a lie. You have a better chance to overcome that yourself for yourself than the before the whole world does.

All we have to do is show love to the cops and judges that are persecuting this black man and all will be well!

 

[darkswordsman17]

Stand Your Ground laws aren't really for everyone.

As an after-thought, It protects someone who kills someone else if there is a remotely plausible case that it was in self-defense...unless there is an overwhelming amount of evidence that shows the killer wasn't actually defending themselves. Mix in race, and you better have an overwhelming amount of evidence if you want to prove someone wasn't defending themselves.

Long-term, the laws are essentially just vehicles that will allow our oligarchs' private militaries to avoid civil and criminal liabilities for when they have to put us down for: fill-in-the-blank.

Like way too many laws, they are pretty explicitly used to protect white men.

Stand your ground laws also don't protect white women (if they shoot white men). There's several that are in prison for murder now because they shot stalkers/exes/etc despite seemingly clearly falling under stand your ground.