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gateley

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3. But that appears to be what is happening (Zimmerman can't claim that he chased the guy down..." he

Tue Mar 20, 2012, 11:44 PM

Mar 2012

told the 9-11 dispatcher he was following him. The kid had a cell phone and some candy -- how can he claim "that such force was necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another..."

and the #2 you've got highlighted confuses me, so I don't really understand that.

Yes, emotions are high, but I think what's got most of us enraged is how this was handled by the police (no drug/alcohol testing of Zimmerman, no notification of the victim's next of kin) and Zimmerman is, for the moment, off the hook.

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Florida's Make My Day law -- [View all] gateley Mar 2012 OP

The asshole that pushed this bill thru is named Dennis Baxley russspeakeasy Mar 2012 #1

It was a bit hyperbolic there.. X_Digger Mar 2012 #2

But that appears to be what is happening (Zimmerman can't claim that he chased the guy down..." he gateley Mar 2012 #3

No doubt.. but it's the police's cock-up here.. X_Digger Mar 2012 #5

You'd think the police would be scrambling to do SOMETHING with all this national gateley Mar 2012 #8

Well, now they're between a rock and a hard place. X_Digger Mar 2012 #10

Still big enough wholes to drive a truck thru. safeinOhio Mar 2012 #4

That part of the law isn't new, and hasn't been overly problematic. X_Digger Mar 2012 #6

In most cases it becomes the alive shooters word over safeinOhio Mar 2012 #7

Word of the alive shooter versus the totality of the evidence. X_Digger Mar 2012 #9

The relevance to MM piece is safeinOhio Mar 2012 #12

Zimmerman Go Vols Mar 2012 #11