http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17453849
You complain of being bumf**ked by a Catholic priest and the Church has you castrated to cure you of your homosexuality! 
I read the news today oh boy! Page 708
Quote: Tursiops @ March 21 2012, 11:28 AM GMThttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17453849
You complain of being bumf**ked by a Catholic priest and the Church has you castrated to cure you of your homosexuality!
WTF. I'd look into that car crash as well
Quote: Kevin Murphy @ March 21 2012, 9:30 AM GMTLOL! Only in America!
There was all sorts of prejudice involved in this, apart from the fact the youngster was black so was instantly viewed as up to no good, the neighbourhood watch guy presumed he must be on drugs...WTF? fear may have played a part but to shoot and KILL an unarmed young man?? lets hope this shakes up the gun laws in America and justice is done for the young lad.
Quote: Shandonbelle @ March 21 2012, 12:18 PM GMTlets hope this shakes up the gun laws in America and justice is done for the young lad.
My view is the total opposite. If more and more people knew that trespassing resulted in death, then crime would drop like a stone.
The reason people spent money on living in a gated community was so that gangs of young black men wouldn't be roaming through their back gardens.
The Neighbourhood Watch guy reported 46 suspicious activies to the police in the space of 12 months. People were casing those houses for robbery and home invasion and he reacted strongly and robustly. When he asked the kid to stop and identify himself, the kid pulled up has hood and walked away. Nothing suspicious about that.
By sending out the message that you aren't allowed to defend yourself will get a lot of innocent, law abiding people killed.
If a young white guy took a shortcut through an entirely black neighbourhood at night in Florida and was shot dead, what would your view be?
What if he didn't know he was trespassing?
I just went for a walk though a bunch of farmer's fields. Some of them I know I had right of way through, some I'm not entirely sure. Should I be killed for taking a walk somewhere I didn't know I wasn't supposed to be?
It's patently ridiculous.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ March 21 2012, 1:09 PM GMTMy view is the total opposite. If more and more people knew that trespassing resulted in death, then crime would drop like a stone.
He was taking a shortcut, whether this was a regular byway for him I don't know.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ March 21 2012, 1:09 PM GMTIf a young white guy took a shortcut through an entirely black neighbourhood at night in Florida and was shot dead, what would your view be?
Yeh no doubt those PC lesbian Guardian readers would want them let off.
Quote: zooo @ March 21 2012, 1:12 PM GMTWhat if he didn't know he was trespassing?
I just went for a walk though a bunch of farmer's fields. Some of them I know I had right of way through, some I'm not entirely sure. Should I be killed for taking a walk somewhere I didn't know I wasn't supposed to be?
It's patently ridiculous.
How about if the farm had loads of signs saying 'Warning. Armed security. Do not trespass.'?
How about if you were confronted by a farmer and instead of saying sorry, you just walked off and ignored him and tried to hide your identity?
How about if you lived in a mostly white neighbourhood and you needed gates to keep criminals away and yet they still came into your street?
The neighbourhood watch guy claimed self defence and said his life was in danger. You and the angry mob, have to prove that it wasn't to arrest the man. Some hearsay from his girlfriend and some outraged celebrities is not proof.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ March 21 2012, 1:09 PM GMTMy view is the total opposite. If more and more people knew that trespassing resulted in death, then crime would drop like a stone.
The reason people spent money on living in a gated community was so that gangs of young black men wouldn't be roaming through their back gardens.
The Neighbourhood Watch guy reported 46 suspicious activies to the police in the space of 12 months. People were casing those houses for robbery and home invasion and he reacted strongly and robustly. When he asked the kid to stop and identify himself, the kid pulled up has hood and walked away. Nothing suspicious about that.
By sending out the message that you aren't allowed to defend yourself will get a lot of innocent, law abiding people killed.
If a young white guy took a shortcut through an entirely black neighbourhood at night in Florida and was shot dead, what would your view be?
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This
Quote: youngian @ March 21 2012, 1:16 PM GMTYeh no doubt those PC lesbian Guardian readers would want them let off.
Just like they wanted the rioters to have more lenient sentences?
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ March 21 2012, 1:09 PM GMTThe Neighbourhood Watch guy reported 46 suspicious activies to the police in the space of 12 months. People were casing those houses for robbery and home invasion and he reacted strongly and robustly. When he asked the kid to stop and identify himself, the kid pulled up has hood and walked away. Nothing suspicious about that.
Be that as is may, but that's where having a trigger on hand is a mighty dangerous means of tackling suspicious behaviour, the watchman was suspicios of him because of past experience, but there was no grounds to shoot apart from his own paranoia.
There are some truly worrying people on this board. No need to name them, they know who they are!
Quote: Shandonbelle @ March 21 2012, 1:18 PM GMTBe that as is may, but that's where having a trigger on hand is a mighty dangerous means of tackling suspicious behaviour, the watchman was suspicios of him because of past experience, but there was no grounds to shoot apart from his own paranoia.
No, he claimed that his life was in danger and he thought the teenager was going for a gun. That is the grounds for the shooting.
You have automatically assumed that the neighbourhood watch guy is guilty based on the media. Well done.
Being followed when you're on your own in the dark is scary. The kid was scared of the guy, he said as much to his girlfriend, he was trying to get away from him. Killing an unarmed, innocvent boy because other people had been casing the place out for a robbery is not fair enough.
I used to cut through a little gated community everyday on my walk to uni because it saved me a 30 minute walk all the way around it. I was always very quiet but I knew that other people often weren't when they cut through. I knew it was private property and I shouldn't really have been there, but it was a dangerous area and making my walk longer when I wasn't doing any harm didn't make sense to me. If one of the residents had had enough with drunk students making a racket and decided to make an example of me would that have been ok? Would I deserve to lose my life for taking that shrotcut?
Didn't you all get your facts from the media?