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Originally Posted by valo403
1. Who exactly has been charged with a hate crime?
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Go back and take a look at all of these reports today that are crying out to charge Zimmerman with hate crimes, you even have prosecutors talking about it in the media. I didn't say that he had been, and if it came off that way I apologize for that.
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2. Interesting that you're willing to jump to conclusions and believe select bits of evidence when they agree with how you've decided that this scenario played out.
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What? I don't believe that I've reached a conslusion on anything, I can't reach a conclusion until this thing hits a court and everything comes out. I have a theory, that's a whole different thing, maybe I should change my post from "I think" to I have a theory.
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Even if I believe that Zimmerman has a torn shirt and was 'charged' are you seriously sitting there and suggesting that fighting back against a psychopath who comes at you with a gun is a bad decision? You would have just stood there and took it? I find that incredibly hard to believe. You have no idea when the gun entered the equation, you have no idea who charged who, and actually none of us do because we're dealing with a police force that took a 'nothing to see here' approach to the death of a 17 year old boy walking home from the store.
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Your adding in a lot of after the fact data hoss, your saying that the police should have been prejudged by the victim?
Your labeling the shooter as a psychopath, but you don't know that and I don't know that, and again I agree with you, we don't know what happened.
I'm not saying that there is a nothing to see here case, I don't know where the hell you got that from, but to me this has become a battle between the media, special interest groups and the justice system more then anything else. We don't have the facts, and I will admit that I mis stated my OPINION that this wasn't a hate crime, it was stupidity and probably stupidity on both sides.
If anything I theorize, think, that at this point this isn't a debate about racial issues, and about hate crimes as much as it should be a debate about gun control, and neighbourhood vigilatism and the stupidity of the stand fast law and its interpretation.