Please promise me this...

[Nine]

If I am ever walking alone at night in my own neighborhood, and an armed man starts following me in his car, and then gets out of his car and follows me by foot, and then chases me when I run away, and then catches up with me, and I am unarmed, and I'm 17, and I don't have a criminal record, and I wasn't in the process of committing any crime, and the man who chased me has a history of violence including against a police officer, and he was heard to have called me a derogatory name under his breath right before he started chasing me, and I end up dead minutes later with a bullet through my chest although no one saw exactly what happened during that brief time, and the man who shot me claims he had to do it because otherwise I might have killed him with my bare hands, and he's scuffed up a bit but appears fine for the most part, and he chooses not to get medical treatment, and the police decide to accept this man's claim that I was going to kill him, and they don't arrest him, and they don't test him for drugs, and they don't bother to do much investigating, until finally a month later my grieving parents have managed to drum up enough public pressure that the police finally do start investigating and an arrest is made, and I have none of my killer's DNA under my fingernails during the autopsy, and I have no wounds on my knuckles except for a minuscule abrasion on my left ring finger...

Please, please, please make sure you give my killer the benefit of the doubt as to what occurred during those missing minutes. Please remember that no one in the history of America was ever put away for a crime unless there were witnesses or video documenting that crime as it occurred in real time.

Did I leave anything out?

[Happyhippychick]

1. Yes, the part where you asked for it and were judged for what you wore.

Love your post!

[Nine]

4. true, but I thought Obamanut already covered that nicely :)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002700580

[malaise]

2. Great post

Rec

[HopeHoops]

3. That's why you should never leave the house without a fully loaded AK-47.

[Scuba]

5. Your assertion that ...

... "no one in the history of America was ever put away for a crime unless there were witnesses or video documenting that crime as it occurred in real time" is wholly false. Thousands of people have been convicted of crimes with no witnesses.

[Nine]

6. I know

All of my post, including that was

[TahitiNut]

7. No. Really?

[Scuba]

9. Color me dense.

[underseasurveyor]

11. Blame it on nitrogen narcosis

[Scuba]

13. I'm still waiting for "rapture of the deep". I've been gleeful while diving, never giddy.

[Skittles]

16. you want I should kick dense Scuba ass?

LEMME AT YOU!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

8. excellent

I forgot about the part that a big reason for all the attention (rightly so--so rare for such murders) is Trayvon's loving parents.

Without them.......... what?

[baldguy]

10. They put the lie to the entire defense of Zimmerman:

"Martin was a young black man, so he must have been doing something wrong & illegal."

[CrispyQ]

12. Don't forget about the THC. So he was potentially

a high young black man, who must have been doing something wrong & illegal.

The whole thing stinks.

[onethatcares]

14. you left out the part

about having a level of thc in your blood system. that alone would turn you into a stark raving lunatic that needs shooting.

[lamp_shade]

15. WOW!! Awesome post. Thank you.

[maria2]

17. :-)

ok