TYT: Is This The Next Big Stand Your Ground Case?

[WhoIsNumberNone]

"On Thursday, an Orlando man shot and killed a 21-year-old who was fleeing his yard. He didn't appear to be stealing anything, according to witness accounts. He didn't appear to be threatening anybody. But Claudius Smith said he feared he was a burglar, followed him over the fence to a neighboring apartment complex, where he shot him after he said he felt threatened, according to a confession documented in an Orlando Police Department report. Smith even said he feared victim Ricardo Sanes was armed "because his pants were falling down" and his hands were in his hoodie pockets, according to a report obtained by the Orlando Sentinel. Now, questions are emerging about whether Smith will also invoke the state's Stand Your Ground law, which gained notoriety over the shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, shot in a Florida residential development while wearing a hoodie...".* John Iadarola (host, TYT University and Common Room), comedian Jimmy Dore, and Steve Oh (TYT COO) break it down on The Young Turks.

[Deep13]

1. If he's running away, it's not self defense. nt

[freebrew]

2. How in anyone's right mind...

has it ever, even in the good ol' cowboy days, been legal to shoot an unarmed person in the back?

This law needs to go away. Cowards using any excuse to kill people.

[RVN VET]

3. America would reject any defense of this, but

Florida? Yeah, Florida will hear the guy out and decide whether he's guilty of murder or was merely defending himself against a -- wait, what was Ricardo Sanes race? Some a them hispanics look pretty white, in which case Smith could hang.

[tom_kelly]

4. Here in FL this will be syg.

Wait and see. This clown will have a defense fund to which all the gun nutters will contribute. Good defense counsel vs. Orange County Prosecutor... well we saw how that ended a few years ago (and that defense counsel was the slip-n-fall attorney Baez).