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I just don't know if they'd be so quick to buy I was in fear for my life if the kid had been white. Hispanic, maybe.
I think that it got more press because of the way the races were, but if that kid was white and his parents had any money or position, they would have without their community been able to raise a stink about their kid being killed and nothing at all being done about. That part of Florida a Cuban family may have had as much pull.
Lots of cases get political when people don't feel the local cops are doing their job. Just I think when it happens in other communities it doesn't play out in public. Just a few phone calls and a donation or two and the police chief takes early retirement and the state takes over. You really think no white person has ever gotten the politcal machine involved to get the justice they think they deserve?
If it had been a Hispanic kid the protests would be in a different area. I do think the long history of white people killing black people at will with no redress does play into it. I don't know of many cases where a black person kills a white person and walks free without even an arrest when they know who did it before the body is even taken away.
I also think that it was an early application of a new stand your ground law made it more likely to make the news. Before the law at least there would have been an arrest and a grand jury or something. Not a local cop being told they would be the one in legal trouble if the shooter even suggests it was self defense. I don't blame the local cops for following a law that prevents them from doing anything if someone claims self defense. I just think we need more than a hey, I was scared, send me home from the legal system. Sooner or later someone was going to get killed and their family and community wasn't going to just take it with a shrug and a oh well, thems the breaks. Gotta expect at least one of your kids will get shot and killed.
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