Monday, March 26, 2012

Rest In Peace, Trayvon!!

I want Trayvon's death to mean something. Something beyond senseless murder with racial underpinnings. Something beyond a flimsy excuse in a "Stand Your Ground Law" that does not even apply to the murderer of Trayvon! Something beyond a white murderer that is walking free on this threadbare law that does not cover those involved in volunteer security gigs and the running down of innocents they come in contact with on their "beats" in their neighborhoods. Florida is turning away from the obvious. A young boy has been murdered. A goon goes free. It has much more to do with skin color that the letter of the law. Because the murderer BROKE the flimsy little law that indicates that standing your ground does NOT cover pursuit of suspect. Killing Trayvon was just that, killing! Why law inforcement backed away from taking the murderer away and booking him for murder, I don't know. They had intent, racial epiphets, recorded dialoge with the 911 operator and an open admission to the police for the responsibility of Trayvon's death.
The circumstances around the death all point to murder. Not only murder, but FIRST degree murder, because the intention was there from the start that this man was going to kill him. He was going to kill him NOT because he was in violation of some HOA code, or he had caught him sneaking around houses, but because he was Black, he wore a hoodie and he was a teenager!
A black teenager in a hoodie? Is that a sentence for DEATH in Florida? If this is true this diverse state, then it may be time to re-examine the police force, the laws and the motives of all involved. It is only through justice that Trayvon's death will have any sense of closure for his family, his friends and the rest of this country. What we all want desparately is to believe that murder of a certain CLASS of people cannot be settled at the crime scene instead of a courtroom!

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