Eight years after Trayvon Martin, another 17-year-old is killed in a Sanford, Florida, stand your ground case

[blastoff]

I was indicating just last night in a thread regarding the killing of Ahmud Abery in Georgia that Texas is the only state that I'm aware of that allows shooting someone to protect property and then only under a very specific set of circumstances.

Again we find that the shooter in this case originally claimed to have acted in a manner which is contrary to what the law allows. Thank God for that documentation which is as I understand it, heard in the 911 call.

By the way, the attorney representing the family of the 17 year old is the same attorney who represented George Zimmerman in his criminal trial

The family of a black 17-year-old fatally shot in the back by a homeowner during an alleged car break-in in Sanford, Florida, has hired Mark O'Mara, the attorney who represented George Zimmerman, the lawyer said.

Zimmerman shot and killed another 17-year-old, Trayvon Martin, in the same city in 2012. He was acquitted of all charges after claiming self-defense.

In the new case O'Mara has taken, he is representing the family of Adrein Green, who was killed before 2 a.m. Tuesday after, police say, he attempted to burglarize a vehicle in a gated community.

The homeowner was on the phone with a 911 operator reporting a possible home burglary when he fired two shots at Green, which can be heard on the 911 call released by police.

2014: Young black men can get justice, O'Mara says. 03:05

Officers found Green unresponsive on a road near the home, police say. They performed CPR, but Green died at the hospital from "an apparent single gunshot wound to his back," Sanford Police Chief Cecil Smith said at a news conference.

Evidence at the scene shows Green tried to break into one of the homeowner's vehicles, Smith said.

The homeowner wasn't arrested because he was justified in using deadly force when Green allegedly engaged in a "forcible felony," said Assistant State Attorney Dan Faggard with the 18th Judicial Circuit.

The homeowner told police he feared for his life and for the lives of his wife and baby, Faggard said. Authorities have not publicly identified the homeowner.

Under Florida law, a person can use deadly force if she or he "believes that such conduct is necessary to prevent the imminent commission of a forcible felony."

The person using deadly force "does not have a duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground if the person using or threatening to use the deadly force is not engaged in a criminal activity and is in a place where he or she has a right to be," the law states.

O'Mara contested the prosecutor's claim, saying the homeowner says in the 911 call that he fired his weapon to scare Green off of his property.

"They weren't shooting in fear of personal safety," O'Mara told CNN. "In this case, it's pretty clear, in my opinion, you aren't allowed to shoot someone because they are breaking into your car."

The investigation is ongoing, State Attorney Phil Archer's office said in a statement, and once a final determination is made it will be announced publicly.

Florida's stand your ground law was a topic of debate in the Zimmerman case, as well as in the cases of Michael Dunn, who killed Jordan Davis, 17, during a 2012 argument over loud music in Jacksonville, and Michael Drejka, who killed Markeis McGlockton after McGlockton pushed him in a 2018 confrontation over a handicapped parking space in Clearwater.

Like Zimmerman, Dunn forewent a stand your ground defense and argued the shooting was in self-defense. Dunn was convicted of murder, Drejka of manslaughter. Both are in prison.
Eight years after Trayvon Martin, another 17-year-old is killed in a Sanford, Florida, stand your ground case

So it’s safe to assume Zimm’s former attorney has educated the family that SYG wasn’t part of the trial that acquitted him.

 

[harmonica]

I was indicating just last night in a thread regarding the killing of Ahmud Abery in Georgia that Texas is the only state that I'm aware of that allows shooting someone to protect property and then only under a very specific set of circumstances.

Again we find that the shooter in this case originally claimed to have acted in a manner which is contrary to what the law allows. Thank God for that documentation which is as I understand it, heard in the 911 call.

By the way, the attorney representing the family of the 17 year old is the same attorney who represented George Zimmerman in his criminal trial

The family of a black 17-year-old fatally shot in the back by a homeowner during an alleged car break-in in Sanford, Florida, has hired Mark O'Mara, the attorney who represented George Zimmerman, the lawyer said.

Zimmerman shot and killed another 17-year-old, Trayvon Martin, in the same city in 2012. He was acquitted of all charges after claiming self-defense.

In the new case O'Mara has taken, he is representing the family of Adrein Green, who was killed before 2 a.m. Tuesday after, police say, he attempted to burglarize a vehicle in a gated community.

The homeowner was on the phone with a 911 operator reporting a possible home burglary when he fired two shots at Green, which can be heard on the 911 call released by police.

2014: Young black men can get justice, O'Mara says. 03:05

Officers found Green unresponsive on a road near the home, police say. They performed CPR, but Green died at the hospital from "an apparent single gunshot wound to his back," Sanford Police Chief Cecil Smith said at a news conference.

Evidence at the scene shows Green tried to break into one of the homeowner's vehicles, Smith said.

The homeowner wasn't arrested because he was justified in using deadly force when Green allegedly engaged in a "forcible felony," said Assistant State Attorney Dan Faggard with the 18th Judicial Circuit.

The homeowner told police he feared for his life and for the lives of his wife and baby, Faggard said. Authorities have not publicly identified the homeowner.

Under Florida law, a person can use deadly force if she or he "believes that such conduct is necessary to prevent the imminent commission of a forcible felony."

The person using deadly force "does not have a duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground if the person using or threatening to use the deadly force is not engaged in a criminal activity and is in a place where he or she has a right to be," the law states.

O'Mara contested the prosecutor's claim, saying the homeowner says in the 911 call that he fired his weapon to scare Green off of his property.

"They weren't shooting in fear of personal safety," O'Mara told CNN. "In this case, it's pretty clear, in my opinion, you aren't allowed to shoot someone because they are breaking into your car."

The investigation is ongoing, State Attorney Phil Archer's office said in a statement, and once a final determination is made it will be announced publicly.

Florida's stand your ground law was a topic of debate in the Zimmerman case, as well as in the cases of Michael Dunn, who killed Jordan Davis, 17, during a 2012 argument over loud music in Jacksonville, and Michael Drejka, who killed Markeis McGlockton after McGlockton pushed him in a 2018 confrontation over a handicapped parking space in Clearwater.

Like Zimmerman, Dunn forewent a stand your ground defense and argued the shooting was in self-defense. Dunn was convicted of murder, Drejka of manslaughter. Both are in prison.
Eight years after Trayvon Martin, another 17-year-old is killed in a Sanford, Florida, stand your ground case

....you do understand your title PROVES what we've been saying all along?? !!!!!?????
.....do you not see it????!!!!

EIGHT YEARS!!!!!

 

[MacTheKnife]

I was indicating just last night in a thread regarding the killing of Ahmud Abery in Georgia that Texas is the only state that I'm aware of that allows shooting someone to protect property and then only under a very specific set of circumstances.

Again we find that the shooter in this case originally claimed to have acted in a manner which is contrary to what the law allows. Thank God for that documentation which is as I understand it, heard in the 911 call.

By the way, the attorney representing the family of the 17 year old is the same attorney who represented George Zimmerman in his criminal trial

The family of a black 17-year-old fatally shot in the back by a homeowner during an alleged car break-in in Sanford, Florida, has hired Mark O'Mara, the attorney who represented George Zimmerman, the lawyer said.

Zimmerman shot and killed another 17-year-old, Trayvon Martin, in the same city in 2012. He was acquitted of all charges after claiming self-defense.

In the new case O'Mara has taken, he is representing the family of Adrein Green, who was killed before 2 a.m. Tuesday after, police say, he attempted to burglarize a vehicle in a gated community.

The homeowner was on the phone with a 911 operator reporting a possible home burglary when he fired two shots at Green, which can be heard on the 911 call released by police.

2014: Young black men can get justice, O'Mara says. 03:05

Officers found Green unresponsive on a road near the home, police say. They performed CPR, but Green died at the hospital from "an apparent single gunshot wound to his back," Sanford Police Chief Cecil Smith said at a news conference.

Evidence at the scene shows Green tried to break into one of the homeowner's vehicles, Smith said.

The homeowner wasn't arrested because he was justified in using deadly force when Green allegedly engaged in a "forcible felony," said Assistant State Attorney Dan Faggard with the 18th Judicial Circuit.

The homeowner told police he feared for his life and for the lives of his wife and baby, Faggard said. Authorities have not publicly identified the homeowner.

Under Florida law, a person can use deadly force if she or he "believes that such conduct is necessary to prevent the imminent commission of a forcible felony."

The person using deadly force "does not have a duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground if the person using or threatening to use the deadly force is not engaged in a criminal activity and is in a place where he or she has a right to be," the law states.

O'Mara contested the prosecutor's claim, saying the homeowner says in the 911 call that he fired his weapon to scare Green off of his property.

"They weren't shooting in fear of personal safety," O'Mara told CNN. "In this case, it's pretty clear, in my opinion, you aren't allowed to shoot someone because they are breaking into your car."

The investigation is ongoing, State Attorney Phil Archer's office said in a statement, and once a final determination is made it will be announced publicly.

Florida's stand your ground law was a topic of debate in the Zimmerman case, as well as in the cases of Michael Dunn, who killed Jordan Davis, 17, during a 2012 argument over loud music in Jacksonville, and Michael Drejka, who killed Markeis McGlockton after McGlockton pushed him in a 2018 confrontation over a handicapped parking space in Clearwater.

Like Zimmerman, Dunn forewent a stand your ground defense and argued the shooting was in self-defense. Dunn was convicted of murder, Drejka of manslaughter. Both are in prison.
Eight years after Trayvon Martin, another 17-year-old is killed in a Sanford, Florida, stand your ground case

You obviously approve of black kids ripping off cars to get their walking around money

but I say its too bad his mom didnt raise him with better values

Why would you assume that I approve of anyone engaging in criminal activity but especially "black kids"?

The larger problem we as a society are dealing with is the fact that blacks committ crimes at a disproportionate rate.

Even obama admitted that ....if you deny it I will post it .......any how do you understand what 'dis-proportionate' means when it comes to the rate of black crime?

 

[MacTheKnife]

..if you commit a crime, you initiate the problem ....
.. if a criminal is shot dead, it is undeniable that it is GOOD for everyone--good for the community
..T Martin was doing nothing wrong..Zimmerman should be in jail..Zimmerman was not standing his ground---not at all...he kept going after Martin

Zimmerman was laying on his back getting his head pounded into cement.

Martin was the thug that Obama wanted to father.

The zimmerman case has been gone over ad-infinitum yet the liberals keep coming back with the same old talking points that have bden debunked time and time again....they seem to think by repeating their ignorance of the case, their posting dis-information, and their out right lying if repeated over and over as they have done and are doing might eventually wear foks down to the point where someone might actually believe them....all they are doing is propagandizing.

 

[harmonica]

..if you commit a crime, you initiate the problem ....
.. if a criminal is shot dead, it is undeniable that it is GOOD for everyone--good for the community
..T Martin was doing nothing wrong..Zimmerman should be in jail..Zimmerman was not standing his ground---not at all...he kept going after Martin

Zimmerman was laying on his back getting his head pounded into cement.

Martin was the thug that Obama wanted to father.

The zimmerman case has been gone over ad-infinitum yet the liberals keep coming back with the same old talking points that have bden debunked time and time again....they seem to think by repeating their ignorance of the case, their posting dis-information, and their out right lying if repeated over and over as they have done and are doing might eventually wear foks down to the point where someone might actually believe them....all they are doing is propagandizing.

..TMartin is a PERFECT case of standing his ground
Zim was not going to stop chasing him
''these assholes always get away''
there--and this shows MALICE
he kept going after him in his vehicle--then got out and chased him on foot
..if someone can defend themselves with a firearm, you surely can defend yourself with your bare hands
..it is clear Zim is the aggressor

 

[MacTheKnife]

I was indicating just last night in a thread regarding the killing of Ahmud Abery in Georgia that Texas is the only state that I'm aware of that allows shooting someone to protect property and then only under a very specific set of circumstances.

Again we find that the shooter in this case originally claimed to have acted in a manner which is contrary to what the law allows. Thank God for that documentation which is as I understand it, heard in the 911 call.

By the way, the attorney representing the family of the 17 year old is the same attorney who represented George Zimmerman in his criminal trial

The family of a black 17-year-old fatally shot in the back by a homeowner during an alleged car break-in in Sanford, Florida, has hired Mark O'Mara, the attorney who represented George Zimmerman, the lawyer said.

Zimmerman shot and killed another 17-year-old, Trayvon Martin, in the same city in 2012. He was acquitted of all charges after claiming self-defense.

In the new case O'Mara has taken, he is representing the family of Adrein Green, who was killed before 2 a.m. Tuesday after, police say, he attempted to burglarize a vehicle in a gated community.

The homeowner was on the phone with a 911 operator reporting a possible home burglary when he fired two shots at Green, which can be heard on the 911 call released by police.

2014: Young black men can get justice, O'Mara says. 03:05

Officers found Green unresponsive on a road near the home, police say. They performed CPR, but Green died at the hospital from "an apparent single gunshot wound to his back," Sanford Police Chief Cecil Smith said at a news conference.

Evidence at the scene shows Green tried to break into one of the homeowner's vehicles, Smith said.

The homeowner wasn't arrested because he was justified in using deadly force when Green allegedly engaged in a "forcible felony," said Assistant State Attorney Dan Faggard with the 18th Judicial Circuit.

The homeowner told police he feared for his life and for the lives of his wife and baby, Faggard said. Authorities have not publicly identified the homeowner.

Under Florida law, a person can use deadly force if she or he "believes that such conduct is necessary to prevent the imminent commission of a forcible felony."

The person using deadly force "does not have a duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground if the person using or threatening to use the deadly force is not engaged in a criminal activity and is in a place where he or she has a right to be," the law states.

O'Mara contested the prosecutor's claim, saying the homeowner says in the 911 call that he fired his weapon to scare Green off of his property.

"They weren't shooting in fear of personal safety," O'Mara told CNN. "In this case, it's pretty clear, in my opinion, you aren't allowed to shoot someone because they are breaking into your car."

The investigation is ongoing, State Attorney Phil Archer's office said in a statement, and once a final determination is made it will be announced publicly.

Florida's stand your ground law was a topic of debate in the Zimmerman case, as well as in the cases of Michael Dunn, who killed Jordan Davis, 17, during a 2012 argument over loud music in Jacksonville, and Michael Drejka, who killed Markeis McGlockton after McGlockton pushed him in a 2018 confrontation over a handicapped parking space in Clearwater.

Like Zimmerman, Dunn forewent a stand your ground defense and argued the shooting was in self-defense. Dunn was convicted of murder, Drejka of manslaughter. Both are in prison.
Eight years after Trayvon Martin, another 17-year-old is killed in a Sanford, Florida, stand your ground case

You obviously approve of black kids ripping off cars to get their walking around money

but I say its too bad his mom didnt raise him with better values

The main contributing factor to the high rate of black crime is well known and has been posted many times.....most black kids have dysfunctional homes....no father present....their mother getting pregnant by different men and unable to control her children as they get older....thus they run the streets at all hours committing all sorts of crimes and as the older they get the more serious the nature of their crime becomes....the net result is our prisons are overwhelmed by black inmates of which neither blacks or liberals will admit they shoud be in jail...they claim in fact that the laws these criminals break are unjust or that the criminal justice system discriminates....thus denying the problem.

This very lame at best and thus these folk that do that are not part of the solution but part of the problem.

Any problem that society has can never be solved unless the problem is recognized.....thus far...the democratic party, liberals, most blacks and other misguided folk refuse to face up to the real problem.....black families are broken...single mothers having loads of children and unable to control them needs to be dealt with....giving them more welfare is the answer...money is not the answer....the answer is to re-establish the foundations for a functional black family....i.e. black families with a father present....that is why black muslims have considerable influence in black communities....they preach high morals and sound families.

Black Christian pastors are inadequate....they need to preach the truth and stop all the nonsense they preach regarding social justice....they need to recognize that what they preach for the most part is fallacious...they need to get back to the basics....that they at one time did preach and when they did the black families were much stronger and the rate of black crime was very low.....no reason that they cannot re-establish the morals they had at that time....yes it is a question of morals....practicing good morals and living to the standards of True Christianity....otherwise the muslims will continue to advance and Christianity in the ghettoes will continue to decline.

 

[MacTheKnife]

..if you commit a crime, you initiate the problem ....
.. if a criminal is shot dead, it is undeniable that it is GOOD for everyone--good for the community
..T Martin was doing nothing wrong..Zimmerman should be in jail..Zimmerman was not standing his ground---not at all...he kept going after Martin

Zimmerman was laying on his back getting his head pounded into cement.

Martin was the thug that Obama wanted to father.

The zimmerman case has been gone over ad-infinitum yet the liberals keep coming back with the same old talking points that have bden debunked time and time again....they seem to think by repeating their ignorance of the case, their posting dis-information, and their out right lying if repeated over and over as they have done and are doing might eventually wear foks down to the point where someone might actually believe them....all they are doing is propagandizing.

..TMartin is a PERFECT case of standing his ground
Zim was not going to stop chasing him
''these assholes always get away''
there--and this shows MALICE
he kept going after him in his vehicle--then got out and chased him on foot
..if someone can defend themselves with a firearm, you surely can defend yourself with your bare hands
..it is clear Zim is the aggressor

Repeating this lie over and over does not change the truth of the case and is nothing more than spamming the board with things that have been debunked now for years.

Not even to mention off topic...we do not need another discussion or thread about Trayvon Martin....that case has been gone over and over and it is time that peope accepted the truth and reality of it but too many keep posting nonsense and lies in a vain effort to deny the truth.....instead of trying to learn from the case aka what provoked someone like Trayvon to choose the gangsta style life...where did his parents go wrong and how the black community is failing kids like this who gravitate to crime and thuggery.

 

[WEATHER53]

Martin memo must have sunk in if only one death in last 8 years.

 

[Levant]

If your instructors are teaching you to try and disarm someone who's holding a gun on you then they need to find another line of work! My instructor was Larry Kelly, one of the best Karate fighters in the country back then. He didn't teach his students to be morons. Karate doesn't make you bullet proof. If someone pulls a gun on you...the only sane response is to be non confrontational. Please don't tell people they need to resist someone with a weapon. It's foolhardy and will get people hurt needlessly!

Generally, up to now, I thought your posts were ok, indicative of having an actual brain. Now I know you're a fucking idiot. Did you not read, or have read to you, any of the links I shared of people killed while being compliant? I'm sure your intent is to whine and grovel to survive any threat to you but it won't work. I've already proven why you need to know how to defend yourself. You already showed your ignorance over the whole idea that the victim of the McMichael shooting could not possibly attack a shotgun because he did. Like you, he just didn't know what to do when he got there.

No wonder the world is so fucked up. It's so full of idiots.

 

[Oldestyle]

If your instructors are teaching you to try and disarm someone who's holding a gun on you then they need to find another line of work! My instructor was Larry Kelly, one of the best Karate fighters in the country back then. He didn't teach his students to be morons. Karate doesn't make you bullet proof. If someone pulls a gun on you...the only sane response is to be non confrontational. Please don't tell people they need to resist someone with a weapon. It's foolhardy and will get people hurt needlessly!

Generally, up to now, I thought your posts were ok, indicative of having an actual brain. Now I know you're a fucking idiot. Did you not read, or have read to you, any of the links I shared of people killed while being compliant? I'm sure your intent is to whine and grovel to survive any threat to you but it won't work. I've already proven why you need to know how to defend yourself. You already showed your ignorance over the whole idea that the victim of the McMichael shooting could not possibly attack a shotgun because he did. Like you, he just didn't know what to do when he got there.

No wonder the world is so fucked up. It's so full of idiots.

Ah...but YOU would have taken the shotgun away? I'm curious...how many times have you actually done this? You know...disarmed someone with a shotgun that meant you harm?

To be blunt...you remind me of countless idiots that I've run into over the years that thought they were Karate bad asses! What they all have in common is that they generally get hurt bad doing something stupid like trying to disarm someone with a firearm or thinking they can take out six guys in a street fight. This isn't the movies and you're not Chuck Norris!

 

[MacTheKnife]

..if you commit a crime, you initiate the problem ....
.. if a criminal is shot dead, it is undeniable that it is GOOD for everyone--good for the community
..T Martin was doing nothing wrong..Zimmerman should be in jail..Zimmerman was not standing his ground---not at all...he kept going after Martin

You are very confused about the Zimmerman case. It was not a stand your ground case though many have that misconception.

It was a simple case of self-defense. Travon attacked Zimmerman....ambushed him...after initially running away he came back and attacked Z....thus placing Z in fear of his life...thus he was entitled to use lethal force to save his life....which he did.

The jury agreed....and justifiably so....even Jimmy Carter one of the most Liberal people in America...agreed.

The problem with the Z case as others when the media gets involved...the people are not told the truth....the media twists and spins these cases in an attempt to incite the black community as well as gullible white liberals into something it never was.

First of all they presented a picture for the world to see of Trayvon when he was about ten years old.....most people thought this is the way he really looked on the night he was killed....thus people became angry thinking this sweet looking little black boy was killed for no reason.....however the little boy had grown up....he was no longer just 10 yrs old....he was within days of being 18 and had become a wanna be gangsta.

But even obama was tricked by the photo...provoking him declare if I had a son he would look like Trayvon....thus inserting himself and his authority into a criminal case prejudicing folks against Z...this was outrageous and should never have occurred.

Fortunately Z had a good defense team and they were able to get an honest jury who looked at all the evidence and facts of the case which most of these folks who still want to argue this case....do not have and never had. Very few of them that come on here in defense of trayvon know the facts of the case.

 

[MacTheKnife]

Anytime you see a black man running thru a white neighborhood it's only logical to assume either he has stolen something or just committed a crime and is running from the police. ...

Any time I see a post like this, it is only logical to assume an IQ of less than 70.

I disagree...blacks constantly run from the police...and you rarely see one out just jogging for exercise or whatever.

 

[MacTheKnife]

Any time I see a post like this, it is only logical to assume an IQ of less than 70.

This is just a friendly discussion. There is no reason to be rude. ...

Exactly....way too many pc republicans.

 

[MacTheKnife]

Exactly, blacks don't 'jog'. They move quickly AWAY from things like gunfire, dogs, and the police.

Which is the reason you don't see any blacks as drivers in NASCAR.
Because whenever they are in a wreck, they take off running. ...

bwaaaaaaaaaaaaa good humor should always be appreciated.

 

[MacTheKnife]

I really did not want to go in this direction but some of the posts above have provoked me because it is easy thus to see even some conservatives really do not have a good conception of how pervasive black crime is.....they want to make too many allowances for black suspects an--d black criminals.....that is a huge reason there is so much black on white crime not even to mention black on black crime which is also taboo to talk about.

There is a pathology in the black community that really needs addressing....the break-up of the black family, why so many young blacks turn to crime,violence and drugs....very disproportionate to their percentage of the total population.

 

[Tijn Von Ingersleben]

I really did not want to go in this direction but some of the posts above have provoked me because it is easy thus to see even some conservatives really do not have a good conception of how pervasive black crime is.....they want to make too many allowances for black suspects an--d black criminals.....that is a huge reason there is so much black on white crime not even to mention black on black crime which is also taboo to talk about.

There is a pathology in the black community that really needs addressing....the break-up of the black family, why so many young blacks turn to crime,violence and drugs....very disproportionate to their percentage of the total population.

Yeah bro...that's totally racist.

 

[MacTheKnife]

Any time I see a post like this, it is only logical to assume an IQ of less than 70.

This is just a friendly discussion. There is no reason to be rude. ...

It's not a friendly discussion if you continue to spread the lies the enemy of the people are spreading.

What the hell are you talking about?

 

[MacTheKnife]

I was indicating just last night in a thread regarding the killing of Ahmud Abery in Georgia that Texas is the only state that I'm aware of that allows shooting someone to protect property and then only under a very specific set of circumstances.

Again we find that the shooter in this case originally claimed to have acted in a manner which is contrary to what the law allows. Thank God for that documentation which is as I understand it, heard in the 911 call.

By the way, the attorney representing the family of the 17 year old is the same attorney who represented George Zimmerman in his criminal trial

The family of a black 17-year-old fatally shot in the back by a homeowner during an alleged car break-in in Sanford, Florida, has hired Mark O'Mara, the attorney who represented George Zimmerman, the lawyer said.

Zimmerman shot and killed another 17-year-old, Trayvon Martin, in the same city in 2012. He was acquitted of all charges after claiming self-defense.

In the new case O'Mara has taken, he is representing the family of Adrein Green, who was killed before 2 a.m. Tuesday after, police say, he attempted to burglarize a vehicle in a gated community.

The homeowner was on the phone with a 911 operator reporting a possible home burglary when he fired two shots at Green, which can be heard on the 911 call released by police.

2014: Young black men can get justice, O'Mara says. 03:05

Officers found Green unresponsive on a road near the home, police say. They performed CPR, but Green died at the hospital from "an apparent single gunshot wound to his back," Sanford Police Chief Cecil Smith said at a news conference.

Evidence at the scene shows Green tried to break into one of the homeowner's vehicles, Smith said.

The homeowner wasn't arrested because he was justified in using deadly force when Green allegedly engaged in a "forcible felony," said Assistant State Attorney Dan Faggard with the 18th Judicial Circuit.

The homeowner told police he feared for his life and for the lives of his wife and baby, Faggard said. Authorities have not publicly identified the homeowner.

Under Florida law, a person can use deadly force if she or he "believes that such conduct is necessary to prevent the imminent commission of a forcible felony."

The person using deadly force "does not have a duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground if the person using or threatening to use the deadly force is not engaged in a criminal activity and is in a place where he or she has a right to be," the law states.

O'Mara contested the prosecutor's claim, saying the homeowner says in the 911 call that he fired his weapon to scare Green off of his property.

"They weren't shooting in fear of personal safety," O'Mara told CNN. "In this case, it's pretty clear, in my opinion, you aren't allowed to shoot someone because they are breaking into your car."

The investigation is ongoing, State Attorney Phil Archer's office said in a statement, and once a final determination is made it will be announced publicly.

Florida's stand your ground law was a topic of debate in the Zimmerman case, as well as in the cases of Michael Dunn, who killed Jordan Davis, 17, during a 2012 argument over loud music in Jacksonville, and Michael Drejka, who killed Markeis McGlockton after McGlockton pushed him in a 2018 confrontation over a handicapped parking space in Clearwater.

Like Zimmerman, Dunn forewent a stand your ground defense and argued the shooting was in self-defense. Dunn was convicted of murder, Drejka of manslaughter. Both are in prison.
Eight years after Trayvon Martin, another 17-year-old is killed in a Sanford, Florida, stand your ground case

No one cares when criminals die. When are you people going to understand that?

Too many do not....especially when it comes to blacks.

Sad to see confused so called repurblicans and or conservatives display a big mis-understanding of the huge,huge problem this nation has with black criminals.

 

[MacTheKnife]

QUESTION:

Do you understand what SELF DEFENSE means?

The Arbery defenders seem to have MAJOR TROUBLE with the concept.

#IRobWIthArbery

I most certainly do. Do you understand the difference between shooting to protect property and shooting to defend your own life or the life of another? I'll give ou a hint, only one has to do with the SELF-defense laws.

In this case it was not Stand-Your-Ground law but the Castle law

the homeowner was defending his property

Yes, but we are expected to stand down when thugs threaten or rob us. This is the progressive way.

Thus they encourage crime....they want to give criminals more rights than their victims.

 

[MacTheKnife]

QUESTION:

Do you understand what SELF DEFENSE means?

The Arbery defenders seem to have MAJOR TROUBLE with the concept.

#IRobWIthArbery

I most certainly do. Do you understand the difference between shooting to protect property and shooting to defend your own life or the life of another? I'll give ou a hint, only one has to do with the SELF-defense laws.

In this case it was not Stand-Your-Ground law but the Castle law

the homeowner was defending his property

Yes, but we are expected to stand down when thugs threaten or rob us. This is the progressive way.

First rule: The white man is racist.

Second Rule: The white 'system' is racist.

Third Rule: Therefore all actions are in repulsion of an inherently evil system and people.

Just wait till YOU are the minority white people. Do you think those opinions will go away?

good point....a lot of gullible people out there who have bought the b.s. spread by the media.