This one seems to be a puzzler. Several factors are involved here, so before you post something emotionally charged, consider this:
1 – Florida has a ‘stand your ground’ statute on the books, in place since 2005, prior to the Zimmerman (Latino?) shooting of Trayvon Martin (Black) and everything that followed.
2 – Unless otherwise informed, I believe almost all states do have a self-defense statute on the books. Even Illinois, with its tight-assed gun regulations, has that on the books.
3 – In this case, Drejka is white and McGlockton, the deceased, is black. Both of them have/had volatile tempers and were/are quick to pick a quarrel.
4 – Elections come up in a few months.
5 – CNN appears to be attempting to influence a court procedure, a very bad thing to do. How can a jury be impartial if media source like CNN has prejudiced potential jurors against accused persons? Article 8 of the US Constitution, 5th and 6th Amendments are all impinged by such an attempt.
The original decision was to not arrest Drejka, based on the self-defense “stand your ground” statute, after McGlockton shoved him to the ground.
CNN has published an article in which it says that Drejka has a history of making threats toward other people. https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/14/us/florida-stand-your-ground-previous-incidents/index.html
Apparently, the busybodies at CNN are determined to create a major incident, possibly including racist stuff, out of something that was a squabble which turned into a shoving match and someone got killed.
CNN’s attempts to try Drejka and fry him in the media, instead of letting the justice system do its job, are obviously based on their agenda to promote antagonism and magnify reactionary behavior to events, with no consideration for the real outcome.
Would they have spent so much time on this if McGlockton had been a white man, and/or if Drejka used a knife instead of a gun?
This is Reuter’s report on this incident: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-florida-shooting/florida-man-charged-in-stand-your-ground-shooting-officials-idUSKBN1KY1VG
Reuters is simply reporting the facts of this event, not attempting to promote an opinion in you, the reader. So this brings up an important subject: freedom of the press.
Is it more important to let CNN run with its attempts to stir up controversy and trouble, a clear indicator that they have a hidden agenda, instead of shutting them up? Is their obvious bias toward causing trouble going to show not just overt prejudice, but also a very obvious attempt to influence the judicial system and the outcome of real-world trials?
If CNN, and others of their ilk, try someone in the press – nothing new, by the way, it has happened for a long time – who will be able to get a fair trial? And should CNN, et al., be held responsible for such interference when/if evidence is found to show that an accused person was, in fact, NOT the guilty party, despite their attempts to hang him high? This, also, is not something new.
Since it appears to me that CNN is doing everything possible to hang Drejka to keep him from getting a fair trial, what is the solution to their miscreance?
