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This one seems to be a puzzler. Several factors are involved here, so before you post something emotionally charged, consider this:<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
4 – Elections come up in a few months.<\/p>\n
5 – CNN appears to be attempting to influence a court procedure, a very bad thing to do. \u00a0How 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.<\/p>\n
The original decision was to not arrest Drejka, based on the self-defense “stand your ground” statute, after McGlockton shoved him to the ground.<\/p>\n
CNN has published an article in which it says that Drejka has a history of making threats toward other people. \u00a0https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/08\/14\/us\/florida-stand-your-ground-previous-incidents\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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?<\/p>\n