This thread is not to debate whether or not Zimmerman should have been arrested by now, there are other threas doing that. This one is to try and show the story from a different view but with the same reaction from Sharpton. This is a real CNN article, just flipped some things around and changed names. Let's switch the story up some and see how it plays out.....
(CNN) --On February 26 in Sanford, Florida, 17-year-old Travis Martin was shot and killed while walking home from a convenience store.
The incident hassparked nationwide conversations, debates and ralliesabout whether race played a role in Martin's death. Martin is caucasian, and his admitted shooter, neighborhood watch volunteer George Glimmerman, is black. Also under fire is Florida's so-called "Stand Your Ground" law, which allows people to use force in self-defense.
According to a report in the Orlando Sentinel, Glimmerman told police that he lost sight of Martin and was returning to his SUV when the teen approached him. The two exchanged words, according to Glimmerman, who said Martin then punched him in the nose. Glimmerman said he was repeatedly punched and had his head slammed into the sidewalk, according to the Sentinel. He began yelling, he told police, before shooting in self-defense.
Glimmerman is being held in the case pending further investigation, though his lawyer has said his client shot Martin in self-defense.
Al Sharpton, black civil rights leader has already stepped in to make a case and rally support for Glimmerman, who he says should never have been arrested or detained. ""We can not allow for it to be a legal precedent that a legally armed black man can be arrested for defending himself," Sharpton said. "Glimmerman was obviously attacked by Martin, just look at the beating he took, unless the Sanford Police Department wants to take credit for that."
Rallies have occured across the country protesting Glimmerman's arrest calling it racially biased. "If this case were turned around no way does the white guy get arrested!" says one protester.
There is also support calling for the conviction of Glimmerman. "Race should not matter here, all I know is a kid is dead and the shooter is behind bars." Says one caucasian counter-protester. (Yes I threw this in here to show the hypocrisy of what some Zimmerman supporters might turn up)
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Humor me here folks. All I am merely displaying is why the black community needs to stop listening to Sharpton. If the Trayvon Martin case were reversed you would still have the same reactions, just from a different point of view. Right now you have the "black community" led by Sharpton (at least in the media) calling for Zimmerman's head and angry he was not arrested at the scene. I have no doubt if Zimmerman were black under the same circumstances and he were arrested at the scene (what they want in the real situation) he would be getting Al Sharpton's full support and there would be screams of racism against the Sanford Police Dept. This is why people need to stop following the likes of Al Sharpton. He is capitalizing off of Trayvon's death, period.
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