…that if we voted for Mitt Romney, media demigogues would so poison race relations that violence would break out in the street.
And they were right:
According the victim, one of the attackers yelled, “This is for Trayvon,” during the assault. The victim suffered lacerations to the face from the attack.
Police said the suspects took the man’s wallet and iPhone. The police report lists the incident as robbery force violence, hate bias incident.
And if the victim had shot in self-defense, we could go through it all over again.
Which part was “for Trayvon”; the beat-down or the robbery?
Actually, given that this happened in DC, if the victim shot in self-defense, we’d have exactly the result that our President and Mr. Martin’s mother are working for. The victim would be punished, and the perpetrator would be hailed. And we would then wonder why the crime rate is so *(&)(&)(& high in DC.
Since he escaped with the type of injuries that would not justify the use of deadly force, he may well have been charged criminally and convicted.
As with Zimmerman, had the victim fired in the midst of the attack when he had no reason to expect that it would not result in serious injury or death, or would stop before the injury threshholds were met, he might have been legally justified. Still, he certainly would be charged, though; Zimmerman II
Sounds like he got lucky. I’d bet Zimmerman would trade places if he could be assured of the same degree of injury.