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TSA
01-23-2014, 06:16 PM
Where the fuck is boutons??? Even got an article from his favorite site. Guess it's a non-story when it's a black guy killing a latino.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/florida-man-hops-fence-shoot-and-kill-21-year-old-hoodie-then-claims-self-defense

January 22, 2014 |

On Thursday, an Orlando man shot and killed a 21-year-old who was fleeing his yard. He didn’t appear to be stealing anything, according to witness accounts. He didn’t appear to be threatening anybody. But Claudius Smith said he feared he was a burglar, followed him over the fence to a neighboring apartment complex, where he shot him after he said he felt threatened, according to a confession documented in an Orlando Police Department report. Smith even said he feared victim Ricardo Sanes was armed “because his pants were falling down” and his hands were in his hoodie pockets, according to a report obtained by the Orlando Sentinel.

Now, questions are emerging about whether Smith will also invoke the state’s Stand Your Ground law, which gained notoriety over the shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, shot in a Florida residential development while wearing a hoodie. Law enforcement officials don’t seem to believe Stand Your Ground applies. Smith has already been charged with second-degree murder. But that doesn’t stop a judge from granting Stand Your Ground immunity later. In one of the most recent Florida court decisions on Stand Your Ground, an appeals court granted Stand Your Ground immunity to a man who went to his car to get a gun before the fatal incident.

According to statements by Smith’s girlfriend, Angela Kemraj, to police, the incident started when she saw a man in the yard on surveillance cameras and reported it to Smith. She said they saw the individual in dark clothes and a hoodie leaving their yard without anything in his hands, and climbing over the fence to a neighboring apartment complex. Smith then left the apartment and climbed over the fence. Two minutes later, Kemraj said she heard gunshots. Soon after, Smith came back to the apartment and said Sanes tried to rob him, without mentioning the shooting. During initial police questioning, Smith later denied knowledge about the shooting, and only later confessed, claiming he shot in self-defense

Wild Cobra
01-23-2014, 06:34 PM
Where the fuck is boutons??? Even got an article from his favorite site. Guess it's a non-story when it's a black guy killing a latino.

Yep.

No story here.

No race card to play.

pgardn
01-23-2014, 06:55 PM
Soon after, Smith came back to the apartment and said Sanes tried to rob him, without mentioning the shooting. During initial police questioning, Smith later denied knowledge about the shooting, and only later confessed, claiming he shot in self-defense


Read the above. This will cause the shooter big problems. Did he call anyone while following? If George had done the above he would have been detained sooner and the story would not have been National news.

Bill_Brasky
01-23-2014, 08:37 PM
Sounds shady as fuck and like he should definitely go to jail.

boutons_deux
01-24-2014, 06:21 AM
Sounds shady as fuck and like he should definitely go to jail.

nah, it's FL