I heard what that dude said. You don’t need to re-cap. We all heard him. His long ass press conference was uncalled for. We knew that motherfucker who shot that brother was going to get away with it. I don’t need some long drawn out justification speech about it. 

You're right. Even if they had to follow the law the dead white guy would be the poster child for changing the law. Literally poster, with the white paper you just got to draw an outline. Jokes aside that would be the protest to work too. I'd say some Floridians of color should be looking for opportunities but no one…

Someone please, please tell me there is recourse when the sheriff refuses to arrest someone. This is not his call to make. There has to be some justice here because this is not acceptable. And anyone who would shoot another man over a parking space is a danger to the public and especially to black people.

We all know had the races been reversed and it was a black man who “defended” himself by shooting a white man defending his family, that white man would be called a hero and that brother would be up under the jail and Lawyer-Sheriff Bob would be telling us all how he had no choice but to lock that brother up.

Will post every time since a version of this story posts every single day.

That is not going to happen, and I would even be worried about enforcement of those laws b/c bet they will use it charge black folks who call for domestic violence situation and then refuse to press charges when the cops arrive, or if you call the police to report something and when the police finally arrive 2 hours…

I agree with you except for one point; instead of ticketing and fining them, they should be given the sentence for the crime they attempted to frame someone for.

If that 911 call isn’t attempted murder by cop, I don’t know what it is.

I agree with this point. The solution to mitigate this mess is to have the law punish these racists who use police like they were dogs to “sic’em” at people they deem less worthy of the pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness.

I couldn’t agree more, I said this to a cop when I watched one of these shitshows go down and just got a get the fuck outta here look and he walked off. I was at a WalMart about a month ago. 3 am just got off work standing in the self checkout line. 3 black men early 20's in front of me and an old white woman between…

Calling the cops black people is tantamount to attempted murder. Those jackbooted thugs could have shot those babies and not given it a second thought!

As I have said and written and yelled about from every outlet known to man. People making false calls to police for harassment should be ticketed and fined. It’s in the law. Filing a false report is a crime. This doesn’t require re-inventing the wheel, and I promise any city council person or mayor who runs with a…

For the other white people in the grays:

She tried to HIDE! Hahahahahahahahahahaha!

What are the odds that this woman would gush over white kids selling lemonade.

As a public service, I encourage the readers of The Root, as well as the writers of The Root -the Rooterians or Rooterattis, whatever you fancy - to:

The ‘whole story’ doesn’t even matter. I don’t care what the kid was doing, you don’t tell a 10 year old they are going to get shot.

God fucking dammit. This shit pisses me the fuck off. I teach kids who have lived through severe trauma and I would be lying if I said that the track of their home life, the things they have witnessed at a young age that would send a shiver down your spine, and their lack of support system may mean that some of them…

Agreed. Using the activity that woman complained about and turning it up to 11. Well done!