Huffington Post: It took nearly a year’s worth of violent physical abuse before Marissa Alexander decided to stand her ground against her husband.
On Aug. 1, 2010, her husband cornered her in their Jacksonville, Fla., home. Alexander said she ran to the garage to escape, but the garage door was jammed, so Alexander grabbed a pistol. Her husband, Rico Gray, 36, saw the gun and threatened to kill her, Alexander would later say in court documents.
Fearing for her life, she raised the pistol above her head and squeezed the trigger, the crackle of gunfire pelting the kitchen ceiling.
While the shooting may have gotten Alexander out of one jam, it put her in another: She has been in a Florida jail since 2010 awaiting a mandatory sentence of 20 years in prison for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Seems these right to murder laws only work if 1) you actually kill somebody and 2) if you're white.
If it's Zimmerman you're comparing this to, he's Mexican.
ReplyDeleteAnon. Not according to the police report. For whatever reason, they thought he was white. And they didn't arrest him. Had he been black and the dead, unarmed teenager white, he would have been arrested in a second and probably beat to a bloody pulp at the police station. Stand your ground only works in Florida if you're white.
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