Florida's Stand your Ground law

I would suggest educating yourself before posting.

I never experienced racism until I moved to Florida. We have a neighborhood association and a neighborhood watch. I use to get the monthly newsletters emailed. I was tired of hearing everyone talk because they saw a suspicious African American person in the neighborhood, describing him and asking others to watch out for him and call the police.

I finally did a reply all to everyone on the mailing list and told them if they see a shaved headed Puerto Rican around my house not to call the police and report him, he’s just my husband.

They took me off their email list after that.

Described as 6' 2", 140 pounds. He was a beanpole. Have you any idea how thin you are if you're that tall and weigh that little. Zimmerman is pescribed as 200 pounds, that's half again as much as Trayvon. Older than Trayvon, considerably burlier than Trayvon, and with a gun. Trayvon had a bag of Skittles and a cellphone, on which he was talking to his girlfriend. He was where he had every right to be, and no one has said he was doing anything he shouldn't be doing, no one has come up with any suggestion there was anything needing immediate intervention, which Zimmerman had no training, authorization, or right for anyway. If he had sat in his car, as the cops told him to do, there would have been no murder. If there had been no guns at hand, there would have been no murder.
Just get rid of ALL the goddamned guns.

"The witness."

Never mind that there are multiple other witnesses who state that it was Trayvon calling for help.

I was looking for other news about this case and came across this article:

http://www.examiner.com/charleston-conservative-in-charleston-sc/zimmerman-was-on-the-ground-being-punched-when-he-shot-trayvon-martin

I'm wondering how much of the information is true. Was this kid really 6'2"? Did a witness see Trayvon on top of Zimmerman punching him? Was there grass stains on Zimmermans back?

It's called "stand your ground"

If murder is committed within the borders of a state, that state has jurisdiction. Similarly, if the crime is committed in the District of Columbia, the D.C Superior Court (the equivalent of a state court in the District) retains jurisdiction, though in some cases involving U.S. government property or personnel, the federal courts may have exclusive jurisdiction.[1] If the victim is a federal official, an ambassador, consul or other foreign official under the protection of the United States, or if the crime took place on federal property or involved crossing state lines, or in a manner that substantially affects interstate commerce or national security, then the federal government also has jurisdiction. If a crime is not committed within any state, then Federal jurisdiction is exclusive: examples include naval or U.S.-flagged merchant vessels in international waters and U.S. military bases worldwide. In addition, murder by a member of the United States military anywhere in the world is a violation of Article 118 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice and can result in a servicemember suspected of murder being tried by a general court-martial. In cases where a murder involves both state and federal jurisdiction, the offender can be tried and punished separately for each crime without raising issues of double jeopardy, unless the court believes that the new prosecution is merely a "sham" forwarded by the prior prosecutor.[2]

So I will ask again, why is the FBI involved. This crime didn't take place on federal land and Trayvon wasn't a federal officer, employee or an ambassador.

Comprehend how the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution allows the federal courts to become involved in cases arising in state courts and how, subsequently, this allows the two systems to interact.

http://www.uscourts.gov/EducationalResources/FederalCourtBasics/CourtStructure/UnderstandingFederalAndStateCourts.aspx

Do you have a link?

Further, it seems to me that Trayvon, according to this law,
had every right to beat the crap out of Zimmerman.

Zimmerman had no right to accost the kid, and was the aggressor.

I wonder if the term coon is racist.

Obama weighed in today in response to a question from a reporter on this, and the commentary on the right-wing side of the web in response has been nothing short of stunning and disgusting. There really is both a deep-seated hatred of Obama and a huge current of white racial resentment fueling the GOP right now.
Cycloptichorn

Glad to hear that, David. So you won't be all that upset when the rest of us return him for a well-deserved second term.