Florida Stand Your Ground Shooting

[Rev. Rye]

Given that guys they would seem to like, including Chuck Norris, SWAT teams, and most armed forces, including both ours and Israel's [N.B.: escalation (the hallmark of their more infamous campaigns) is not the same as aggression (which they haven't done since 1956)] follow the "pussy response", that shows how off base they really are.

SWAT teams have been known to break into a house, shoot the first person they see and only then wonder if they are in the wrong house.

I'm no fan of over-militarized cops in any situation.

Some do, some don't. The thing is, some SWAT teams go the opposite route. Honestly, I can't know how common each scenario is, but I know that enough work in the opposite direction that people in law enforcement joke that SWAT really stands for "Sit, Wait, and Talk." And that's why I included SWAT in my list. I'm well aware that there's a right way and a wrong way to do shit like this in wrong enforcement, and the fact that a lot don't bother to do it the right way doesn't invalidate that. And, of course, vice versa.

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And since I just looked this up, I have to make a correction: the girlfriend who parked in the handicapped space is, in fact, black. I misidentified her as white because the articles about it don't mention her race (while her boyfriend's race is mentioned constantly) or show her picture, and, to be totally honest, "Brittany Jacobs" doesn't sound black. A simple GIS search proved me wrong on this case. That said, I can't be sure that's enough of an indication that he knew in advance that she'd have a boyfriend who'd beat the crap out of him before he picked a fight with her.