Comments on: Marissa Alexander Shows How Stand Your Ground Laws Fail Black Women

By: Jean Allen

Jean Allen — Sun, 20 May 2012 16:49:07 +0000

I read she used a weapon while in the commission of a felony.

I don’t understand what felony was she committing. She had a license to carry a concealed weapon, she was in her own home, she asked him to leave, he was in the act of coming toward her even though she warned him. It sounds like she was afraid for her life.

By: Kayla Sonergoran

Kayla Sonergoran — Fri, 04 May 2012 22:45:33 +0000

This is just very disturbing. This deserves national media attention even more because this is an innocent life we could actually save.

This current court culture is punishing good people while letting bad people free. Its twisted and makes no sense.

Remind me to never live in an evil state like florida. I mean 20 years for shooting a gun? She was trying to protect her home.

People always talk about black men, but if you ask me, we black women are at far greater risk of being screwed by the US government.

By: Zaharah

Zaharah — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:51:07 +0000

@Mic This is an open forum where we get to express our opinions. I don’t know Ms. Alexander and have no reason to vilify her. If you read my post, you would have seen my comment about the disparity in the justice system for Black people.

By: MIcNic1

MIcNic1 — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 20:18:16 +0000

I think you’re just going out of your way to try to vilanize this woman in your alleged attempts to “side with the law”, as if that in itself is some objective measure of perfection. Laws contains biases just like the people that decide to whom they should apply.

By: MOVING Up

MOVING Up — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 13:05:05 +0000

Not trying to make it race thing..but is the estrange husband white?

By: lgb0916

lgb0916 — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:15:12 +0000

if you read the “order denying defendants motion for immunity and motion to dismiss” for the Marissa Alexander stand your ground case…youll see a diff picture than what the media and Marissa Alexander are painting. and the fact that she shot the gun where him AND his kids were is even worse. this one is definitely not about race or a miscarriage of justice. and after she was arrested and posted bail,she kept contacting the husband even tho she wasnt supposed to and she went to his house and attacked him.

By: Zaharah

Zaharah — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:44:55 +0000

@Rita – It’s the same as going outside to your patio or deck.

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By: Guest

Guest — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 11:41:39 +0000

This is friggin RIDICULOUS! I was just watching one of those crime shows and there was a case where 2 white teenagers who lived on the upper east side massacred some guy in the park. They cut him open and left his entrails hanging out and then filled his body with rocks and garbage. Then they dumped his body in the lake and went home to clean up. A police officer happened to be at their home and saw them covered in blood, but they lied and said they fell down and got bruised up. Then one of them decides to rat the other out and guess how many years they got? SIX YEARS! THESE CRAZY MOFOS ARE WALKING AROUND RIGHT NOW.

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/25/nyregion/second-teen-ager-to-be-sentenced-in-97-stabbing-death-in-central-park.html?_r=1

Something is really wrong with America’s legal system. I mean 6 years for some white teenagers who massacre a complete stranger on a whim and 20 years for a black woman who fires off a warning shot to someone who she has a protection order against! WTF man? God help this country. This isn’t justice.

By: Deb

Deb — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 04:35:53 +0000

Correct me if I’m wrong, wasn’t she under the impression he was leaving out the front door,but when she went back into the house he was entering the kitchen alone? Doesn’t sound like he was leaving.