profiling

[Jonathan Lighter]

Brooke Baldwin of CNN had a brief discussion about this with former
 prosecutor and "multi-platform journalist" (its says here)  Sunny Hostin.
 Baldwin seemed to think that the choice of phrase "was profiled" over "was
racially profiled" might be "extremely significant."  In the fifteen-second
interchange, I couldn't tell if Hostin (usually on top of things on her CNN
"platform") was agreeing, disagreeing, or not quite seeing the point.

JL

On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 3:36 PM, victor steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> That's not the only bidirectional issue. Under Florida law, it is possible
> for both people in a confrontation of this sort to claim self-defense under
> the Stand Your Ground statute, but only one of them would win the lottery.
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> Since self-defense is not available to an aggressor, this is going to be an
> important point of legal contention. Zimmerman will undoubtedly claim that
> the "confrontation" in which he was in fear of imminent danger to himself
> started when he was punched in the face. It is the prosecution's job to
> either prove that he had provoked the punch directly or that the
> confrontation started when Zimmerman started following Martin--and,
> therefore, it was Martin who would have been able to claim self-defense,
> had he managed to kill Zimmerman.
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> VS-)
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> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com
> >wrote:
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> > A friend's interpretation: "They were probably profiling each other. Each
> > one thought the other was acting suspicious."
> >
> > JL
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