We See Lies When we stop allowing ourselves to be blind to what’s true then we will see real progress.

GlobalGrind is deeply concerned about the death of 20 year old, Bo Morrison in the early hours of March 3rd in the small Wisconsin town of Slinger (population 3910). Protected under the “Castle Doctrine, ” an outshoot of Florida’s Stand Your Ground law, Bo’s killer, Adam Kind is a free man.

Here is what we know:

There was an underage drinking party at the home of Tim Hess, the neighbor of Mr. Kind, which Bo was attending.  It was Mr. Hess’ daughters who were the hosts of the party.  Kind, 35, called police at about 1:00AM, complaining of loud music coming from a car parked in his neighbor’s driveway. He pounded on the window of the car and asked a woman inside to turn down the music. She refused.  The police arrive on the scene at 1:05AM.

For 45 minutes, the police try to get into the garage in the back of the Hess house, where the young people are partying, but to no avail.  They leave the garage area, but park their cars just a few hundred feet away from both the Hess house and the Kind home.

At 1:50AM, the police call Adam Kind and explain that they will cite the party hosts in the morning. They speak with Adam for 4 1/2 minutes. The police say he was appreciative and would give a statement in the morning.  Mr. Kind claims he went back to sleep with his wife.

At 1:55AM, the father of the party’s host come outside and kicks down the door of the garage and all of the young people run. Bo runs and hides in the Adam Kind’s enclosed porch in the back of his house.

At 1:56AM Bo is shot dead. The police cars are still outside the house. Bo is killed while the cops are only a few hundred feet from the house.

At 2:00AM Adam’s wife calls 911 to report the shooting.

As we examine the facts in the case, we are troubled that Mr. Kind had called the police three times during the evening, visited the underage drinking party that was happening next door to his home, received a 4 1/2 call from the police after they have arrived on the scene, and still came out of his house with a Colt 45, ultimately shooting Bo, who was hiding in his enclosed porch.

Read more: http://globalgrind.com/news/bo-morrison-shot-killed-wisconsin-law-stand-your-ground-trayvon-martin-details#ixzz1t4p3lzKK

CBS News) SANFORD, Fla. – A judge granted bail for George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer charged with killing Florida teenager Trayvon Martin, but would not allow his release Friday, citing further discussions needed about the terms, including whether or not he would be allowed out of state.

Circuit Judge Kenneth Lester also said that Zimmerman must not have any contact with the victim’s family; must wear an ankle monitoring bracelet; and adhere to a 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew. The judge’s order also states that Zimmerman cannot be in possession of firearms and must not consume alcohol or controlled substances.

Taking the stand during the hearing at the Seminole County Criminal Justice Center, Zimmerman addressed the parents of Martin, who were seated in court: “I wanted to say that I am sorry for the loss of your son.

“I did not know how old he was,” he said. “I thought he was a little bit younger than I am. And I did not know whether he was armed or not.”

President Obama’s election was supposed to be a signal that the United States was ready to put its painful racial history in the past. Instead, it seems the nation has moved backward as it continues to grapple with issues like racial profiling.

How and why it continues to occur, and the subsequent repercussions like the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin, will be the topic of a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights hearing on April 17. It will be the first hearing on racial profiling since the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

“[The subcommittee] will explore how profiling harms law enforcement and the different faces of racial profiling, including state immigration laws in Alabama and Arizona that subject Hispanic-Americans to heightened scrutiny, discriminatory law enforcement against African-Americans and anti-terrorism efforts that target American Muslims,” said subcommittee Chairman Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Illinois).

The Trayvon Martin case did not spark the hearing, although it will certainly come up given its high-profile status. It also will examine proposed solutions to ending racial profiling, such as the End Racial Profiling Act, closing loopholes in the Justice Department’s racial profiling guidance and the agency’s Civil Rights Division’s enforcement of federal civil rights laws to prevent state and local law enforcement agencies from profiling, according to a subcommittee advisory.

A witness list has not yet been posted, but according to a report in The Post and Courier, Dot Scott, president of the Charleston, South Carolina, NAACP, has been invited to testify. She has been a vocal critic of local efforts to crack down on crime in poor, Black neighborhoods, which she’s characterized is in some instances “harassment of good citizens.”

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