re: #148 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Indiana man shot after defending Confederate flag with a machete isn’t a racist, friend insists

According to witnesses, the victim drove his white SUV into the parking lot of a convenience store in a largely black neighborhood….
A group of black men at the convenience store started shouting what Baker called “white racial slurs” at the victim and “provoking him about the flag,” which compelled him to pull a machete from the back of his vehicle.

Okay, I already got the RW spin on this: he was assaulted for exercising his right to free speech…what is Obama’s America coming to, will they try to ban the CSA flag entirely?

Jeez.

We are too stupid for free speech.

“He had absolutely no weapon on him,” Baker said, “except the machete.”

And I’m guessing a big ass truck
Indiana’s “Stand Your Ground” law provides, in part,

that “[a] person is justified in using reasonable force against any other person to protect the person or a third person from what the person reasonably believes to be the imminent use of unlawful force.” However, a person “is justified in using deadly force”, and does not have “a duty to retreat”, if the person “reasonably believes” that deadly force is “necessary to prevent serious bodily injury to the person or a third person or the commission of a forcible felony.” This law makes it clear that “[n]o person in this state shall be placed in legal jeopardy of any kind whatsoever for protecting the person or a third person by reasonable means necessary.”