If former boxing champ Mike Tyson had his way, neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman would have been dragged out of his house, chained to a car and taken away to be shot. But this is not a perfect world.
Zimmerman was arrested Wednesday and charged with 2nd degree murder in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. It’s a charge that legal experts are already saying will be difficult for the prosecution to prove.
In an interview with Yahoo News, Tyson compared Zimmerman to a bully who prowled his gated community, stalking young black men.
“My personal feeling is that, as a young kid that was beat on by a bully, that was pretty much singled out—the guy [Zimmerman] stalked him, didn’t follow instructions from a superior officer, when they said, ‘Stop following the kid.’ That tells you everything right there,” he said.
Tyson added: “It’s a disgrace that man hasn’t been shot yet. Forget about him being arrested–the fact that he hasn’t been shot yet is a disgrace. That’s how I feel personally about it.”
Calling laws like ‘Stand Your Ground’ a “disgrace to a nation of savages,” Tyson said God planned a world where an eye for an eye was the unwritten law of the land.
“It’s a majority versus a minority. That’s the way God planned it. He didn’t want to do something about it, He wanted us to do something about it. And if we don’t, it’s gonna stay this way,” Tyson said.
From Yahoo News:
“My personal feeling is that, as a young kid that was beat on by a bully, that was pretty much singled out—the guy [Zimmerman] stalked him, didn’t follow instructions from a superior officer, when they said, ‘Stop following the kid.’ That tells you everything right there. But my all-around perspective, I wasn’t there, I don’t know what happened. But it’s just so widespread and overt what happened. Even though this is the best country in the world, certain laws in this country are a disgrace to a nation of savages. It’s a majority versus a minority. That’s the way God planned it. He didn’t want to do something about it, He wanted us to do something about it. And if we don’t, it’s gonna stay this way. We have to continue tweeting, we have to continue marching, we have to continue fighting for Trayvon Martin. If that’s not the case, he was killed in vain, and we’re just waiting for it to happen to our children. He’ll have gotten away with impunity. It’s a disgrace that man hasn’t been dragged out of his house and tied to a car and taken away. That’s the only kind of retribution that people like that understand. It’s a disgrace that man hasn’t been shot yet. Forget about him being arrested–the fact that he hasn’t been shot yet is a disgrace. That’s how I feel personally about it.”
