{"id":36633,"date":"2013-07-17T10:18:59","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T17:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=36633"},"modified":"2013-07-17T10:18:59","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T17:18:59","slug":"after-zimmerman-verdict-eyes-turn-to-marissa-alexander-sentenced-to-20-years-for-firing-a-gun-that-killed-no-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/07\/17\/after-zimmerman-verdict-eyes-turn-to-marissa-alexander-sentenced-to-20-years-for-firing-a-gun-that-killed-no-one\/","title":{"rendered":"After Zimmerman Verdict, Eyes Turn To Marissa Alexander, Sentenced to 20 Years for Firing a Gun that Killed No One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20130717NewsflashMahajan\/2013_07_17_marissa_alexander.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20130717NewsflashMahajan\/2013_07_17_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/marissa_alexander.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>When George Zimmerman was acquitted of all charges even though he killed Trayvon Martin, his action was seen as a \u201cjustifiable homicide.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>A recent study of Stand-Your-Ground laws that Zimmerman initially invoked found that the \u201cscenario with the highest probability of being a justified homicide is much like the Martin case\u2014a single, White civilian handgun shooter who is a stranger to (and older than) the Black victim.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Activists are calling attention to the racist double standard by which these laws are applied and many are now pointing to the case of Marissa Alexander, a 32 year old African American mother in Jacksonville, Florida, who fired a warning shot to deter her abusive husband and was sentenced to 20 years in prison even though she claimed she was defending herself. No one was killed or even injured in the altercation. <\/p>\n<p>While Alexander\u2019s family members are declining all interview requests, her attorney Bruce Zimet who is in charge of her appeals process, shared his thoughts about the case with me. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Bruce Zimet, attorney for Marissa Alexander<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/justiceformarissa.blogspot.com\">justiceformarissa.blogspot.com<\/a> for more information about the movement to free Marissa Alexander. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When George Zimmerman was acquitted of all charges even though he killed Trayvon Martin, his action was seen as a \u201cjustifiable homicide.\u201d A recent study of Stand-Your-Ground laws that Zimmerman initially invoked found that the \u201cscenario with the highest probability of being a justified homicide is much like the Martin case\u2014a single, White civilian handgun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36651,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36633\/revisions\/36651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}