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Wow, this is so sad. I don't get how people can do this.

We see too many stories like this. The Castle Doctrine is an interesting allowance to have in Wisconsin. We are one of the last states to adopt this, but it has been in most states for a very long time.

On 31 May, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a 13-year-old boy named Darius Simmons was allegedly shot to death by 75-year-old John Henry Spooner, right in front of the boy's mother, Patricia Larry. Spooner had confronted Darius as he was taking out the trash and accused the kid of stealing from his home.

Too many shootings of young black men in Milwaukee. Can anyone look up the police record?

This is a really good article and a good example of what Walter Mosley was talking about in his article about how the media picks and chooses news stories to become National news. How come I didn't hear about this story, but I heard about the Trayvon Martin story. They happened only a week apart. This story only reinforces what Mosley was saying in his article "Walter Mosley on Trayvon Martin Case and Racial Identity."