Sunday, July 14, 2013

There is no blood on that teenagers hands. How lucky he was to fall into the grass.


There is no blood in the grass either. Why was there no blood anywhere? Because gunshots to the heart stops the heart. There was no pump. The only blood that would be coming out of his chest would be expressed/pushed out of his chest. His blood was now pooling inside his chest creating pressure against any chance of restarting the heart. The heart has to have room inside the chest to move. The pooling of blood was making that impossible.

He spent his last minutes of life in fear. In fear of his life. He knew he was profiled by then. His racial remarks were due to the feeling he had having been profiled. It was a description of his assailant. He didn't know if he died that anyone besides Rachel would know who did it. His reaction to being profiled by a crazy ass cracker was to defend himself and his killer walks free. The USA is a great country. Great country, indeed!

TJ is correct. Fear is a form of pain. And now we know that when a Black Man in the USA feels fear it is painful. Fear is a painful experience. It is not an experience anyone wants to repeat. Fear works to galvanize a person's reaction. Fight or flight. Trayvon Martin knew he was going to die. Now, who's voice was that? Who stopped breathing with the firing of the gun? The young man with a stopped heart and blood pouring into his chest compressed his lungs and ended his ability to push air out of his vocal cords. That is who was yelling for help. I don't anyone to tell me that. 

There were healthcare professionals on the jury, at least one was a nurse. They should have understood the hemodynamics of the chest.