No, The Thomas/Copley Shooting Isn’t “Zimmerman 2.0.” It’s MUCH Worse.

By Bob Owens

An attorney (above, right) specializing in high profile shootings is comparing the shooting of Kouren-Rodney Bernard Thomas by Chad Copley to the shooting of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman.

A high-profile attorney representing the family of a 20-year-old man who police say was shot and killed by a homeowner likened the case to the Florida shooting of Trayvon Martin during an emotional news conference Thursday.

Attorney Justin Bamberg referred to Chad Copley, the man charged in the Raleigh shooting, as “George Zimmerman 2.0.” Zimmerman was a self-proclaimed neighborhood watchman who was charged with killing Martin during an altercation in 2012. He was later exonerated.

Copley has been charged with first-degree murder in the early Sunday shooting in North Raleigh of Kouren-Rodney Bernard Thomas. Police say Thomas was shot when Copley fired a shotgun from inside his garage.

Flanked by family members of Thomas on Thursday, Bamberg said he is confident that justice will be served for the man’s family. He commended the Raleigh Police Department for charging Copley, who claimed he was a neighborhood watchman and was protecting his family from a bunch of “hoodlums.”

The comparison made by Thomas family attorney Justin Bamberg is emotionally manipulative, intentionally deceptive, and very disrespectful of …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms