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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I don't know who Digital Journal is, but an interesting article about this case being tried in the court of public opinion and the media's role in it including a I guess unedited copy of the 9/11 call and discussions around the amount of editing that's happened to this tape by the media
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/321817
Different groups calling for hate crime charges, some people come out in Zimmerman's defense
http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2012/...urorry/?page=1
More from CBS
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_1...ly-remorseful/
I don't know, this thing is getting a bit silly with the Black Panther's offering a bounty on Zimmerman, and the whole charge him with a hate crime aspect.
You can't start arresting people and charging them with hate crimes because of public opinion, the justice system is suppossed to be above public opinion.
I think this is a case of a moron with a gun trying to be a cop, I think this is a case of a teenager making a bad decision (I know this makes me look bad, but 1. I learned early that you don't charge a person unless you know what that person's state of mind is, and if he's packing. 2) I'm going off of the theory that the stories about Zimmerman's injuries and torn shirt are true.)
I think this was a tragic confluence of events, a guy that was legally licenced to carry a gun and appointed to a neighbourhood watch program who shouldn't have had a fire arm, who made a bad probably hyped up judgement call, a teenage boy who made a decision that wasn't a good decision.
I very much doubt that this falls into a hate crime.
Because of the job that the media has done on this and the various groups have done on this ie Black Panthers, Al Sharpton (again!!), the invesigations and the steps forward are probably not going to gain a conviction, and if they do there will be questions about a fair trial. How the F would you even sit a jury in this case without it being a appealed either which way along racial lines?
What this has shown me, is the amount of mistrust and anger along racial lines in the states that is happening to this day, and that's the biggest tragedy in this whole thing. |
1. Who exactly has been charged with a hate crime?
2. Interesting that you're willing to jump to conclusions and believe select bits of evidence when they agree with how you've decided that this scenario played out.
Even if I believe that Zimmerman has a torn shirt and was 'charged' are you seriously sitting there and suggesting that fighting back against a psychopath who comes at you with a gun is a bad decision? You would have just stood there and took it? I find that incredibly hard to believe. You have no idea when the gun entered the equation, you have no idea who charged who, and actually none of us do because we're dealing with a police force that took a 'nothing to see here' approach to the death of a 17 year old boy walking home from the store.
As for the ability to sit a jury, there have been numerous cases with racial tones that have been successfully tried despite the mass media coverage they received.