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Old 07-16-2013, 11:02 AM   #902
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Originally Posted by Cowperson View Post
In testimony to the FBI, Detective Sorino, aside from giving an opinion that race probably wasn't a factor in Zimmerman's decision-making that night, said five burglaries in the neighbourhood in the prior year and a half were linked to a gang called the "Goons" who typically wore hoodies.

Detective Sorino felt that was reason enough for a neighbourhood watch captain to be suspicious of someone in a hoody wandering around in the rain late at night.

Sorino's comments to the FBI are here:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/file/serino-fbi-report

Interestingly, in his testimony to the FBI, Sorino says he would have preferred Zimmerman stayed in his vehicle waiting for law enforcement OR, second option, go up to Martin and "identified himself as a concerned citizen and initiated dialog in an effort to dispel each party's concern."

As well, the one juror who has spoken was asked directly if race was an issue in deliberations among the six of them - she said none of them brought up race as relevent topic to the facts under consideration.

Zimmerman mentored two black children earlier in his life and a black woman testified on his behalf at the trial.

Black America probably has plenty of other examples of racial profiling in the country to promote their justifiable cause. Why their leaders would be latching onto this very tenuous case to further their cause is both odd and starting to look painfully ridiculous.

When a black President and a black Attorney General quietly let a call for a Federal hate crime probe die a natural, deserved death in the coming months, that should be pretty telling.

Cowperson
She also referred to Martin as "a boy of color", so there's that.

I don't think this case was, or should have been, predominantly about race, but to pretend it's not part of it is ridiculous.
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