>>But it's ok for a man calling himself a member of the neighborhood watch chasing down, after being told not to by the police, a youth (wearing a 'hoodie') walking back from the store "armed" with Skittles and an Ice Tea, shot and killed him.
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>>That's what it really sounds like you're saying, repeatedly.
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>>Unless what you are trying to say is that the way this case got blown all out of proportion so quickly (one month later) is a sad statement on today's media - which is the point many people of all races have made. Or, asking why THIS case, and not all the other questionable cases that have probably happened since this one that aren't getting national media attention.
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>Lynching was supposedly outlawed in this country many decades ago.
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>String him up.
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Using the term "lynching" over and over doesn't make it one. If he'd really been lynched, he'd be dead or in a hospital somewhere. Instead, he's been charged with a crime, based on the evidence available to the prosecutor. He'll have his day in court, and if, in fact, things happened as he said, he'll be acquitted.

Leo Frank was lynched. So were Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith. In each case, a mob broke into the jail, took the object(s) of the lynching and hung them.

Tamar