>>>>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.
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>>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.
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>>Tamar
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>As I asked Dorris, please provide the full timeline and evidence since you know all the facts. Obviously the press, the New Black Panthers, the Messiah, and everyone else who looked to lynch the guy have all the facts.
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I don't know all the facts. But I do know that he wasn't lynched because he's still alive and not in the hospital.


>Zimmerman had a bounty placed on him by the new Black Panthers. Zimmerman was lynched by NBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, and God knows how many other news organizations that were trying to make a buck off another media created racist event.
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>Of course, if the tables were turned, anyone speaking ill of the poor disenfranchised black youth who shot a mean old white (shh - don't mention hispanic because that would make it not racist) guy in obvious self defense would be racist and trying to lynch the poor child.
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>Did Zimmerman do something wrong? Could be. Maybe it was deliberate. Maybe he is just stupid. Maybe he was on his back with the other guy on top of him breaking his nose (oops sorry - shouldn't bring other sides to this lynching into it).

And this paragraph is the key point. We don't know what happened and whether Zimmerman was justified or not. Apparently, the prosecutor, who has seen all the evidence, thinks he was not. (If she were prosecuting just to be make a show and quiet the critics, surely the charge would be manslaughter, not murder 2. That's what pretty much everyone expected.)

Now the justice system will do what it's supposed to, produce the evidence in a public trial and allow a jury to decide whether Zimmerman was justified or not. As for finding a jury, an online poll proves nothing; people who care about the issue vote in those. Never underestimate the ignorance of the American public; I don't think they'll have trouble finding a jury of people who know little or nothing about the case.

>Personally I'll wait and see how the American justice system works rather than having a public lynching.

That's what's happening now.

Tamar