>>What say you, citizens? I would have a hard time deciding.
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>>The jury decision is expected today.
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>I'd say if I were an Asian in Florida who owned an electronics or sporting goods store I'd be calling in the cousins right now to lock and load and get on the roof.
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>( I have no opinion about the verdict as I, like anyone who was not there including the jury, have very little information about the truth of the matter. But as a student of media drum-beating, manipulating of public opinion for agendas that have nothing to do with the truth, and the idea that being aggrieved - or pretending to be so - is supposed to be a free pass for barbarous behavior I am pessimistic about the result, no matter which way it goes)

You are more pessimistic than me. Juries get it wrong sometimes but I have faith in the system. I would not bet my life on what happened, either way. As you say, we have very little information about the actual truth of the matter.