>>>>>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)
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>>>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.
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>>This has nothing to do with the jury. This has to do with a society that tolerates reacting to jury verdicts (or sports championships) with looting and pillaging against people who were in no way involved.
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>No offense but this is maybe the dumbest thing I have ever heard you say. For one thing it assumes a guilty verdict, something which is as yet unknown. More seriously, it indicates an unseemly attitude about race.
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>Out.

First, I've said a lot of things dumber than this - you must not be paying attention <s>

Second, it would actually assume a not-guilty verdict. A guilty verdict would mean a racist murderer ( according to some aggrieved community leaders ) had been found guilty - though man-slaughter many not be enough.

The assumption is the innocent youth was killed because he was black. If his killer is found not guilty, it could be seen as a reason for outrage. If you were around for things like the Rodney King verdict you may remember Los Angeles became a very bad place to be a Korean who owned a store that sold TV sets, as many were liberated by citizens expressing their outrage at the white cops who were acquitted.

Again, I have no opinion about the case just as I have no opinion about Jodi Arias or what kind of bassinet the Karashian child should have.

I just think media circuses bring out the clowns.