Originally Posted By WilliamK99 Not theoretically. In reality. Absolutely he was. << Links and proof or it didn't happen...
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Except it did. You only have to listen to the defense's case. They were trying Martin the whole time. Sometimes it was subtle, but other times it wasn't even particularly so. They constantly posited all sorts of scenarios about what Martin did that night that weren't proven AT ALL, with only Zimmerman's story (which wasn't even consistent) to back them up. Stoking the same assumptions about Martin in the jury's minds that we know Zimmerman had, or he wouldn't have followed him in the first place (and referred to him - even AFTER he shot him dead and found out he was unarmed - as "the suspect.") If you think the defense didn't put Martin on trial, I don't know what to tell you.
Originally Posted By ecdc Today Obama comments on race, and white people explode in anger telling the first black President he shouldn't comment on race. If that doesn't tell you how far we still have to go, I don't know what will.
Originally Posted By ecdc <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/19/obama-zimmerman-verdict_n_3624504.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...504.html</a> Watch the video. It's powerful and it is so spot on, spoken by someone who's been there.
