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Key mistakes sway jury in Zimmerman trial : Comments

By Marjorie Cohn, published 19/7/2013

But the judge sanitized the case and everyone involved was forced to ignore the elephant in the room.

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Cherry picking evidence..... Disgraceful! Whatever is laid before the court, someone like you, thousands of miles from the courtroom, will inevitably find 'racism' to be the simplistic, ever present answer to the barrow you push.
Posted by Prompete, Friday, 19 July 2013 4:33:13 PM
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Wow, I'm almost speechless at the ignorance and unabashed bias of the author, here are some realistic comments from some men who actually know what they're talking about. As Tommy Sotomayor points out, it's truly open season on Black men in the U.S.A and the hunters are invariably other Black men, I'd add that if Trayvon was living in Afghanistan he'd be considered a man of fighting age and be a legitimate military target in the U.S rules of engagement, he was not a child and he wasn't "harmless".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF0d12WtIRs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix1Xr8QHpRw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-cTLUCIMpo
Posted by Jay Of Melbourne, Friday, 19 July 2013 5:53:38 PM
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Pompete,
George Zimmerman was more or less correct in his profiling of Trayvon Martin, the only thing he got wrong was his age, because Trayvon was so tall (some say 6'3") and heavily built he mistook him for a man his own age. Does anyone seriously believe that Zimmerman, who had previously given his time to mentor Black children would have hunted down and "murdered" the little 11 year old boy shown by the media in place of the fully grown man with the moustache, gold teeth and the muscle shirt who lay dead at his feet that night?
Posted by Jay Of Melbourne, Friday, 19 July 2013 6:04:40 PM
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Zimmerman stalked and confronted Travyon with a gun, not the other way round. Any struggle that ensued – even if started by Travyon – would almost certainly have been in response to Zimmerman’s initiated aggression. Yet the prosecuting attorney, Angela Corey, allowed the Stand Your Ground defence plea.

Contrast this with another Florida trial presided over by the same prosecuting attorney.

Marissa Alexander – a black woman with a masters degree – fired a warning shot at her estranged husband during a domestic argument. No one was hurt; she had a restraining order against him, which he had violated by being in the home; and he admitted in a statement to police that during the argument he threatened to kill her.

Corey rejected the Stand Your Ground plea on the basis that Alexander could have fled the scene. The charge was changed to Aggravated Assault with a Weapon, leaving the jury no choice but to convict her and the judge to apply the mandatory sentence of 20 years.

When you compare this mind-boggling miscarriage of justice with the leniency given to Zimmerman, there are two fundamental prejudices at work here:

1. White men are within their rights to stalk and threaten black men, but black men are not within their rights to defend themselves.

2. Husbands have a right to stalk and threaten their estranged wives, but wives are not within their rights to defend themselves
Posted by Killarney, Friday, 19 July 2013 7:03:55 PM
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Killarney, sorry but you're a sucker.
George Zimmerman is not White,he has African and Amerindian ancestry on his mother's side, Zimmerman is the name he took from his Jewish stepfather, he's actually darker skinned than Louis Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton, the media have photoshopped his pictures to make him look lighter.This is what he really looks like:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/images/george-zimmerman-friends.jpg
That's George in the Black shirt with what looks to be his younger brother and some of his many Negro friends. This is his great grandfather:
http://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/p280x280/21340_683208758362771_146106029_n.jpg
Race was never the issue in this case, Zimmerman is one of the good guys, Trayvon was a bad guy, here's another broadcast from Stefan Molyneux and Peter Schiff which discusses the facts of the case in a sane manner:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfZ2PBLGFhc
Posted by Jay Of Melbourne, Friday, 19 July 2013 8:09:10 PM
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Thanks Jay. Regardless of anything else the race card being played is absolutely fantastically ridiculous.

Zimmerman is just as much, maybe even more so, a member of an "oppressed minority" than the so-called "black" victim.

Just goes to illustrate how twisted, illogical and abused the whole concept of "Racism" has become
Posted by divine_msn, Friday, 19 July 2013 11:25:36 PM
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