Zimmerman verdict: a green light for racist vigilantes

[OregonBlue]

This verdict allows every paranoid, sub-intelligent, vigilante with a gun to go on victimizing black youth.

Zimmerman’s stooges and apologists claim that his deadly encounter had nothing do with race. And that his trial and acquittal have nothing to do with race. His defenders effectively portrayed him as a hapless Samaritan who got in over his head. Meanwhile, they tarred Trayvon as a menace who failed to properly justify his existence.

How does an armed adult defy the policy, chase down a youth, kill him, and then turn around and call it self defense? Defense from what? A fleeing kid? Was Trayvon Martin seen for his humanity? Or as a “fucking punk”? Are black men seen for our humanity or as three-fifths of a fucking punk? This verdict will have devastating consequences. It is an implicit green light for every paranoid, sub-intelligent, vigilante racist to go on victimizing black youth. Trayvon Martin is dead for no reason other than being black.

Why do Zimmerman and some Americans feel entitled to police black and brown people like vigilantes? Why did the Sanford Police Department test a dead boy’s body for drugs in “standard operating procedure,” yet failed to test a live man’s body for alcohol or drugs? Why did the Sanford Police Department fail so miserably during the critical immediate hours after arriving on the scene?

http://www.salon.com/2013/07/14/how_power_works_in_america/

Great read.

[Skittles]

1. I am most sickened by our resident DU apologists

it is indefensible

[Skittles]

5. they are absolute cowards

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[Skittles]

10. they're cowards, and that is what cowards do

they would be singing a completely different tune if Zimmerman had stalked and killed one of their loved ones - they are DISGUSTING

[Hugabear]

12. I see what you did there

[backwoodsbob]

7. who are the apologists?

[Kali]

8. your self-awareness is showing

[hrmjustin]

11. People who wrote celebartory threads after the verdict.

People who gloated when they knew the rest of us were deeply upset.

[OregonBlue]

2. Agreed. They are the gun nuts. Take a look. The same people who are the big time southern

gun defenders are also the ones defending Zimmerman.

[Skittles]

3. but imagine if it was one of their loved ones GZ had stalked and killed

add HYPOCRITES to their resumes

[bettyellen]

13. now that criminals are using self defense their lives will get a whole lot more interesting...