GOP rep on Zimmerman verdict: 'Get over it'
Source: USA Today
A Republican congressman from Maryland has this message for people fixating over the verdict in George Zimmerman's trial: "Get over it."
Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, was acquitted Saturday in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, a Florida teenager. Trayvon's death and Zimmerman's trial have been at the center of a national debate over racial profiling.
"We're hung up on this one case, where this one fellow was, in fact, found not guilty by a jury. That's the way the American law system works. Get over it, " Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., said Tuesday on WMAL radio.
Harris, a conservative who was first elected in 2010, also suggested there has been too much news media coverage -- especially on TV -- about the trial and its aftermath. "We missed the forest through the trees to a large extent with all the huge issues going on in the world," Harris said.
Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/07/16/zimmerman-trial-trayvon-martin-andy-harris/2521823/
Audio from the July 16 Mornings on the Mall show is at 6:20
Transcript, courtesy BaltimoreSun.com:
WMAL: Have you been watching -- I know its way off topic -- but have you been watching, as everyone has, the Zimmerman case?
HARRIS: You know, I haven't been watching day by day but it honestly you can't turn on any news program now without 90% of it taken up by the Zimmerman case. Again, you know we missed the forest for the trees to a large extent with all the huge issues going on in the world with unrest in the Middle East, we're hung up on this one case where this one fellow was in fact found not guilty by a jury. That's the way the American law system works. Get over it.
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If it was HIS SON who was shot instead of Trayvon, I wonder if he would say the SAME THING! 
he would, these fuckers are heartless.
YOU get over it, asshole!
Next time you and yours start whining about how you want "your" America "back," because you don't like how gays can marry whom they love,
you don't like how women supposedly still have the final jurisdiction over their own bodies (granted you and yours are working mighty hard to change that one!),
you don't like it that some people don't agree that you're entitled to have as many fucking guns as you feel like,
you don't like it that voting rights are still in many places as broad as they are,
you don't like people whose skin-color isn't like yours and you've already decided they're probably nogoodniks (just like your little pal "Georgie" did),
you don't like it that there's a black guy in the Oval Office and he isn't the janitor.
YOU get over it.
You can stop putting up with it as soon as WE, the aggrieved, decide it's over.
Fuck you. Fuck you sideways.
too tight?
I was referring to Andy Harris. You know, the republican congressman mentioned in the OP? The one who says everyone should just "get over" the Zimmerman verdict. I didn't say anything to you.
Oh, and, uh, welcome to DU.
