What sickens me the most about this verdict was having now seen the same crime scene photo which the jury also saw. I won't post it directly, but for anyone who has not already seen it and wishes to feed their outrage, here is the link:
http://gawker.com/this-courtesy-of-msnbc-is-trayvon-martins-dead-body-753370712
WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGE! 
This is the "menacing thug" whom George Zimmerman had no recourse but to defend his life from. This is the "punk" (or whatever more likely epithet he really used) who invoked such fear and threat that a John Wayne-abee self-appointed "neighborhood watch captain" was impelled to react with deadly force. This skinny, preppy-dressed kid was the face of terror in George's precious gated community.
Seriously, no offense to Murphy and Grayson supporters, but Florida needs to break off and sink into the Caribbean already. There's no good reason why it's the only state that warrants it's own category on Fark. Aside from that, among the many unfortunate lessons we should take away from this case, it's that the money which corrupts our political system will never go away so long as the same moneyed forces also rig our legal system.
Personally, I have to wonder what kind of outcome we would have seen had Mark O'Mara been walking through a neighborhood he "didn't belong in" and was gunned down by someone who felt threatened by his ethnicity.
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