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In reply to the discussion: BREAKING per Huffington......Justice Department To Review Zimmerman Case [View all]John2
(2,730 posts)a petition by the NAACP to sign, demanding the DOJ open an investigation into the violation of Trayvon Martin's Civil Rights. The petition already had hundreds of thousands of signatures on it, so I signed it too.
I think the Trial was a sham from the start right on down to jury selection. It was definately a case of racial profiling a Black teen. The bottomline for me is George Zimmerman murdered a minor who was unarmed. I do not accept the theory a 17 year old minor was beating an armed adult male to death and didn't had the right to defend himself against that same armed male stalking him at night. Zimmerman's criminal past should have been an issue and why he was even allowed to carry a concealed gun in Florida after a background check or even allowed to monitor persons on a police monitored community watch program. You can complain all you want, but a lot of people felt justice wasn't served by that predominately white jury. It was a sham from the beginning and the victim was place on Trial. The prosecution never defended the victim's Constitutional rights and treated him as some animal. People just don't accept the verdict. They feel George Zimmerman got away with murder and that jury failed and the justice system.