On Facebook this morning, one of my “friends” said the jury verdict in the trial of George Zimmerman “should be a lesson to all those thugs out there.”
Stupid reactions like that are not uncommon, of course, among the right-wingers who are figuratively dancing on Trayvon Martin’s grave in the wake of the acquittal of the man who shot and killed him.
Martin was not a thug. But neither, in a strict legal sense, is Zimmerman a murderer — or even a manslaughterer.
When the jury in the Zimmerman case began its deliberations the other day, I said HERE that ...
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On Facebook this morning, one of my “friends” said the jury verdict in the trial of George Zimmerman “should be a lesson to all those thugs out there.”
Stupid reactions like that are not uncommon, of course, among the right-wingers who are figuratively dancing on Trayvon Martin’s grave in the wake of the acquittal of the man who shot and killed him.
Martin was not a thug. But neither, in a strict legal sense, is Zimmerman a murderer — or even a manslaughterer.
When the jury in the Zimmerman case began its deliberations the other day, I said HERE that ...
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