re: #10 Daniel Ballard

More and more it looks like racism is the big issue. SYG? Becoming more tangential the more we learn.

re: #11 mattand

Not really. That piece of shit law enables this kind of tragedy. Zimmerman felt “threatened” and shot a young man dead.

Pretty much. It reads as racism on the surface, but under the surface, it reads like frustration with the law. Considering how many other cases we’ve heard about in just the last week alone that involved similar circumstances, of a person with a gun provoking a confrontation and then claiming “self-defense” afters shooting, my guess is that the police departments have adopted an unwritten policy that such cases are to be treated as such unless prosecutors think there’s enough to at least try before a grand jury.