re: #172 Killgore Trout

George Zimmerman 911 call: what the fallout is from botched editing

“removing dust under poor lighting”
/Lol

The most important point is buried at the end of that article….

Goedkoop of La Salle University sees parallels with the case of Rodney King, whose beating by Los Angeles police was videotaped.

“The nation felt quite certain it saw the truth of what happened to Rodney King. The public is similarly sure about this case,” he writes. “The [district attorney] in King’s case tried it as if the images spoke for themselves. Yet … the defense won by offering a more convincing explanation of the images, focusing on what is by definition invisible – the officers’ motives, reasoning, judgment, and feelings.”

He continues, “The [acquittal of the police officers resulted in] one of the worst riots in our nation’s history. You have to wonder if we are doomed to repeat a history we refuse to learn from.”

When the press fails to inform the public accurately bad things happen. Zimmerman may walk, maybe from genuine innocence or from a technicality. The press has spread enough misinformation, conjecture and questionable forensic “science” that the public isn’t informed enough to make sense of the case. It’s a potential derpfest with very serious consequences.