re: #234 Charles Johnson

If the press and the public had not gotten involved, George Zimmerman would have walked away totally scot free. It was OVER as far as the Sanford PD was concerned. There was no investigation. It was just a dead black 17-year old kid, and nobody in a position to do anything about his killing gave a shit. Life had moved on for them.

I’m as cynical as anyone about the media, but in this case they’re a very positive force for justice.

“RING RING RING”

“Hello?”

“Hello, this is officer ….. with the police. We found this cell phone on a dead black youth with no other identification. Your name was the last one dialed, he’s Jon Doe right now, can you fill us in on who exactly he was to help us notify his next of kin?”

The above does not take THREE DAYS to do.