re: #139 Justanotherhuman

Both were teens and killed for walking while Black.

No, not so. Emmett Till was killed for allegedly whistling at a white woman, he was indeed killed for being black. And his attackers planned to kill him in advance.

Trayvon Martin was killed because he knocked George Zimmerman down and then pinned him to the ground. If he had not used force, he would not have been shot. Moreover, while Zimmerman was overzealous to be sure, he did not set out to kill Martin.

What George Zimmerman did was to shoot someone who had him in a seriously bad position whom he thought was a criminal (though that last was not actually true). This is not the same thing as more than one man stalking, torturing, and killing a boy much smaller than they were simply for offending their belief in white supremacy.

Note: The preceding should not be taken to mean George Zimmerman handled the situation correctly, because if he had stayed in his SUV then no one would have gotten hurt or killed. But that still does not make him anything like the monsters who murdered Emmett Till.