re: #163 palomino

No, not at all, but a cursory look around the internet shows that much of the right is glorifying him, and for all the wrong reasons. They see him as a courageous guy protecting good hard working white people from a nonexistent epidemic of black on white crime. That reaction, not yours, is paranoid, misinformed and morally repugnant.

And it’s one I don’t agree with in the least, I feel your analysis spot on. But I can’t, by contrast, assume the worst of the man or his actions that evening because the wingnuts want to beautify him. He’s a dumbass, a wannabe cop, what have you. But I also have to take into consideration what Martin was, unflattering it may be. And what he is, based upon the evidence so far, was not the angelic child that the media led me to believe he was in the beginning.