re: #52 Political Atheist

There is a reason DC officialdom & the President has downplayed the civil right violation charge. The more I reads up on that law and some of the case law the more I think the direction to send the effort and energy is not GZ but the larger issues of how law enforcement works, SYG, and a number of things about Florida.

How much evidence that George Zimmerman is a racist did the FBI find in the investigation already conducted? Little to none.

I get it how upset we all are at the acquittal. It just does not alter the law.

Must concur. It might be different if Zimmerman had actually been a security guard or cop. But the standard for conviction of a private citizen on a homicide-related civil rights charge is very high, as Eric Holder himself has said. To convict, the federal government would have to prove Zimmerman intended to kill Martin and that Martin’s race played a major role in the forming of that intent by Zimmerman. There just is not enough evidence to prove such a thing.

What I really think Holder is doing is using the investigation to keep things calm. If he’d gone and announced two days after the acquittal that the federal government would not be filing charges, things might have gotten bad.