Yours truly decided early on that I wasn't going to jump into this until we knew some facts. At the beginning all we knew was that a young black man had been shot by a Peruvian-American, self appointed neighborhood watch captain. Of course the media headlines read, 'innocent black child on his way home from candy store shot to death by white man'.
Typical 21st Century unbiased reporting -- NOT!
Too much news, too few facts. I note this morning that the police had an eye-witness statement from day one, that this witness seems to reflect self-defense. But unlike the charlatans, the police are not waving this fact on the front page. One TV station now reports;
"A witness we haven't heard from before paints a much different picture than we've seen so far of what happened the night 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot and killed.
The night of that shooting, police say there was a witness who saw it all."
Hopefully, the cooler heads will prevail, the slow wheels of justice will grind and guilt or innocence will be determined by a Grand Jury and/or a jury of his peers. Not by a screaming headline selling media, nor by a screaming headline seeking bunch of race baiters.....
Now, if we only had a mature, responsible occupant in the Oval Office whose resume` as a community organizer knee jerks his responses into these local matters... instead of allowing him to act in a presidential, thinking manner.
Whee Doggies.....
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have a look at the original photo of hooded mr. martin in the miami herald and compare it to the lightened and softened makeover version shown above. http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/03/22/2708960/trayvon-martin-a-typical-teen.html also note the lineup-like pic of zimmerman. someone is doing some serious, sneaky optical editorializing.
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