Saturday, July 20, 2013

Yes, let's do remember this case

and the way that the media that can't get enough of the Martin/Zimmerman case mostly ignored this one.
It's ugly, there's no question about what happened, but it was committed by five black thugs on a white man and a white woman, so the media that can't get enough of a white Hispanic and a 'black child' didn't want to report it.  Or talk about it.  Or admit it happened.


For those people(effing idiots all) who want to make it easier to convict someone:
A key constituency seeking to roll back stand your ground in the Florida legislature is prosecutors, whose interests just might not be fully congruent with those of the people they prosecute.
Yeah, we REALLY want to give them even more power.
Tell you what, guys: We'll consider that if you give up qualified immunity. How's that for a trade?
Although critics insist that stand your ground leads to racially disparate effects, the Tampa Bay Times, a paper that has been highly critical of the law, concedes its in-depth investigation "found no obvious bias in how black defendants have been treated" under the law. 

It also quoted Alfreda Coward, a black Fort Lauderdale lawyer "whose clients are mostly black men," as saying it had sometimes worked to the advantage of her clients facing charges over altercations. "Let's be clear," Coward told the paper, "this law was not designed for the protection of young black males, but it's benefiting them in certain cases."
It was not 'designed' for young WHITE males, either, Coward; it was designed for THE PEOPLE OF FLORIDA(effing moron lawyers; did he think- ah, never mind).

And, what REALLY needs to be done:
If you're looking for things that really went wrong in the Zimmerman case and are part of wider patterns unfavorable toward minorities, try looking at the prosecution's misdeeds.
Oh HELLS yeah.
Of course, they also need to look at a lot of the media who helped whip this into the frothy mess it became, but they don't mention that.

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