It's Watch!... Neighborhood Watch. Not shoot.

Best outcome for the cables would be acquittal. Give them a longer news cycle than a guilty.

Possible that it was addressed in court but I still do not understand how Martin's father did not
know that his son was dead until the next morning. How did the police not track him down
and why was he not frantically looking for him that evening.

 

No. Just not following this stupid case, since the victim isn't a pretty young white blonde girl.

5,346 people were killed in the USA by firearms so far in 2013, 13 yesterday.
99 people under the age of 18 were killed by firearms in the last 30 days.
Who are Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman and why do they matter more than any other?

 

probably because a large segment of the population feels like they missed out on the show trials of the 50s and 60s when white people were "tried" for the killing of blacks.

 

It matters to a large segment of our society for a number of reasons. Race and its perception has a lot to do with it. A black kid wearing a hoodie coming from a store late at night in a white neighborhood is approached by a white guy who thinks he's a cop with a gun.
Black kid is shot and dies. White guy claims he was standing his ground.
Meanwhile no one is thinking about the black kid who stood his ground but was unarmed and defended himself the only way he could, with his fists.
And because the kid made a few mistakes like smoking marijuana - and there aren't many who haven't tried it - he's branded as a thug. Meanwhile the white guy, whose background is also shaky, gains 40 pounds to look like a harmless dough boy.
If Zimmerman had been black and Martin white, there would be a huge outcry for "justice." Well, Zimmerman isn't black and Martin isn't white.
That's why many are crying for "justice."

 

Alfred Dreyfus heard the mob call for "justice", too.
Zimmerman isn't white, shouldn't the story reflect the change. The cry isn't "Whitey is out to get us" the cry should be "Everyone who's not black is out to get us". Thats the difference between justice and paranoia.

WHy have due process? Why not just have some televised inquest and have the mobs vote with their rocks and torches?

 

The problem is that the cases publicized are selective and typically agenda based.

When Al Sharpton shows up it turns a lot of people off.

 

If you're going to play that game of perceptions, then make sure you complain about the networks and major newspapers continuing to use the picture of Trayvon as a smiling 13-year-old rather than his most recent -- shall we say "less innocent"? -- pictures.

And if it's proved that Zimmerman just followed Trayvon but Trayvon then attacked Zimmerman, how would an acquittal not be "justice?"

 

Bottom line, Zimmerman had no reason to approach this unarmed kid. IMO.

 

And if Zimmerman was simply following Trayvon -- as is not unusual for a neighborhood watch leader -- Trayvon had no reason to attack Zimmerman. IMO.

 

And that means George Zimmerman should automatically be found guilty because there were horrible examples of miscarriage of justice way back when?

 

Who owns the copyright to those photos and have they given permission for news outlets to use them?