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

There will be arguments made that they don't need to be admitted since the witnesses can just testify so tapes are unnecessary. However, doubt they would be excluded. Now the call to the girlfriend will be challenged because those were Martin's last words but he cannot be cross-examined and its coming through the girlfriend.

 

For fuck's sake.

 

C'mon. Besides being uneducated, I'm not very good at typing.

I know the difference, but sometimes my fingers get ahead of myself.

 

You honestly don't understand why black Americans might believe the apparatus of justice in this country to be something other than 100% fair, impartial and colorblind?

 

Think of your time in parochial school. I'm going to yell at you until you get it right.

 

I'm trying to figure out why African-Americans appear to make decisions based on race at a higher rate than whites.

I don't know the answer, but I think we're going to have a hard time "fixing our problems" while it remains the case.

The fix is for people to be judged fairly by our criminal justice system -- regardless of race. We should all hold our criminal justice system to that standard. And, I applaud those who worked to ensure just that in this case.

But, I detest those who think they have all the answers in a case like this. How could they possibly know all the answers?

It seems like some people are looking at the criminal justice system like some sort of balance sheet. That's not a fix.

 

I have no problem understanding that. I do not understand why it leads to something other than a demand for fair, impartial, color blind, justice for all.

 

The only reason any of this reached the courts is that the black community demanded it. The police and prosecutors were on their way to burying it but good.

That's the kind of thing that raises some fears about the good old days.

 

Bad move letting this thread title stay. Inappropriate.

 

Jonathan Capehart:

 

Not only would it not shock me if there was an acquittal, but it also wouldn't shock me if a judge threw this out based on Florida's shoot-first-ask-questions law. And any and all reactions that follow this would not shock me.

What would shock me is the prosecutor and defense agreeing on a jury that would then come back with a conviction.