Let's talk about Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman, and how unbelievably fucked up this all is

http://media.nola.com/crime_impact/photo/jason-giriorjpg-9a3ba54c5898648d.jpg

Have hair like a douchenozzle, act like one.

OK, come, only one racist shooting controversy at a time, please.

ugh yes, there is this awful blog run by a Chicago cop that has a comments section rife with racist cops and they are up in arms over that NOLA case, defending the douche

sorry, should have made clear: made some ill-advised and super racist online comments about trayvon martin.

If you can't be racist against a pot-smoking, hoodie-wearing, allegedly window-jimmying, up to no good goon who beats up innocent neighborhood watch folks who are just trying to keep their children safe, who can you be racist against?

Next thing you know you'll be telling me it's OK to stare longingly at white women. Which Trayvon might have been doing! At least, no one has suggested otherwise, and if you give me enough time I'm sure I can find a witness to back me up.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/26/craig-sonner-interview-lawrence-odonnell_n_1381578.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmaing5%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D146809

bottom line is racism will keep continuing because daddies tell their kids that racism was something that happened in 1950s-60s but magically ended after Martin Luther King died so they grow up and they still see people decrying racism and they ask their parents why, if racism ended, and the dad says something ironic like "it's cos black ppl like to complain and want us to nanny them" and dude grows up and then subsequently has a kid (unplanned at age 22) and then 7-8 years later teaches his kid the same thing.

^^ a scene that is played out exactly like this in hundreds of households every year, no doubt

well for one it's the main reason I was critical of Affirmative Action when I was in high school. and I only had passively-prejudiced parents.

ohhhh, so that's the bottom line. got it.

excuse dumb question but am I right that Zimmerman still hasn't been arrested?

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kinder - yes not arrested and no indication that it will happen either

it isn't going to happen

unless the feds can build a hate crime case

If all that comes of this is "Stand Your Ground" getting repealed and Zimmerman being hounded absolutely everywhere he goes for the rest of his life, I guess I can accept that. I'll probably have to.

Thanks, got a bit confused with all the shitstorm when I encountered someone on facebook bringing in all that school suspension stuff into it and "it's become a highly one-sided story". smh.

Zimmerman not even arrested is going to embolden a hella large number of haters with guns in states with this stupid Stand Your Ground law. BWH (black with hoodie) is now a capital crime.

I keep thinking about this (amazing) novel: http://www.upne.com/1555533965.html

If all that comes of this is "Stand Your Ground" getting repealed and Zimmerman being hounded absolutely everywhere he goes for the rest of his life, I guess I can accept that. I'll probably have to.

I do not see a Republican Florida legislature repealing "Stand Your Ground" or any of the other largely conservative states doing so either. Some conservatives have said that Zimmerman's behavior as first described was not a proper use of "Stand Your Ground," but that does not mean they oppose the use of "Stand Your Ground" as they interpret it.

Is it bad to hope that this dude's life gets ruined so bad that he just eats his gun?

(I know, I know, it is bad, but god damnit.)

yeah, "refinement" more likely than appeal, if that

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appeal repeal

also, action against police & prosecutors seems more likely than murder or even manslaughter charges against zimmerman at this point, but i'm not holding my breath for either

I'd be vaguely surprised if there's any real repercussions for Zimmerman or anyone in law enforcement at this point.

It's splitting hairs, but while Zimmerman has not been arrested, he is most certainly not a free man, and I suspect is in fact is probably in police custody one way or the other.

Which is to say, there will be no real repercussions for the police, but there will be for Zimmerman, legal, extra-legal or otherwise.

Basically, if I were him, I'd start packing heat, just in case, you know, someone tried to punch him for being an asshole.

He'll have to start wearing a hoodie to avoid being recognized in public.

he should also dye his skin a mach darker hue to prevent being recognized.

mach=much

guys, this thread is enraging enough without us generating our own dubious content

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dubious content

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The lead homicide investigator in the shooting of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin recommended that neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman be charged with manslaughter the night of the shooting, multiple sources told ABC News.

But Sanford, Fla., Investigator Chris Serino was instructed to not press charges against Zimmerman because the state attorney's office headed by Norman Wolfinger determined there wasn't enough evidence to lead to a conviction, the sources told ABC News.

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Serino filed an affidavit on Feb. 26, the night that Martin was shot and killed by Zimmerman, that stated he was unconvinced Zimmerman's version of events.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/trayvon-martin-detective-wanted-charge-george-zimmerman-manslaughter/story?id=16011674

the same state attourney, wolfinger, was also tasked with leading the investigation into the shooting but has since stepped down citing "conflict of interest."

http://m.jacksonville.com/news/crime/2012-03-22/story/angela-corey-take-over-investigation-sanford-shooting-death-trayvon

so can we start hounding this states attorney guy yet? or are we going stay fixated on the single paranoid shooter and ignore the gross institutional dysfunction demonstrated by how this case was handled

i think there is room for rage against both elmo, tbh

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University of Texas Student Paper Wins 'Most Racist Trayvon Martin Cartoon' Contest

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if you look at the rest of her cartoons she just seems like a very confused, not very bright person.

at least she isn't just drawing five panels that feature the same stick figures in the same poses every week like every other college newspaper cartoonist. ;-)

i wish someone could just draw arrows towards the key words, maybe underline them?

maybe mispell a name? you know, drive the point home

I guess 1997's nutty, the kitten with testicles for legs was a cartooning high water mark for the daily texan.

I really look forward to having yet another thing to be ashamed of when I tell people I'm from Florida. even worse that I live like a half hour from where this happened. I mean shit would someone please submerge us?

i got the offer to relocate a year ago. said I'd think about it but probably in 2-3 years. thinking it might be a good time to bump that up a year or two.

fucking daily texan