I was viciously criticized when, at indictment, I said the prosecution had overcharged in Trayvon Martin case which would likely result in acquittal. The elements of manslaughter were there, not murder. Now that is widely accepted as the reason Zimmerman got off. Now Fox et al...
...endlessly point to the Zimmerman case as "proof" that these cases often involve whatever name they are calling the black victims that week. That overcharging *set back* the cause of ending this type of racist violence. Trayvon Martin's family never saw justice because of...2
...that overcharging. If the circumstances are ignored, if the rage rightly felt for the unjustified shootings and abuse and false arrests that black people suffer every day is used to say that a case of a justified shooting is one of those, we end up exactly where we did with...
...Martin, with people cheering at overcharges without realizing acquittal becomes a hammer used against racial justice. We have to be intellectually honest. That way, the cases held up as horrific are never undermined by those that are terrible, but justified.

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