it is hard to acknowledge your kid was a little gangsta punk ass loser. the truth can be very hard to admit. he’ll feel better when he does though.
I’m gonna laugh my ass off in 10 years when Trayvon’s absentee father is arrested for drug charges or something of the like. It’ll be like watching OJ’s descent.
No show of emotion can, in the end, deny what is becoming a growing reality.
But given the general failure of critical thinking, and the nature of low-information individuals that find their way onto a jury panel, perhaps a hung jury is the best we may hope for. A guilty verdict would mean a heightened press for the repeal or invalidation of “Stand Your Ground” and the “Castle Doctrine” support for self-defense. An innocent verdict would fuel the racial tensions that already exist, but this is not a black-on-white encounter, it is a black-on-Latino confrontation.
A hung jury potentially leaves either of these issues up in the air.