When you read the WAPOST piece, it doesn’t say he is definitely going to be charged, it says that a decision has been made WHETHER to CHARGE, and that decision (whatever it may be) will be announced this evening. Am I reading this wrong? Is this a huge overreaction?
Maybe the article has been changed since you read it? It now reads:
"Florida special prosecutor Angela Corey plans to announce as early as Wednesday afternoon that she is charging neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in the shooting of Trayvon Martin, according to a law enforcement official close to the investigation."
I guess we could doubt the WaPo's claimed source, "a law enforcement official close to the investigation."
The MSM's anonymous "officials close to the investigation" have been wrong before. I still remember a breathless "breaking news" report about Monica's "blue dress." I think this was from ABC News - they reported they had an "official close to the investigation" who leaked that the DNA stains on the blue dress had been found NOT to come from BJ Clinton. Of course, that report was wrong. I never heard an apology or a retraction.
But I'm afraid the WaPo's source is probably right. It would take great courage for a prosecutor to do the right thing in this case -- i.e., not prosecute an innocent man, just because a lynch mob demands it. Where do we ever see great political courage anymore?