Posted on 10/12/2007 11:45:13 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Reacting to the not-guilty verdicts in the Florida boot camp case involving the death of a 14-year old African-American boy, CNN anchor Don Lemon found the result "surprising." And both he and CNN reporter Susan Candiotti made clear that they bought into the prosecution's portrayal of the videotape of the incident.
Just before the verdicts came down, there was this exchange [emphasis added].
DON LEMON: How much of a role did this tape play into [sic] this trial?
SUSAN CANDIOTTI: Oh huge. This is the main evidence, isn't it? And as one of the prosecutors said, "there might not be sound on this tape, but it is screaming at you, 'why didn't someone do something?'"
View video here.
Note that by stating "as one of the prosectors said," Candiotti was adopting the prosecutor's argument as her own. After the verdicts were announced, Lemon made clear that he too bought into the prosecutor's version.
LEMON: All of them acquitted. And all of them found "not guilty." Surprising, Susan . . . If you look at this, I mean it's, ah, the tape is quite disturbing, and as you said, you can't hear, there's no sound on the tape, but it just sort of screams at you.Lemon went on to suggest that the jurors' race might explain the verdict.
LEMON: Earlier, when I asked you about the racial component, I think the only racial component in this was that the jury was all-white, mostly white in this case, and they [who?] were concerned that the jury may not have, you know, I guess, been compliant [sic] or what have you to a black teenager in all this and they would necessarily find these guards not guilty. And there was some controversy about that.Oh, so that's "the only racial component". Just that white jurors wouldn't be "compliant" [sympathetic?] to a black teenager and as a result would "necessarily" acquit the guards. Glad Lemon cleared that up.
CNN ping to Today show list.
:^P
CNN: Infotainment for the clueless!
A variation on my tag line excuse ;-)
Wow, very surprising. I expected someone to do some serious jail time over this incident.
Seen the video?...I have...
They killed the kid.
OJ anyone?
Remember, rules only apply to the little people.
So, the perps got off because they’re white like the jury? Or because the vic was black?
I expected them to do jail time but don’t think they killed him. I’ve heard they beat him but don’t see that in the video. They are standing around him and apparently trying to control him but thats all I see. The nurse even pulled out her stethoscope to check him.
its certainly a tragedy but accidental.
No, havent seen the vid. I’ll admit to a knee jerk dislike for CNN though.
That could be why I didn’t comment about the tape or its material and kept it aimed at the channel I love to loath.
I would suggest, just as a general concept type thing, though...that maybe the folk who actually heard all the evidence, rather than just that tape, developed a different cause-effect relationship.
Or, maybe it was just white people don’t care about black kids because all whitie are devil? That is what the piece of disinformer paid by CNN tried hard to imply.
“Seen the video?...I have...
They killed the kid.”
How exactly did they kill him? What did they wittingly do to him that would cause his death? Are you asserting that they knew of his previously un-diagnosed condition?
With the dumbing down of America, nothing coming out of a Jury would suprise me anymore.
Sounds like dem evil honkie jurors got some payback fo dat O.J. trial.
“How exactly did they kill him? What did they wittingly do to him that would cause his death? Are you asserting that they knew of his previously un-diagnosed condition?”
Its been in the news a lot down here in hanging chad territory. Evidently the ammonia packet was used to excess and he suffocated. I could be wrong but he wasn’t beat to death like they want us to believe.
He was a troubled child sent to boot camp in an attempt to turn him around. I don’t think his race had anything to do with anything except the level of attention this case is getting.
Don’t mean to sound like Sharpton’s bartender, but if the kid had been white someone would have gone to jail. It’s as simple as that. No, I can’t prove it, but I believe it nonetheless.
The defendent (perp to you) was ‘black’ also.
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