Well, the media is doing a good job of it.
The amount of lies spread by the media is more than criminal.
Just ask friends who are casual observers and they will tell you:
1)Zimmerman hunted down Martin and shot him for no reason and is a known racist.
2) Zimmerman had Martin pinned down.
3) Martin was heard on the 911 call screaming for help when Zimmerman executed him.
4) Martin never did anything wrong and was a sweet, innocent boy.
The facts from the police report and eyewitnesses are totally ignored.
Yup
That's because this isn't really about Zimmerman. He's just a symbol. This about a problem that has been festering within African American culture for decades, and that problem has now become pathological, and they need someone to blame.
I know. I have some very gullible facebook “friends” who are off the rails on this thing. One even suggests that this was “premeditated murder”. Oh really? Based on WHAT? I have tried to interject some objectivity into the conversation- including that Zimmerman is hispanic, but was told because I am a white Christian, I really have no say in it.
But THEY—also white Christians—can convict this man based on the media’s lies and distortions. I left them to their “I am a better Christian because I support the poor black people and believe white gun-owners are basically racists” tripe. UGH.