“At first glance, the death of Trayvon Martin seemed to be a straightforward example of ugly, racial conflict resulting in the killing....”
Is this Bill Bennet? In any event, in what way did it look like a racial killing at first glance?
You have a hispanic neighborhood watch guy who said he was jumped, certainly confirmed by witnesses that he was losing the fight, who shot the guy he had called police about.
There were exactly two (insufficient) facts to support a racial theory 1. That the shot guy was black, and 2. That it doesn’t appear the shot guy was in fact doing anything that merited shooting PRIOR to the fight.
Pretty weak basis to have jumped to any conclusion of a racial killing.
Neighborhood watch people call the police all the time to report “suspicious” persons. Most such calls don’t pan out but it’s better safe than sorry.
MAJOR POINT: If Zimmerman wanted to “just shoot” Trayvon, he wouldn’t have been on the phone to police getting them there so they could check it out.
” MAJOR POINT: If Zimmerman wanted to “just shoot” Trayvon, he wouldn’t have been on the phone to police getting them there so they could check it out.”
Kinda shoots the “gotta shoot the black guy” all to hell.
Initial reports said nothing about Zimmerman’s broken nose or bashed in head. It was just a white man followed and killed an angelic looking Black kid.
It would not surprise me if CNN pressured BB into adding that disclaimer. Sort of like the “this was a tragedy” meme that even Fox News is using.