” and the Feds can’t get him with a civil rights charge “
That comes later - it’s the GHWB Docrine: after a local jury acquits, trump up Federal Charges to placate the mob...
That’s exactly why this prosecutor chose to charge Zim - to placate the mob, to avoid the “pandemonium” promised by Martin’s lawyer.
The prosecutor just kicked the can down the road,
because if justice is served, Zim is acquitted,
and 0bama’s private army riots anyway.