The story emphasizes the investigators’ questions rather than Z’s answers.
Note the most they considered charging was manslaughter. Also Z’s injuries were evident during questioning.
Why didn’t he just identify himself as a neighborhood watch member? Yeah that always stops a sudden sucker punch and beating. /s
“I feel sorry for the good black folks who get caught up in this.”
I feel as sorry for them as I feel for the white segregationists who automatically got riled up any time there was even a hint of a crime by a black person. That’s what race prejudice does—it turns people into unthinking automatons.
Yesterday we had white racists in the south; today we have black racists.
Different skin colors, but same human nature underneath.