I thought I heard one was being prepped for this case, but yes, it was pushed passed that procedure by the state for political purposes...Sorry for the ambiguity...That’s on me...
And for what its worth, I believe someone else here said that there needs to be some real political blowback from this for those responsible for pushing it to this extreme...
There certainly does.
At the state level, that would include Angela Corey and whoever assigned her as "special prosecutor". Is Corey elected or appointed? And who assigned her to the job? Would that be the State AG, Pam Bondi?
Does the governor, Scott, bear any blame for this travesty?
At the federal level, we've got a whole 'nother kettle of fish...
For one, I'd like to know just who it was that called the media's attention to the case -- a full three weeks after the fact!
Did you know that the first national story didn't appear until three weeks to the day after the story was first reported locally. For three weeks, the Sanford community -- black and white -- knew of the case and was generally satisfied that it was self-defense. The original news stories were quite complete and the John Good eyewitness report was usually cited early in the story. Along with the development's recent history of break-ins.
Then, in a broad, coordinated cascade, the national stories hit. And they left out many of the things that had been reported locally -- like Good's eyewitness account, the recent break-ins, etc. And, as the story was developed, much selective editing was employed to slant the narrative.
Ryan Julison, Crump's sleazeball PR guy, may have been responsible for this. But I'm thinking it's more likely that somebody in the White House was handling the affair with the press.
I want to know who instructed the press. And I want to know why they agreed to foster the journalistic fraud.