There was a lot of upset over the Treyvon Martin killing. A few days after that my guy was walking down an urban sidewalk at night and two black men driving by yelled “Kill Whitey.” A day or two later I was walking down the sidewalk, 6 black men walked past me and one said something extremely ugly about his mouth and my ass. The anger in black areas was very strong. However, it turned out that the shooter was just a police wannabe and social misfit.
I think that far left activists used this anger to prepare for a better case to come along. That happened when the Ferguson case occurred. It did not matter that he was a 300 lb thug who had just robbed a convenience store and bullied a much smaller man. There was apparently quite a lot of racist stuff happening in Ferguson, and almost no black people on the police force for a large black population. It fit the police brutality meme, and the far left organizers ware off and running. Money was available for printing and travel and they made the most of it in a number of cities. The Police kept obliging with other much more questionable shootings of much more innocent victims.
When I see the far left rally around such incidents, it leads me to believe that the black underclass will never assimilate and they just need to find better accommodations for them. When race becomes the primary determination in hiring cops (so black cops police black areas), nothing ever gets better. Here in the northeast we’ve had plenty of minority cops for decades; nothing improved.
“However, it turned out that the shooter was just a police wannabe and social misfit.”
I think you bought into the smear on Zimmerman. He was very well thought of in his community, hardly a social misfit, before the storm of accusations and smears aimed at him by the entire elite establishment.
As for being a “police wannabe” there is no indication that he did anything inappropriate, such as imitating a police officer or even showing adulation for the police. He stood firmly *against* the police when he thought they were in the wrong; and was apparently respected by the police.
I am not clear how you mean the term “police wannabe” as derogatory, except perhaps as someone who wants something but is not willing to do the work to get it. It did not seem to fit George Zimmerman. From all reports, he had higher aspirations. He wanted to be a Judge, like his father, so perhaps he was a “Judge wannabe”.
If you are willing to look at a very well done analysis of the case by an expert witness who was privy to much of the “insider” events, read Massad Ayoob.
Here is the introduction of his analysis:
The media told us a self-appointed neighborhood watch captain and wannabe cop with gun-derived courage was on patrol when he profiled a young child because he was black and wearing a hoodie, and that he stalked and gunned down the helpless youth out of sheer malicious bloodlust. The media trumpeted that theme so loudly that most of America believed it. When the killer was acquitted, there was national and even international outrage. It was a bandwagon made for anti-gunners to leap on, from the Brady Organization to the White House, and they jumped on it with more feet than a nest of spiders.
The trouble was, it wasn’t like that at all. George Zimmerman had been named head of the watch group by his own neighbors. While he had considered a career in criminal justice and taken some classwork in that area, he had also been offered a quasi-police patrol car and uniform by the police department that coordinated with the Neighborhood Watch, and had turned it down. Zimmerman wasn’t “on patrol” in his private vehicle on that proverbial dark and rainy night; the evidence showed he was simply driving to a Target store to buy some lunch makings for work that week.
http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/ayoob143.html