All true; I don’t know why people have such a hard time understanding.
When you present a case that 3 guys jumped a jogger for no reason, you naturally get a guilty verdict. Georgia desperately wanted a guilty verdict and IMHO they stacked the deck to get it.
Defense was like, ‘They guy acted crazy....so can we use the fact that he was a schizophrenic?’ Noooooo...
Defense was like, ‘He acted like he was drugged, can we use the tox report?’ Nooooo....
Defense was like, ‘He was such a notorious thief, stores had a name for him, can we use that?’ Nooooo....
Defense was like, ‘The father had first hand knowledge of him being arrested for carrying a gun, can we use that?’ No.....
They have been stampeded by the media liars, by fear of riots, by fear of being seen as insufficiently denouncing the racist history of Georgia's past, and many just believe the authorities are right whatever they do.
There are many reasons why people believe crap and then communicate that crap to others. I'm sure there are more reasons I haven't listed.
One guy pointed out that he thinks they deserve to go to jail because they should have known better than to try to interfere with a protected minority.
I can see his point though I think the nation shouldn't operate that way. Everyone should be held to the same standard.