Warbler said:
btw, I failed to see any photo of the police chief on that page.
You'd have to watch the video.
Warbler said:
btw, when I on that page looking at the story of the cop, I saw this:
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/07/27/juror-b29-was-framed-sort-of/
I then watched the ABC interview. She does seem to believe that morally George Zimmerman got away with murder, but that the law would not allow her to convict him.
"Murder" can't be an abstraction. As she said, she didn't believe the intention was there. The only reason the law got in the way was the fact that it rightly provides for self defense and that the burden of proof is on the prosecutor. Even Trayvon's friend has said in an interview she thinks Trayvon threw the first punch (not that that makes it truth obviously). The juror believes Zimmerman is morally culpable for Trayvon's death (and even Zimmerman should recognize that to some extent).
One thing she said really bothered me, she is is hurting as much as Trayvon's mother.
That stuck out for me too. I think overall, she is being too media hungry, saying things that can bring more pain than solace. It's too much about how she is sympathetic, pained, and needing to be understood. I respect that as a juror she followed the law despite what her heart may have told her about Zimmerman's moral culpability.
Here is case with certain similarities to the Zimmerman case that didn't grab the media's attention. As for Obama saying he could have been Trayvon, I am reminded of so many people Obama actually was whom his Justice Department aggressively prosecutes. But that's political, so any response might have to migrate to that thread.