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Georgia Boy 61 Wrote: May 22, 2012 2:11 AM

Re: "What If Zimmerman Walks Free?" Martin should go free, if he is tried and found not guilty by a jury of his peers in a fair and unbiased trial. If certain folks take offense and riot - as happened with Rodney King - then so be it. Call out the National Guard if that proves to be the case. The rule of law is what matters. Every citizen has the right to be tried in an actual court, and not in the "court of public opinion."

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THE_ANSWER Wrote: May 22, 2012 2:15 AM

Yoir meant... Zimmerman "should go free".

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Georgia Boy 61 Wrote: May 23, 2012 3:50 PM

Yes, pardon the error...

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What If Zimmerman Walks Free?

Three months ago, George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer in Sanford, Fla., shot and killed Trayvon Martin.

Handcuffed, taken in and interrogated, Zimmerman told police Trayvon had been acting suspiciously that dark and rainy night, that he had followed Trayvon, been knocked down and battered on the ground, and, fearing for his life, pulled a concealed handgun and shot him.

Sanford police and prosecutors concluded that Zimmerman acted in self-defense and had not committed a provable felony. They let him go.

A racial firestorm followed. "Blacks are under attack," railed Jesse Jackson. "Killing us is big business." Arriving in Sanford, the...

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