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What If Zimmerman Walks Free?

Jim3912 Wrote: May 22, 2012 12:06 PM
The "black community" needs a wake-up call--BIG TIME! It needs to distance itself from those who twist facts to manipulate others for serve their own agenda. I believe, or would like to believe, that MLK would have provided a much more sober tone to this sad situation.
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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