Zimmerman is both white and hispanic. And black.
The evidence is that killers of whites are far more likely to get the death penalty than killers of blacks. It’s less about the race of the murderer, and almost entirely about the race of the victim.
Trayvon was black. Zimmerman’s race is a much, much smaller factor. Would you like me to post a link to the relevant study?
Zimmerman’s race is irrelevant. The research says it’s the victim’s race that controls execution rates.
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Your ignorance is showing. Or you are going to tell me there are no white Hispanics? In fact, depending on how far-reaching the term is, I know of almost no Spaniard who qualifies as anything other than"white" – now, fully agree, they are not a majority in most other Latin American countries such as Argentina, but sure enough a safe bet would place “pure white” Latin Americans at least at a 15/20% rate overall.
That’s a lot of white “brown” people…
Nonsense. Murder is a moral term as well as a legal term; if some dictator goes to the trouble of legalizing his killings before committing them they are still murder. And then there’s concepts like judicial murder, where the murderer is the legal system itself or its representatives.
That’s what Martin did, not Zimmerman.
Right-wingers are uniformly Zimmerman supporters, so yeah, race definitely plays a role. Or maybe it’s just a big coincidence.
Do you have any actual evidence for Zimmerman launching a vicious, unprovoked attack on Martin? Following him and asking him questions rather obviously doesn’t count.
If such evidence does appear, my opinion of Zimmerman will change rather substantially. Until then, I’ll believe that he was attacked and beaten for no good reason.
The police did what they tend to do when confronted with a scene of carnage and a body - arrest all parties so that no-one can do a runner, and then work out what happened. By all account the Wangs were released within hours, and in protective custody soon after. CPS at no time raised charges against the Wangs. Not sure how you can say this is protecting home invaders?
Perhaps there’s a misunderstanding here due to the difference between “arresting” and “detaining”, and how the terms apply in the U.S. and the UK?
Other than a corpse?
So you don’t agree (or don’t necessarily agree) that I am a racist, but you don’t say anything to rebuke the person leveling the accusation, because… I place the law above common sense?
Some of Zimmerman’s people getting all up in arms over accusations of racism in the Zimmerman threads went right on over to the New Deal Democrat thread to openly state that they think white people are genetically smarter than black people. Not sure if they think this undermines their credibility or not.
“Backs that are wet”? Good luck with the alliteration.
Correct.
Yes. Something that actually functions as evidence of a vicious, unprovoked attack would be nice.
Besides someone being dead, with a big ol’ 9mm hole in his chest.
Yes. Something, for the third time, that is evidence of a vicious, unprovoked attack. You have provided evidence that Zimmerman shot Martin. Well done, although I don’t think anyone’s ever disputed that point. Now, perhaps you could provide some evidence that he attacked him, that it was vicious, and/or it was unprovoked.
Evidence that Zimmerman attacked Martin? Huh? Well, let see now. We have reliable testimony that he was alive before. Video tape at the Qwik E Mart, for instance. Reliable testimony from the coroner that he is, in fact, dead. Bullet hole. Gun matching bullet hole in Zimmerman’s immediate possession. More?