{"id":9741,"date":"2012-04-30T06:28:21","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T06:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/04\/30\/a-pithy-summary-of-the-trayvon-martin-case\/"},"modified":"2012-04-30T06:28:21","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T06:28:21","slug":"a-pithy-summary-of-the-trayvon-martin-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/04\/30\/a-pithy-summary-of-the-trayvon-martin-case\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pithy Summary of the Trayvon Martin Case"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The liberal narrative about the [Trayvon Martin] case is now destroyed; it had nothing to do with finding out the truth, whether a trigger-happy vigilante murdered Trayvon Martin, or a desperate neighborhood watchman saved his head from being pounded to smithereens by pulling out a gun and shooting his assailant, or something in between. The narrative instead was solely concerned with taking a tragic shooting case and turning it into more fuel for a fossilized civil rights industry (since the case broke, dozens of violent crime cases of blacks against whites and Asians are splashed over the news, enraging readers and escaping liberal commentary). All we know now is that the \u201cnarrative\u201d\u2014a preteen shot \u201clike a dog\u201d while eating candy by a white \u201cassassin\u201d who uttered racial epithets and was never even touched by the victim, only to be let go by a wink-and-nod police force\u2014is false.<\/span><\/p>\n

I think it will be very hard to get a second-degree murder conviction, given the absence of racial malice on the tape (the narrative\u2019s \u201ccoons\u201d and NBC\u2019s version<\/a> of Zimmerman on his own volunteering \u201che\u2019s black\u201d are now inoperative), eyewitness accounts of the fray, and the clear injuries to Zimmerman. Instead, the authorities will hope that by inflating the indictment, by airing the facts, and by making Zimmerman testify, tensions will ease\u2013and so when he is acquitted or a judge throws out the case, or a lesser count is pressed, riots will fizzle.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Perhaps before the second-degree-murder charge is thrown out, the prosecution can so entangle Zimmerman in testimony that they can recharge him with perjury or conspiracy and then plea bargain him down to a year or two. The case is now not concerned with justice, but with politics, defusing threats of violence, and salvaging the careers of so many who so foolishly rushed to judgment.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here: The liberal narrative about the [Trayvon Martin] case is now destroyed; it had nothing to do with finding out the truth, whether a trigger-happy vigilante murdered Trayvon Martin, or a desperate neighborhood watchman saved his head from being pounded to smithereens by pulling out a gun and shooting his assailant, or something in between. … Continue reading “A Pithy Summary of the Trayvon Martin Case”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}