The State of Florida vs George Zimmerman: The Trial

A lot of whites have been lynched,
especially in pre-judicial regions of America in the 18OOs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigilante

A lynching carried out by the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1856.
Later in the United States, vigilante groups arose in poorly governed frontier areas where criminals preyed upon the citizenry with impunity.[8]

In 1851 and 1856, San Francisco Vigilance Movement sought to eliminate crime, an element of this movement focused on immigrants like the Sydney Ducks.[9]
Los Angeles and the surrounding counties had outbursts of vigilantism from the early 1850s as many of the criminals driven out of San Francisco and the Gold Country came into the less populated Southern California making the city and surrounding countryside a dangerous place for many years.[10]
In 1858 San Luis Obispo vigilantes ended the murderous reign of the bandit gang of Pío Linares on El Camino Real between San Luis and Santa Barbara.
In October 1862 in northern Texas, several Unionist sympathizers were arrested and taken to Gainesville, Texas for trial on charges of treason and insurrection. Seven were tried and hanged, and 14 were hanged without trial. A few weeks later, Unionist sympathizers were hanged without trial across northern Texas. Known as "The Great Hanging at Gainesville", it may have been the deadliest act of vigilante violence in U.S. history.[11]
From late December 1863 to 1864 the Montana Vigilantes were formed by citizens of Bannack, Virginia City and nearby Nevada City to fight lawlessness in the gold mining region of Montana. Over the next month, 21 men were hanged, including, on January 10, 1864, Henry Plummer the sheriff of Bannack, who was also the leader of a major gang of highwaymen. The last man hanged by the vigilantes may have done nothing more than express an opinion that several of those hanged previously had been innocent.

Which shows nothing. It could be because whites are given the benefit of the doubt and the police don't charge them with crimes requiring them to resort to SYG. Or it could be because blacks are more likely to be attacked by someone committing a felony.

http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/16/glaad-silent-on-trayvon-martin-gay-panic-revelation/

The gay-rights advocacy group GLAAD has yet to respond to new revelations that Trayvon Martin may have been under the impression that George Zimmerman was a “gay rapist” at the time of their tragic fistfight.

“And people need to understand, he didn’t want that creepy ass cracker going to his father or girlfriend’s house to go get — mind you, his little brother was there. You know — now, mind you, I told you — I told Trayvon it might have been a rapist,” Jeantel told CNN host Piers Morgan.

Jeantel made clear that she was not referring to general fears of a neighborhood rapist but specifically to the sexual orientation of men who are “that kind of way.” Morgan, the low-rated British replacement for beloved talker Larry King, declined to draw her out on the point.

“Definitely after I say may be a rapist, for every boy, for every man, every — who’s not that kind of way, seeing a grown man following them, would they be creep out?,” Jeantel said.

Zimmerman, who was acquitted in the shooting death of 17-year old Martin in 2012, claimed that Martin struck him first in their highly publicized altercation.

GLAAD did not return a Daily Caller request for comment.

GLAAD has long spoken out against the “gay panic” defense used by defendants accused of violent acts against people they perceive to be gay.

“Too often…attorneys representing perpetrators of violent acts against LGBT people resort to accusing the victims of ‘bringing it on themselves’ in order to defend their clients in court. The ‘gay panic’ defense says that an LGBT brought violent retribution on themselves, up to and including murder, by sexually propositioning someone who was so enraged by the gesture that they had no choice but to react violently,” according to GLAAD.



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An when it can not get any crazier we have this theory but then it also could be that Trayvon was trying to rape Zimmerman

She suggested that perhaps this man wanted to sexually assault him--which is, very logically, what a female might think if she were followed like that in the dark--she was just imagining what she might fear in a similar situation, and extending that possibility to Martin. There is nothing peculiar about any of this.

I considered googling to any statics of any white males raping any black young males, but its just ridiculous on so many levels I won't even bother.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_statistics#United_States

The U.S. Department of Justice compiles statistics on crime by race, but only between and among people categorized as black or white. The Uniform Crime Reports classifies most Hispanics into the "white" category.[100] There were 194,270 white and 17,920 black victims of rape or sexual assault reported in 2006. However, the report does give a note that for the percentages of white-on-black or black-on-white rape, and the estimate of total number of black victims, the statistic is based on 10 or fewer sample cases.[101] According to Anthony Walsh, "Gary LaFree's rape data for the 45-year period revealed that blacks were arrested for rape an average of 6.52 times more often than whites."[100]

The U.S. Department of Justice compiles statistics on crime by race, but only between and among people categorized as black or white. The statistics for whites include Hispanic and non-Hispanic whites combined. There were 194,270 white and 17,920 black victims of rape or sexual assault reported in 2006.[102]

The FBI does not keep statistics on white on black or black on white sexual assaults gay or straight for some strange reason............

How Laissez-Faire Racism Explains The Trayvon Martin Case
By John Halpin,
July 16, 2013

In the wake of George Zimmerman’s acquittal on murder charges in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin and peaceful protests against the verdict across the nation, Americans are rightly asking: “What kind of justice system allows someone to go completely unpunished after killing an unarmed black teenager taking a walk in his neighborhood?” Pioneering work by Harvard sociologist Lawrence Bobo and his colleagues on “laissez-faire racism” –- a “kindler, gentler anti-black ideology” where negative stereotypes of African Americans shape public policy in pernicious but ostensibly race-neutral ways — can shed depressing light on the question.

The crux of this argument is that American racism has largely moved beyond the overt, biologically-based strain prevalent during the Jim Crow era to a more subtle form of racial exclusion based on the notion that African Americans themselves — and their cultural norms — are to blame for their social and economic position in American life. Bobo’s theory is typically used to explain white indifference to pervasive economic inequality and educational underachievement in black communities, lines like “they don’t work hard enough” or “they don’t have the right values,” and hostility to progressive policies to achieve greater equality and opportunity for African Americans. Bobo argues that these attitudes constitute a clear form of racism, although one that’s in many ways different from the older version:

The basis for retaining the term “racism” is two-fold. First, African Americans remain in a unique and fundamentally disadvantaged structural position in the American economy and polity. This disadvantaged position is partly the legacy of historic racial discrimination during the slavery and Jim Crow eras. Even if all direct racial bias disappeared African Americans would be disadvantaged due to the cumulative and multidimensional nature of historic racial oppression in the U.S. Further, racial discrimination continues to confront African Americans albeit in less systematic and absolute ways in its current form. Rather than relying on state enforced inequality as during the Jim Crow era, however, modern racial inequality relies upon the market and informal racial bias to recreate, and in some instances sharply worsen, structured racial inequality. Hence, the phrase ‘Laissez Faire Racism…’

In the wake of the civil disorders of the 1960s, Schuman (1971) called attention to the pronounced tendency of white Americans to view the “race problem” as flowing from the freely chosen cultural behaviors of blacks themselves. The tendency to deny the modern potency of discrimination and to see a lack of striving and effort on the part of blacks as the key issue in black-white inequality has been confirmed in a number of subsequent investigations based on regional (Apostle et al 1983; Sniderman and Hagen 1985) and national data sources (Kluegel 1990; Kluegel and Bobo 1993).

The laissez-faire racism theory seems to equally apply to a nominally colorblind criminal justice system in a society in which the persistent negative stereotype that young black men are prone to violence, and its corollary that legal authorities and other citizens are justified in their fear and confrontation of black men, are widespread. The legal system may be not outwardly racist or overtly discriminatory against African Americans, but it operates in the context of widespread, dangerous stereotypes that leads to discriminatory effects in practice.

Understanding this framework, the judicial outcome of the Zimmerman case is not surprising. The evidentiary hurdle in this case was always high for the prosecution, as it should be in all murder cases. But beyond the difficulty of parsing all the facts given the lack of witnesses, the legal system itself virtually guaranteed that George Zimmerman was free to carry out his self-appointed role as neighborhood watch leader confronting what he called “******* punks” like Trayvon Martin who “always get away.”

We’ll never know either what happened that night or what Zimmerman’s true motives were for sure. But we do know that given the insane legal structure in Florida, people like Zimmerman are legally allowed to start altercations with those they fear or don’t like and then claim self-defense if the person they confront fights back in some manner. This is laissez-faire racism in action -– laws that, while nominally colorblind, in practice protect the right of white people to act on their prejudices and stereotypes about “violent” African-Americans with force.

So, if laissez-faire racism is real, how do we end it? This is tricky. As Bobo and countless historians have described, Jim Crow racism was eventually upended by an organized civil rights movement that systematically attacked the legal structure upholding discrimination against blacks. African Americans now hold the same rights of citizenship as others in American life but still face discriminatory practices and cultural prejudices that undermine the notion of full equality for all. These less visible biases are much harder to attack since they are outcomes of a seemingly color-blind process. It seems that fighting laissez-faire racism will require, among other things, ongoing exposure and public education, sustained protest against these practices, political organizing to replace lawmakers who embody these attitudes and support discriminatory laws, reshaping our legal understanding of racism to better account for disparate racial impacts in addition to discriminatory racial intent, and renewed efforts to improve the economic and social opportunities of African Americans.

If this new civil rights activism takes hold, maybe we can find some modicum of justice for Trayvon Martin and prevent future tragedies from occurring.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/07/16/2308971/laissez-faire-racism-trayvon-martin-zimmerman/

There is never a mention of the fight now is there.

I think it's a political mistake on the part of Democrats to make such a big deal about this trial and about the verdict. I know the black community feels victimized, and I see where they're coming from. I just think Democrats should wait until the next SYG murder, when the victim is once again black but the killer isn't Hispanic. This case could hurt us politically because it pits a Hispanic against an African-American.

The tendency to deny the modern potency of discrimination and to see a lack of striving and effort on the part of blacks as the key issue in black-white inequality. . . .

There is never a mention of the fight now is there. I love how you guys like to leave this out of the discussion. It demonstrates a complete lack of the facts. Keep playing the facts to fit your idea of what happened.

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There is never a mention of the fight now is there. I love how you guys like to leave this out of the discussion. It demonstrates a complete lack of the facts. Keep playing the facts to fit your idea of what happened.

I've never ignored the fight. But that fight did not occur out of the blue. The fight came about as an outgrowth of circumstances that Zimmerman created. The fight came about because of Zimmerman's provocative behaviors toward Martin--actions that caused Martin to be frightened about why this strange man was following him in the dark for no apparent reason.

It was a fight that would never have occurred had Zimmerman not pursued Martin.

It was a fight that would never have occurred had Zimmerman remained in his vehicle.

It was a fight that might well have never occurred had Zimmerman bothered to identify himself, and his motives, to Martin.

Martin died never knowing why this strange man had been watching and following him in the dark, as he was simply walking around on a trip back from the store.

The altercation itself was a fistfight between an unarmed minor and an adult man who, not only had a loaded gun, he was also a well-trained fighter, and there is no evidence that more than a single punch was thrown by the minor before that adult shot and killed him.

The need to use lethal force in that situation rests only on Zimmerman's claim of his subjective fears, in other words Zimmerman's judgment. However, Zimmerman had profiled an innocent kid, just walking home, as a suspicious criminal, and he then displayed poor judgment, and a disregard of both Neighborhood Watch rules and a police dispatcher's admonition, by both impulsively following this kid, and then by getting out of his vehicle.

So, there is every reason to suspect that Zimmerman, who had already shown poor judgment, and poor impulse control, and who already had the mind-set that this innocent kid was some sort of dangerous character, would not accurately judge whether lethal force was necessary, and that he would greatly exaggerate the threat posed to him, in his own mind, causing him to make no effort at self-defense other than a premature resort to lethal force.

Zimmerman responded to a punch in the nose--a punch not strong enough to even necessitate medical treatment for his injuries--with lethal force.

But, under Florida law, because he contended he felt "threatened" with the possibility of great harm, his subjective fears, no matter how unjustified those might actually be, were enough to allow him to evade legal responsibility--not just responsibility for unjustified use of lethal force, but for recklessly creating the entire circumstances that led to the fatal encounter.