You are correct that we cannot have a trial until someone is arrested and charged with a crime. I agree that point. Why do you say the whole thing was dropped after a few hours? If it was dropped why are the police still investigating? As for the federal government being involved… I’m pretty sure that they are only able to get involved if it is determined to be a hate crime which falls into their jurisdiction. The hate crime would be defined if it is proven that he said F****n’ C***e like they keep trying to determine. They cannot simply step in and prosecute this guy if it is only determined that he is an idiot that shot a kid for no reason.

Obviously you have a deeper insight into this whole incident since you are positive that there will not be a trial. I’m pretty sure that there will be a trial trying to get something on him… even if it is only discharging a firearm within a certain distance from a school. Personally I believe his attorney is taking a huge risk because they have already said that the Stand Your Ground Law does not apply to this case. They are simply going for self-defense from everything I have read.

After the Casey Anthony fiasco I would hope that prosecutors would take their time and choose the correct crime that they can charge a person with that they can be convicted of. In her trial it seemed that the prosecutor tried to convict her of a crime, though deserving, was a reach based on the evidence. The jury members even said in post-trial interviews that if it would have been a lesser charge they would have convicted but there was too much reasonable doubt to convict on the greater charge. They need to make sure this one is done right.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&am; p;q=49%...

I searched but couldn't find where you were as much outraged about 49 murdered in Chicago in one weekend, including a 6 year old little girl caught in a crossfire between two rival gangs. Where was the national media outrage?
Last year there were 240 children murdered in Texas by child abuse. That's almost 5 a week. Where's the national media outrage?
If there is an arrest and trial, and Zimmerman is found innocent, we'll still be back at square one and you and many others still won't be satisfied.

Oliver North produced crack cocaine? I was not aware.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&am; p;q=49%...

I searched but couldn't find where you were as much outraged about 49 murdered in Chicago in one weekend, including a 6 year old little girl caught in a crossfire between two rival gangs. Where was the national media outrage?
Last year there were 240 children murdered in Texas by child abuse. That's almost 5 a week. Where's the national media outrage?
If there is an arrest and trial, and Zimmerman is found innocent, we'll still be back at square one and you and many others still won't be satisfied.

• mgrayar Said:

Oliver North and the CIA used the proceeds from the sale of crack cocaine within the inner cities of the US to fund the purchase of weapons for a war the public was not supposed to know about. That all became public long ago.

We could look at Ollie North and the CIA who purposefully produced and distributed crack cocaine within the inner cities on a population we didn't seem to care about even as late as the 70's and 80's.

Cary, a trial has not been ruled out. You seem to completely ignore that this is a process. You ignore that there is evidence and reports coming from police and eye witnesses that dispute the medias representation of the events. You also ignore that the media is now coming forward and admitting their reports were wrong or purposely deceitful in some circumstances. All this information must be verified and investigated.

Let the process play out. I truly feel you will see a trial.

As others have previously noted, you are extremely assumptive and over reacctive. You never give anyone fair consideration or any benefit of the doubt that what they write is anything but a bold faced racial implied lie and they're stupid for posting it. How can there be any discussion with that attitude. I'm staying away from you. No wonder there are those who have left.

Bryant said he worries that “people like Sharpton and those on the left” will make Martin’s death a campaign issue in the presidential race.

He speculated that they will “turn this evolving tragedy of this young man into fodder to say… if you don’t re-elect Obama then you will have unbridled events or circumstances like this happening in the streets to young men wearing hoodies.”

So... since the white state attorney and the white local police chief were replaced with a black state attorney and a black interim police chief... will justice be better served? Will the black community accept the findings of them? If they decide the evidence justifies charging him with a crime and taking it to trial, I know I will support that since they are professionals. Likewise, if they decide that there is not enough evidence to charge him with a crime then I will also support that. We just need to wait and see how this plays out. There will be a resolution that is a guarantee. Whether people view it as justice or not, that is up to them.

A person is entitled to their point of view on this board. I don't think anyone is posting anything hateful intentionally but you can never be sure how a message will be received. However, calling someone a racist because their view is not the same as yours or you don't like their message... can only be taken one way.

• mgrayar Said:

And you and others seem to ignore, or you somehow just don't realize, this issue was dead until it became news.

Zimmerman was set free, it was over. It took media attention to get an investigation.

• carygold Said:

Do we actually know that, or is that an assumption. I have not seen anything that tells me the investigation was closed and reopened due to pressure. If that's the case, good job media.