mercurial_g

old news, November, but:

http://ontd-political.livejournal.com/9503518.html

It is always worrying when real life starts imitating satire:

Dave Chappelle: Killin' Them Softly (2000) (TV)

David Chappelle: Somebody broke into my house once, this is a good time to call the police, but mm mm, nope. The house was too nice. It was a real nice house, but they'd never believe i lived in it. They'd be like 'He's still here!
[whacks the microphone on the stand]

David Chappelle: Oh my god. Open and shut case, Johnson. I saw this once when I was a rookie. Apparently this n*gger broke in and put up pictures of his family everywhere.'


...I just, this is just horrifying. I've always found zombies scarier than vampires because both look like people, but zombies just don't give a damn about your humanity at all. Sure, the vampires might eat you, but they will remember who you are? Zombies don't give a damn about who you are, your thoughts, your feelings, it just doesn't register. Being at the mercy of something you don't have a hope of convincing at all is horrifying.

police officers mocked his father’s past as a marine. "For them to look at my father that way, (with) no regard for his life, every morning I think about it," he says.

8:29 AM on 03/28/2012

Now, it has emerged that at least one Sanford police officer may not have believed Zimmerman's story: the lead homicide investigator Chris Serino, who was reportedly overruled on making an arrest by the state attorney, Norman Wolfinger, or his office.
Indeed, there are several potential problems with Zimmerman's account.
1. Nowhere to hide
The path from 1111 Retreat View Circle, the clubhouse inside the gated Retreat at Twin Lakes townhome complex, where Zimmerman told police he first spotted a suspicious person, to the backyard walkway where Trayvon died, has no hiding places.

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Read the article at thegrio.com

( What was more ridiculous than the presence of C.N.I. (Cable News Investigations), was the absence of proper police work )

( The police treatment of Trayvon Martin, just taking George Zimmerman's word, reminds me of the tragic fate of another young victim, 14-yr-old Konerak Sinthasomphone. (Trigger Warning) )