George Zimmerman, the 28 year old neighborhood watch guy who shot 17 year old Trayvon Martin, has gone in to hiding having received death threats. Zimmerman is not white, but appears to be the composite 'melting pot man' who speaks Spanish and probably has some white, negro, American Indian and other racially diverse genes. Racial purists-fundamentally African Americans in this instance, mistakenly believed Zimmerman was a white American victimizing an innocent black youth thus affording the opportunity for vast expressions of racial outrage in this Presidential election year. The Rev. Al Sharpton visited Sanford Florida to express solidarity with the Martins and a million people signed a petition at change.org to have Mr. Zimmerman arrested.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/03/21/george-zimmerman-the-man-who-shot-trayvon-martin-profiled-by-family-and-neighbors.html
The trial of Shawn Tyson, a young black males who is alleged to have shot to death two Brits in Sarasota Florida in April of last year at age 16 'since you ain't got no money I got something for your ass' has begun. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/since-you-aint-got-no-money-769178
In the year 2008 then United States experienced about 14,000 murders. More than 6000 blacks were killed with an equal number of whites. Evidently there is some basis for concern about the behavior of some Florida youngsters.There were few others adding to the statistics that year-just 597.
In 2009 there were fewer than 60 killings of suspected felons in the U.S.A. more than 9000 murders were done with weapons.
http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0310.pdf
In 2005 blacks were about 13% of the U.S. population and committed more than 50% of the murders that years. White committed most of the rest, yet they are more numerous in the population.
http://www.hhscenter.org/bonbstat.html black on black crime coalition
The F.B.I. reported that in 2009 murder investigations cost about $263 billion dollars.
There has been a variable range of about 50 police officers killed in the line of duty in the United States each of the past few years.
http://crimeinamerica.net/2009/12/17/police-shootings2009-a-dangerous-year-for-police/
The national statistics for the controversial subject of 'justifiable' killings of black Americans during the 1990s is rather interesting. Blacks comprised 42% of individuals killed, while police officers killed by blacks was 43% total. With a large badly educated, under or non-employed gang influenced young population living in poor areas crimes occur.
http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/ascii/ph98.txt
Whites were the agents of death for 56% of police shootings during the 1990's.
The report cited above reports that each year about 400 people-violent felons, are killed in the U.S.A.
George Zimmerman was no police officer, yet he was acting in a dangerous field. One would prefer that a cool rational law enforcement approach would replace the radical, untruthful and inaccurate lynch mob PR hunts that arise in the U.S.A. too commonly. The media is the 800-pound gorilla that brutalizes the life of anyone they profile in a bad light intentionally or unintentionally.
The shooting of Trayvon Martin has yet to yield the sort of C.S.I. material the public should have become familiar with. The number of bullets, angle of trajectory, entry/exist wounds, posture of the victim, distance and etc alone can be revealing. The Grand Jury and prosecutor given sufficient time ought to shed light on the circumstances of the tragic incident.
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