"Justice for Trayvon" ... I think not

I don’t know exactly what happened that evening when George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin had their chance encounter in Florida.   Nor do you, nor does Jesse Jackson, nor does Al Sharpton.   Only two people do.   One is the suspect, the other is dead. 

But day after day, I see on the evening news or read online about uninformed people who are not asking for justice.  But rather, they are asking for the outright execution of Zimmerman.   If you haven’t seen it, check out this website which has captured the tweets from Twitter pages of “outraged” Americans.  It is mob mentality in America at its worse, enabled by media frenzy. 

 http://twitchy.com/2012/04/23/twitter-lynch-mob-now-that-george-zimmerman-is-out-on-bail-lets-kill-him/

Well, since these dangerous (and I will goes so far as to say racist) punks can’t get to George Zimmerman who has wisely decided to go into hiding, they have decided to target others who “represent” George Zimmerman.  Over the weekend, these random attacks increased.  The most egregious attack took place in Mobile, Alabama.  After a resident, a white male, asked some kids playing in the street at night to quiet down, the kids left, but a gang of adults, reportedly all black, returned.  As they savagely beat the resident, who is now in critical condition, one of the attackers reportedly said, “Now that’s justice for Trayvon.”

http://www.examiner.com/article/justice-for-trayvon-man-beaten-by-mob-critical-condition

It is easy to say, where is the outrage over this story?  Why isn’t NBC News leading their newscast with this supposed racially motivated attack?  Why hasn’t Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton come forward and called for a halt to this type of hatred that is pitting black against white.   

While on the surface, it appears this is an open and shut case, the reality is we don’t know.  We weren’t there.  Investigators are assigned to digging out the facts, the lawyers will present the facts to a jury, and 12 men and women will decide.   That’s the way it is suppose to work in America.  And that is not what is happening now.

Some may argue that had there not been the public outcry, George Zimmerman may have never been arrested.  Perhaps true, but if that’s the case, the outcry should have been against the police department and investigators, not against Zimmerman.   Zimmerman has now been arrested, it is time for the legal system to take over, not street mobs.

Online comments following the Mobile, Alabama beating run the gamut from blaming Obama for causing a racial divide to blaming the KKK for establishing the “rules” for dealing with these types of incidents.  But perhaps the following online post put it best:   We need to get united and this time to do our very best to get justice for Trayvon and now also for this poor young man that was beaten just because he was white.