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Is it just me or has anyone else noticed that the people against a thorough investigation that might lead to the truth and a possible arrest, are consistent with Obama bashers?..maybe it's just me...
Nope. Obama being President has much to do with it.
What are the various news outlets you're talking about?
This is a single broadcast by a single network.
It's hard to see how this can be justified by any legitimate journalistic judgment, and I am sure that when NBC completes its internal investigation someone is likely to be reprimanded or even fired, but you're going way overboard here.
That single broadcast by a major news network was picked up by hundreds of smaller news stations and news papers all over the country and repeated numerous times. It inflamed public opinion at the outset of this story which contributed to all of the outrage and demonstrations.
How can he sue for defermation? They didn't accuse him of being racists. If that was the case, all of the news organizations including Fox should have been sued time and time again.
The guy has a potential defamation claim. NBC published information about him that may have shown him in a "false light" by indicating that he is a racist.
Of course, at this point we don't know if his portrayal as a racist is false. There seems to be some indication from his history of calling the police and complaining about things that black people are doing that he may have racist tendencies. If he sues NBC he can make the best argument he can make and they can present the best defense they can.
Meanwhile, though, they will do their internal investigation, they will most likely discipline somebody, and they will publish a retraction as quickly as possible, so that at a minimum they will limit their exposure.
If Zimmerman is in fact innocent then yes he should sue for defamation.
I think people often confuse "not guilty" with innocent. Everyone on the Casey Anthony jury thought she was guilty, but they didn't feel the prosecution proved its case.
Under the law, maybe Zimmerman will be found not guilty (if he is ever arrested and charged with a crime) but it still does not mean he didn't follow an unarmed teenager and kill him.
I've noticed a lot of people posting on this board who think abortion, even in cases of rape, is murder, but they believe taking away a mother's child at 17 is justifiable homicide.
Many young black men on their way to becoming career criminals usually already have criminal records before their seventeenth birthday. They usually don't wait until they're one year from graduating high school.
In my opinion, it's unlikely that a young man with two, presumably honest and law-abiding parents, an older, articulate brother enrolled in college, and several other adults who vouch for him, would be on an irreversible path to the thug life.
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