I’m trying not to get too upset, but it’s not working. First, we have what really happened:
It’s been more than a few hours since your teenage son went out to buy some snacks during a break in a televised NBA All-Star game that you, he and his little brother were watching. But it’s no real big deal because you know he’s a good kid. No arrests. No gang stuff. No delinquency. No drugs. In fact, he’s an A/B, 11th-grade student athlete with aspirations of becoming an aviation mechanic. So you know you really don’t need to worry. Maybe he ran into a cute girl. Maybe one of his buddies called him on the cell phone he was carrying and told him about an NBA party being held by some cool neighborhood youngsters. Although you tell yourself you don’t really need to worry, you begin to worry anyway. A few hours turn into several hours, and the night turns into day. So you call the local police department’s Missing Persons Unit, but they don’t have any info. So then you call 911, and the cops ask you for a description. Shortly after, they show up with a photo of a bloody-mouth kid lying dead on a morgue stretcher. Toe-tagged as John Doe.
He had his cell phone with him, and the police had found it on him. The names and numbers of his family are on that cell phone. But the cops never called you or anyone else in it to ask anything. However, they did ask you if the battered corpse in that photo is your son. All you can do is slump to the floor, devastated by all-consuming shock and despair, and then drag yourself to your phone, call his mother, and, unable to say anything more, simply tell her “(our child) is gone.” Your innocent, unarmed boy. Murdered. With a gaping gunshot blast to the chest. Gone. That can’t be. He just went to 7-Eleven. He just went to buy some Skittles and an iced tea. But it can be, and it is. He was murdered. He is gone. Forever. This is what happened to Trayvon Martin’s family. Imagine instead that it was your son, your grandson, your nephew or your little brother. Now what?
Then we have the comments section at Fox News reacting to the news that the Department of Justice and the FBI are going to look into the case:
The little thug ghetto monkey should have been home doing his homework, not out gang bangin.
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maybe his gang brothers incited violence too?
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How’d the kid get into the “gated” community in the first place?
I’m just glad Zimmerman didnt miss and hit an innocent bystander.[…]
What a shame—a tragedy, really— because the dead lil’ gangsta could’ve used “‘A-FIRM-TIV AK-SHUN” to go to kollige an play footballz and make lotsa cash munny!”
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THIS IS PURE RACIST!! When do you ever see the DOJ investigate the death of a white child??
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This is pure B.S I want to see the kids police record even if something is expounged also why was he removed from facebook it says account terminated.Why because his parents are trying to cover his tracks just like if you hit a bus they see Dollar signs.People have dragged data about Zimmerman out where is the kids past.Don’t say he was a good boy prove it.Ask yourself what is more likely to happen any 17 year old kid when you ask a question.A smartass reply I have never and I mean never seen a teenager run unless he did something wrong.I guess no crinimal has ever cased a place when they went to a store.It takes me aback the way all these facts are quoted by people who read one story on a issue.
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Who says his gang wasn’t hiding near by?
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he could be a good kid, but being in a gang doesn’t help his case
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An unfortunate death, but when will DOJ investigate the death of a Caucsasian?
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Here we go again— a LOCAL law enforcement matter (no federal issues) is being hijacked by the FEDS because the alleged “victim” is bl a c k! We all KNOW this kid was up to no good and now he’s feedin’ worms. Too bad-ha ha ha!
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Last night on CNN Anderson Cooper kept referring to zimmerman as white when he knew he was Hispanic I wonder why
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maybe then the kid was not bIack maybe Hawaiian like tiger woods then we can say s p i c s h o o t s Hawaiian
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This has Bl ack racist Holder and his all bl ack racist “DOJ Civil Rights Div” written all over it.
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In any event, it appears to be a case of one sc u m bag Cuban-type (Zimmerman) offing some scummy b l a ck kid (Trayyy-Vonnnn)…in some trash neighborhood….
but now, because the dead kid’s a kneegrow, we have:
the BIG BAD FBI on this “important” case…and
the usual BLACK-RADICAL-PROTESTERS who can’t mind their own business!
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Crack Skittles the new disguise
I suppose these people are trying to make my blood boil and I wish that I could just shrug this stuff off. I hope Fox News is proud of their business model. It’s a real winner.