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Fox News contributor Rod Wheeler a former D.C. homicide detective summed the situation up nicely in this quote:
"The police department in [Sanford, Florida] oppose that law," Wheeler told Fox News host Brian Kilmeade. "What that law is saying in the state of Florida -- and look at the case law -- you can actually shoot a dog. It happens all the time. You can shoot a kill a dog and get arrested and put in jail, but if you kill a kid -- and especially a black kid in Florida -- you can walk away. That's what that law means."
I Bet if Trayvon Martin (the victim) had been white and Zimmerman (the shooter) had been black, Zimmerman would have been shackled in the basement of the police station, in a matter of minutes after the shooting, waiting for the lynch mob to arrive.
I suspect the Feds will go after a civil rights violation. You can't violate an innocent young man's rights of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" much more than by murdering him in cold blood.
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