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brush

(53,782 posts) Sun Feb 25, 2018, 04:15 PM Feb 2018

zimmerman 2.0 gets life.

https://www.theroot.com/white-homeowner-nicknamed-george-zimmerman-2-0-gets-lif-1823294025

MSM doesn't bother to report—maybe because it's such an outlier or a story.

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zimmerman 2.0 gets life. (Original Post) brush Feb 2018 OP

Neighborhood watch has got to go ProudLib72 Feb 2018 #1

What do you call the MSM? Is the Washington Post MSM enough for you?... DonViejo Feb 2018 #2

Good on WAPO. Haven't heard the story reported on cable or locally. brush Feb 2018 #3

here you go... DonViejo Feb 2018 #4

You made your point already. Links to web sites are one thing, on local and national TV another. brush Feb 2018 #5

This was on the TV news here in New Mexico left-of-center2012 Feb 2018 #6

It got nowhere near the attention the Zimmerman case did. Flaleftist Feb 2018 #7

kick Blue_Tires Feb 2018 #8

... said he heard Thomas and his friends yelling outside his home and revving their engines struggle4progress Feb 2018 #9

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)

1. Neighborhood watch has got to go

Reply to brush (Original post)

Sun Feb 25, 2018, 04:18 PM

Feb 2018

JFC, these people view it as an excuse to kill anyone they think looks a little off.

DonViejo

(60,536 posts)

2. What do you call the MSM? Is the Washington Post MSM enough for you?...

Reply to brush (Original post)

Sun Feb 25, 2018, 04:25 PM

Feb 2018

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210278307

brush

(53,782 posts)

3. Good on WAPO. Haven't heard the story reported on cable or locally.

Reply to DonViejo (Reply #2)

Sun Feb 25, 2018, 04:31 PM

Feb 2018

DonViejo

(60,536 posts)

4. here you go...

Reply to brush (Reply #3)

Sun Feb 25, 2018, 04:43 PM

Feb 2018

About 6,160,000 results

https://www.google.com/search?safe=off&source=hp&ei=dx-TWp2BPefUjwTQhp7ICw&q=a+white+North+Carolina+man+was+found+guilty+of+murder&oq=a+white+North+Carolina+man+was+found+guilty+of+murder&gs_l=psy-ab.12...2662.2662.0.4209.3.2.0.0.0.0.241.241.2-1.2.0....0...1c.2.64.psy-ab..1.1.259.6..35i39k1.260.GXOBNDdYeeY

brush

(53,782 posts)

5. You made your point already. Links to web sites are one thing, on local and national TV another.

Reply to DonViejo (Reply #4)

Sun Feb 25, 2018, 05:38 PM

Feb 2018

left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)

6. This was on the TV news here in New Mexico

Reply to brush (Reply #5)

Sun Feb 25, 2018, 05:51 PM

Feb 2018

Flaleftist

(3,473 posts)

7. It got nowhere near the attention the Zimmerman case did.

Reply to brush (Original post)

Sun Feb 25, 2018, 06:42 PM

Feb 2018

Maybe if the victim had been a few years younger?

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)

8. kick

Reply to brush (Original post)

Sun Feb 25, 2018, 07:41 PM

Feb 2018

struggle4progress

(118,290 posts)

9. ... said he heard Thomas and his friends yelling outside his home and revving their engines

Reply to brush (Original post)

Sun Feb 25, 2018, 07:49 PM

Feb 2018

Copley said he yelled back at the men from his window, but they pulled out guns from their waistbands. Copley informed the dispatcher: "I’m on neighborhood watch. I am going to have the neighborhood meet these hoodlums out here racing up and down the street" ... on cross-examination, after he was confronted with the forensic and physical evidence, <Copley> admitted that there was no gun and that he hadn't even .. anyone revving their engines. Copley .. admitted that his community didn’t .. have a neighborhood watch ...

https://www.theroot.com/white-homeowner-nicknamed-george-zimmerman-2-0-gets-lif-1823294025

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