{"id":38257,"date":"2013-07-15T10:28:59","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T16:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/15\/this-is-the-way-the-justice-system-works.html"},"modified":"2013-07-16T09:26:02","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T15:26:02","slug":"this-is-the-way-the-justice-system-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/15\/this-is-the-way-the-justice-system-works.html","title":{"rendered":"This is the way the justice system works"},"content":{"rendered":"
Ta-Nehisi Coates on the George Zimmerman verdict.<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Jay Gischer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah. What he said.<\/p>\n

It is painful to say this: Trayvon Martin is not a miscarriage of American justice, but American justice itself. This is not our system malfunctioning. It is our system working as intended. To expect our juries, our schools, our police to single-handedly correct for this, is to look at the final play in the final minute of the final quarter and wonder why we couldn't come back from twenty-four down.<\/i><\/p>\n

The way that the law in Florida works is that if you kill someone somewhere where there are no witnesses, it is up to the State to prove that you weren't in fear of great bodily harm. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

If you work this it, it amounts to "might makes right". \u00a0 I don't want to have to kill people to be able to prevail in court. \u00a0 So that makes me lesser.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Trayvon Martin And The Irony Of American Justice<\/a>
\n In trying to assess the the killing of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman, two seemingly conflicted\u2026\n <\/p>\n

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Ta-Nehisi Coates on the George Zimmerman verdict. Reshared post from +Jay Gischer Yeah. What he said. It is painful to say this: Trayvon Martin is not a miscarriage of American justice, but American justice itself. This is not our system malfunctioning. It is our system working as intended. 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