He was arrested.
Poll shows big racial divide in opinion on Trayvon Martin case
Americans are sharply divided by race in their opinion of the shooting of an unarmed black teenager in Florida by a Hispanic neighborhood watchman.
A Gallup/USA Today poll finds that most black Americans (73 percent) think Trayvon Martin's shooter, George Zimmerman, would have been arrested if Martin had been white. Only 33 percent of non-Hispanic white people said the same thing.
The racial divide on Zimmerman's guilt was also big: 51 percent of black people said Zimmerman is "definitely guilty" based on the information available, compared to only 10 percent of whites. About 20 percent of both whites and blacks said Zimmerman was "probably guilty."
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/...144923024.html
He was arrested.
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Another "race-baiting" thread.
I think a big part of why the divide follows racial lines is the slowness with which the legal wheels seem to be grinding on this one.
A 17 year old was killed and the man who pulled the trigger was walking around free.
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