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Why are some people really mad at the Zimmerman verdict?

the outcome didn't seem outrageous, that he'd be found innocent. It wasn't really a race thing, is that why a lot are mad? Because it was a young african-american boy who was killed?

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago
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    They are upset that a african-american boy was killed by someone of a different race. Yet these same people cheered when O.J. was acquitted for brutally slaying two white people. Talk about hypocrisy.

    #Justice4Zimmerman

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    It wasn't race thing many people were mad no matter what their race is. He wasn't found innocene he was found not gulity. People are mad because that a young man who was unarmed was killed. That could have been anyones son or cousin or nephew. People are still gonna cry when some who was so young and hasnt lived a life yet,dies. Your mother would have cried if it was you who was shoot by Zimmerman.

  • 8 years ago

    I would have been mad if it were a white boy, Chinese boy, or Australian boy. I'm mad because all of this would have been avoided if the dummy would have stayed in his car like he was told to do, not play rent a cop. He wouldn't have "feared" for his life. All he was supposed to do was observe and report but instead he decided to be "superman" now an innocent boy is dead. It's not about race as someone else stated. Heck I even thought OJ did it, just like I think Casey Anthony did it. Wrong is wrong.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    A number of factors make people angry. Martin was still a minor. Zimmerman is an adult. Martin was unarmed. Zimmerman carried a loaded weapon. Martin was minding his own business. Zimmerman insisted on being part of Martin's business. Martin was black. Zimmerman is Hispanic. A lot of people feel Zimmerman got away with murder.

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  • 8 years ago

    It seems that people that feel the world owes them a favor because of the color of their skin always throw down the race card when things don't go their way.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Because this verdict is as good as a open-season declaration on black boys in America

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Race. just race

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    the only people's who are upset are the people that have no idea what happened. the people who are informed on what happened that night aren't upset.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    8 years ago

    Because they are shallow.

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