If George Zimmerman was black and Trayvon Martin was white...

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Not guilty

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No one would care because the case would have never garnered enough attention to make it a national story...

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Very true and our hypothetical black Zimmerman would be in jail or death row. Agreed?

Not death row.

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As Dibble said in the other thread: No watchman, regardless of race, would question a white boy walking around a gated community.

And nobody, in southern suburbia, would dream of sparing him the electic chair if he did.

Oh, quit your trolling.  Someone from Southern suburbia has already said they'd find him not guilty, in this very thread...

Not guilty, just like in the Zimmerman case.

And I would have done so reluctantly, against my hunch, because of the lack of proof, just like in the Zimmerman case.

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Three similar cases, with the racial roles reversed: http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/07/15/2297541/self-defense-zimmerman/?mobile=nc

SPOILER ALERT: the black people lose each time.

Uhh.... similar?  I think not.

Firing a warning shot is not the same as defending yourself against an attack (and we're assuming that Martin was the attacker not because I necessarily believe it, but because the prosecution was unable to prove otherwise).  Why was she pointing the gun at her two step-sons?  Were they involved in the altercation?

Regarding John McNeil, why did the court reject his self-defense claim?

Regarding the third case, it seems like he probably shouldn't have been convicted, but I'd have to  see the whole case.