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Blood money: $10,000 bounty on George Zimmerman
Quote from the washingtonpost:
George Zimmerman should be in jail. That he remains free after killing an unarmed Trayvon Martin one month ago today is galling. His liberty makes a mockery of justice when others have gone to prison for less. But the $10,000 bounty being offered by the New Black Panther Party should be an affront to anyone who wants Zimmerman held accountable for using a 9-millimeter handgun to kill a 17-year-old armed with only an iced tea and a bag of Skittles.
“An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth,” Mikhail Muhammad said at a Saturday press conference in Sanford, Fla., in which he also called on 10,000 black men to “capture” Zimmerman. “He should be fearful for his life,” Muhammad said, living up to his group’s air of menace as the hate-filled self-appointed protectors of the race. A surefire way to snuff out the genuine soul-searching underway is to have Zimmerman succumb to someone else’s definition of justice.
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Is a perceived, preferential so-called justice system encouraging and in many cases forcing vigilanteism?
And if someone killed\murdered Zimmerman, as a result of this bounty, does the end justify the means?
This act {bounty} seems to be opening pandora's box very wide, where every questionable crime of murder, whether justified or not, will encourage some form of vigilanteism to claim the justice being denied.
It would seem that we are witnessing a precedent setting incident, where justice is sought and served outside of the judicial system, because there is a dominant sense of "no confidence in the system" by those victimized.
Quote from the washingtonpost:
George Zimmerman should be in jail. That he remains free after killing an unarmed Trayvon Martin one month ago today is galling. His liberty makes a mockery of justice when others have gone to prison for less. But the $10,000 bounty being offered by the New Black Panther Party should be an affront to anyone who wants Zimmerman held accountable for using a 9-millimeter handgun to kill a 17-year-old armed with only an iced tea and a bag of Skittles.
“An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth,” Mikhail Muhammad said at a Saturday press conference in Sanford, Fla., in which he also called on 10,000 black men to “capture” Zimmerman. “He should be fearful for his life,” Muhammad said, living up to his group’s air of menace as the hate-filled self-appointed protectors of the race. A surefire way to snuff out the genuine soul-searching underway is to have Zimmerman succumb to someone else’s definition of justice.
*******
Is a perceived, preferential so-called justice system encouraging and in many cases forcing vigilanteism?
And if someone killed\murdered Zimmerman, as a result of this bounty, does the end justify the means?
This act {bounty} seems to be opening pandora's box very wide, where every questionable crime of murder, whether justified or not, will encourage some form of vigilanteism to claim the justice being denied.
It would seem that we are witnessing a precedent setting incident, where justice is sought and served outside of the judicial system, because there is a dominant sense of "no confidence in the system" by those victimized.
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