Malkin Award Nominee - The Dish: “I see those six ladies in the jury putting themselves on that rainy night, in that housing complex that has just been burglarized by three or four different groups of black youngsters from the adjacent community. So it’s a dark night, a 6-foot-2-inch hoodie-wearing stranger is in the immediate housing complex. How would the ladies of that jury have reacted? I submit that if they were armed, they would have shot and killed Trayvon Martin a lot sooner than George Zimmerman did. This is self-defense,” – Geraldo Rivera, Fox News.What makes the Zimmerman acquittal "bad justice" for many is in the quote above - that we should feel empowered to confront someone on the street with lethal force, because of "fear."
That’s a staggering statement, effectively giving white people the right to kill anyone above 6′ 2″ in a hoodie. I haven’t been able to watch the cable coverage of this, but readers tell me that Fox is race-baiting in hysterical, reckless fashion. If Rivera’s understanding of “self-defense” is correct, then it’s open, hunting season on African-American men.
Drones hit Iraqi military sites, hours after Iran attacked a U.S. base in
Qatar.
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The Iraqi authorities said that two facilities had been damaged and that
four other sites had been targeted. There was no immediate claim of
responsibility.
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