[Winstons Julia]

On the social site Reddit, which is extremely liberal, there were comments when the submissions about the verdict hit the front page. The highest voted were those that said, "Based on the evidence, there was no other possible verdict."

I was kind of shocked.

There was even a poster who said something akin to..."in the past couple of days, I have read more information about the case and I think the verdict was right and I'd like to apologize to anyone that I offended with any earlier comments."

[expat1000]

And yet there was that AP reporter, which kind of by definition isn’t a low information person - that tweeted “I guess it’s okay to kill black kids now” or words to that effect.

[jimjohn]

I’ve been suspecting many of these protests are what they call ‘astro-turf’. Can’t count LA and Oakland. They riot about everything. But the key that’s making me scratch my head: Too many white folks showing up to protest, or should I say the media FOCUSING on the white folks protesting.

I’m here near Boston (read: Blue State America) and I haven’t ran into a black person yet that disagrees with the verdict (and I are one). My money says this is all been gen’d up by someone or something.

Frankly, I think we should be wonder why Big Sis quit all of a sudden.

[Pan_Yan]

On the social site Reddit, which is extremely liberal, there were comments when the submissions about the verdict hit the front page. The highest voted were those that said, "Based on the evidence, there was no other possible verdict."

If you filter through the cloud of ether that the media live in you I think you will find that the every day Birkenstock wearing, tofu eating liberal is only offering the most tepid of support to his downtrodden black brother in this case. Sure their politicians are making the comments they have to but I think the average pony-tailed 1988 Volvo station wagon driver has seen the photos and is terrified of running into people like Trayvon.

[iowamark]

Most of the Martin clan are too stoned to riot.

[0.E.O]

I guess all those people who expected half the cities in the country to be burning by now are disappointed.

[ctdonath2]

Yup. Watching the riots, they look scary & big up close, but a few yards away the rest of the world is just going about its business.

[Bon mots]

The media tried its very best to fan the flames...
You can't say they didn't at least try.

[cripplecreek]

Debate on Detroit local TV yesterday between President of the Detroit chapter of the National Action Network, the Reverend Charles Williams II and Rick Ector, president of Rick’s Firearms Academy in Detroit.

Personally I don't know how Ector does it. I'm all about reaching out to blacks but Williams is clearly too far gone and simply needs his ass kicked.

Let It Rip Weekend: The George Zimmerman verdict

From the same interview.

Others believe that the Zimmerman case should end with the verdict. That’s the opinion of the president of Rick’s Firearms Academy in Detroit, Rick Ector.

Ector says the prosecution had the burden of proof and the jury followed the instructions not bowing to outside pressure in the Zimmerman case.

“Want to admonish people that when we had the O.J. Simpson case everyone respected the verdict of that case, many people felt Simpson was guilty but he was exonerated by that jury – America accepted it – America moved on – and I think that we should have the same sentiment today.

[IrishPennant]

Riot baiting!

[TomGuy]

I had to chuckle the night of the verdict. I channel surfed to HNL. About an hour after the verdict, the studio newsreader went to a female reporter in the field to find out how the ‘protesters’ outside the court house were reacting.

She responded that most of the ‘verdict watchers’ had left and most who remained were -— [drum roll] == REPORTERS from various media.

[TomGuy]

Someone posted in one of the overnight live threads about the protests in California that the signs were professionally printed, not hand drawn.

Implication: the protest(s) were planned and protestors may have been ‘paid’ protesters.