The only danger I see in this strategery is that the pot is going to continue to boil, probably for a year now.
As my screen name indicates, I grew up in Los Angeles, and not in a nice neighborhood...in a little town named Carson, nestled between Compton and Long Beach. The way this is going down is eerily similar to the Rodney King case in that you have a situation where people have their minds made up going into the trial. I dont see any way Zimmerman gets convicted, and that “energy” will likely translate to rioting again. The difference is that this is the South...so unlike Southern California, many residents here are well armed, and while the LA riots were messy and expensive, these could be far worse in a human sense.
It’s a choice of riots now or riots later. This is a kick-the-can-down-the-road and hope solution. My thought is that the post-election rioting will have burned itself out, and everything worth looting will have been carted away, before the trial. (Or more optimistically, that the hidden hand driving this situation — the Obama campaign — will be gone and no longer need it).