Suppose you're a competent, experienced prosecutor who is faced with this situation. If you refuse to charge Zimmerman, you are hounded by the media for the rest of your days for failure to secure "justice" for poor Trayvon. However, if you arrest Zimmerman with what you know is a weak case that any semi-competent attorney can knock out of the park, you have at least got Zimmerman his day in court with a chance to clear his name. If he isn't charged and acquitted, he will likewise have to live in hiding for the rest of his life. However clumsily she did it, I think the prosecutor probably took the only course of action that will lead to a resolution of this case.
However clumsily she did it, I think the prosecutor probably took the only course of action that will lead to a resolution of this case.”
You think the people who would riot and/or hunt down and lynch Zimmerman in the event of him not being arrested will relax and move onto the next thing in the event that his case is dismissed? Also, that they’d hound her out of office for not charging him yet shrug off her incompetence with an “Atta boy, girl; we’ll get them next time”? What kind of raging mobs have you followed in the past.
Arresting him is something, I’ll admit. But, again, trading inaction for incompetence is a lateral move at best. At best. Throwing chum to the masses may prevent a tar and feathering, but it won’t stop them from chucking you out of office for fumbling a slam dunk prosecution of an obviously guilty white (/hispanic) child killer.