Sherman, you don’t just try — you succeed! You succeed, that is, in using a lot of words to stay smack dab on the fence, the better to pretend “open mindedness.”
Why do you think it’s a pretense? I can’t actually be open-minded? With little actual evidence to date, don’t you think it’s a little early to be shutting minds down?
Does the way the legal system handled this look fishy? Absolutely. Do I know what mistakes or crimes were committed by the cops? No, and neither do you. About all there is now is suspicion.
But numerous people take that suspicion, run with it and decide that they know in detail what happened and why.
Can’t anybody else see this is exactly what happened with Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown? People decided they know what happened, before any real evidence was presented, then when the evidence differed from what they’d decided, it was taken as proof of a coverup.
I was out of the country when the Martin thing broke, and the overseas news presented it as a simple case of a white racist thug hunting down and killing an innocent black child. I believed it, silly me.
I’ll just sit over here and pretend to be open-minded about the Waco case till evidence is presented.