That black kid who was shot in Florida by some guy who was afraid of the kid who I'm pretty sure never even got any real punishment besides black people hating him for it.
It is still ongoing. To forgo the usual assumptions, I'm an Acadian (Cajun)/Cherokee/English/German/Haitian (yes, African Haitian)/Sioux mix, so racially I'm not on either "side" here.
George Zimmerman stalked him through the neighborhood and should not have confronted him. He was in the wrong for sure. If he hadn't done what he did, Trayvon would still be alive and he wouldn't be on trial.
But Zimmerman was also a victim himself of edited media and the prosecutor withholding evidence that supported his side of the story.
NBC edited and aired its version of the 911 call to make it sound like racial profiling, when if you listen to the unedited version it is not like that.
The prosecutors withheld a photo showing a bloody Zimmerman with a clearly broken nose for almost 9 months while the media frenzy was stirred and public opinion was highly biased against Zimmerman. Prior to that (for 9 months), you only saw photos of an un-injured Zimmerman.
He may still have been "hated", but it was the media and prosecutors "story" that stirred up a vast amount of that hatred through a manipulation of the facts to create a bias against Zimmerman.
Just sayin.