Monday, April 23, 2012

Article on Zimmerman bail


With all the talk and the public outcry over the February 26th shooting death of seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin, I was interested in following how the public and authorities handled the case with George Zimmerman, who was the shooter in the incident.  I recently came across an article that talked about the fact that Zimmerman was released from jail on $150,000 bail.  This has many people upset, because a majority of the public viewed the shooting as racially motivated, and therefore an even worse crime than other shootings.  The defense wanted Zimmerman’s bail to be denied or to be posted at one million dollars.  Although I am definitely not comfortable commenting on the incident too much, from what I know I think that Zimmerman should have been allowed the bail at the $150,000 it was set at.  Our country prides itself on our ideals, and one of those is the fact that every man is innocent until proven guilty, and at this point he is still an innocent man who is being accused of an incident with the concept of “race” behind it.

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