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In reply to the discussion: Names of six jurors who acquitted George Zimmerman made public [View all]Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)When they were the ones celebrating the verdict the loudest? If anything, the gunners would want to look them up to give them a parade...
I'm just calling it as I see it; with posters talking about getting gun permits, being afraid of retaliation, and all that bullshit...If the jurors were in imminent danger, something would have happened to them long ago since it wouldn't have taken that much work to dig up the names... Did it ever occur to anyone that the judge released the names for the exact reason that she assessed any potential threat to their well-being as minimal to non-existent??
And I want you to think really hard here -- Try to recall all the notoriously divisive, controversial or high-profile court cases in the past, say, hundred years and see how many of them had some kind of mythical "violent juror retaliation" in the months afterward...
NOW ask yourself WHY it's assumed to be a near certainty in this thread that black folks (Yes, you can admit it -- *IF* there was going to be an attack; chances are it would come from one of us since we continue to be the perpetually aggrieved party in the legal system) would immediately seek out some kind of revenge...
Like I said; it's the same level of insult as the pre-emptive riot warnings...