Suspicion Nation: The Inside Story of the Trayvon Martin Injustice and Why We Continue to Repeat It Author: Lisa Bloom | Language: English | ISBN:
B00H6UOENG | Format: EPUB
Suspicion Nation: The Inside Story of the Trayvon Martin Injustice and Why We Continue to Repeat It Description
Many thought the election of our first African American president put an end to the conversation about race in this country, and that America had moved into a post-racial era of equality and opportunity. Then, on the night of February 26, 2012, a black seventeen-year-old boy walking to a friend’s home carrying only his cell phone, candy, and a fruit drink, was shot and killed by a neighborhood watch coordinator.
And in July 2013, the trial of Zimmerman for murder captivated the public, as did his eventual acquittal.
In her provocative and landmark book, Suspicion Nation, Lisa Bloom, who covered the trial from gavel to gavel, posits that none of this was a surprise: Our laws, culture, and blind spots created the conditions that led to Trayvon Martin’s death, and made George Zimmerman’s acquittal by far the most likely outcome.
America today holds an unhealthy preoccupation with firearms that has led to the expansion of gun rights to surreal extremes. America now has not only the highest per capita gun ownership rate in the world (almost one gun per American), but the highest rate of gun deaths. Despite the strides America has made, fighting a bloody Civil War to end slavery, eradicating Jim Crow laws, teaching tolerance, and electing an African American president, racial inequality persists throughout our country, in employment, housing, education, the media, and most institutions. And perhaps most destructively of all, racial biases run deep in every level of our criminal justice system. Suspicion Nation captures a court system and a country conflicted and divided over issues of race, violence, and gun legislation.
- File Size: 657 KB
- Print Length: 338 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 161902327X
- Publisher: Counterpoint (February 25, 2014)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00H6UOENG
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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Lisa Bloom wrote an amazing book about the State V. Zimmerman Trial. She showed in a powerful narrative how George Zimmerman racially profiled Trayvan Martin, pursued the innocent young man, and used the Florida Stand Your Ground Law to get away murder. Zimmerman later said on Sean Hannity that it was the "Will of God"
It can be argued from the facts shown in this book that George Zimmerman created the Neighborhood Watch at the Retreat At Twin Lakes to find those punks that were robbing the houses. All of his 911 calls were made to police with reference to black suspects that he imagined were criminals. His anger got worse over time to the point when he encountered 'Trayvan Martin, a youngster who was walking home to see the All Star Game armed with an Arizona Iced Tea and a bag of Skittles.
The nightmare that Trayvan Martin must have experienced surely could give him the right to use the Stand Your Ground Defense against George Zimmerman. He was considered someone up to no good. Zimmerman even said that these punks always get away.
Lisa Bloom takes us on an excursion into the blunders of the prosecution that paved the way for a not guilty verdict. This book is a must read for anyone interested in making sure this never happens again.
We learn how the prosecution failed to use the evidence that would force George Zimmerman to take the stand. You will see how expert witnesses were given a pass and how a ruling by the judge prevented the key words "racial profiling" from ever being used in the Opening Statement. The defense conveniently used race at the conclusion of the case to smear Trayvan Martin. They put a woman on the stand who was robbed by two blacks.
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