Justice is never served by inflamed rhetoric or mob mentality. A young man is dead. An investigation is being conducted. The national outcry is no longer merely about Justice for the dead young man and for the man who shot him. Some of the leaders of this outcry rouse not for Justice but for their own issues and agendas. To say, as cited in this article, that this incident "echoes" the death of Emmett Till in 1954 is ridiculous. Said by a Black preacher, who should no better than to interpose the horrible context of the Till murder, gives the assertion no greater credulity at this time. I point this out because it is included in one of the articles which presents a picture of the young man. I follow this with an article, one of comparatively few, about the man who shot and killed him. What parts were played by each person, their movements, their intent, the hoodie, the object in the young man's hand, etc. and what can be determined from taped and other contemporaneous conversations and other relevant evidence is for the investigation. What I see is a field of well and other meaning people tearing at the jail door to get at a man they have judged guilty of racial murder. Whether Black or White at that door - it is wrong.
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