Why are people not outraged about this?

Here the roles are reversed.

Not in the media

not surprised.

I see the outrage machine that doesn't want to talk about the Trayvon Martin case any more still wants to talk about the Trayvon Martin case. Okay.

What made the Trayvon Martin case famous was the shocking refusal of Florida's officials to prosecute Zimmerman for what appeared to be a rather simple case of murder. It appeared that the officials didn't care about another case involving a black boy shot to death. It took six weeks of increasing public pressure for prosecutors, bowing to that pressure, to charge Zimmerman with murder.

By contrast, the black defendant in the case you cite was immediately charged with murder (later knocked down to manslaughter by a grand jury) for shooting a kid who was actually committing a crime. See the differences? There was no outrage because (1) prosecutors immediately recognized that case as a murder case, and (2) the victim was actually committing a crime.

It's sad that, just 17 months on, some people can't recall why the Martin-Zimmerman case became famous: it was because prosecutors, rightly or wrongly, didn't see that dead black kid as a murder victim.

but those initial assessments were correct. The evidence simply did not support a murder or even manslaughter charge. IMO is was professional misconduct to bring the murder 2 charge as there was absolutely no evidence of that even if you looked at everything in the light most favorable to the prosecution.

What made the Zimmerman case is so bad is wimpy politicians caved in and forced a prosecution of Zimmerman subverting the legal system to the political system in the state. Its plain wrong Matrian’s family and Zimmerman were both owed more.

Wait a sec Chili....Martin wasn't a murder victim, that's been proven.

You are smart enough to know that modern media picks and chooses its topics and stories that it wants the masses to get excited about. It then presents them in a way that individuals can argue the points according to their own "agendas", thus increasing interest and ratings..... It goes down hill fast from there.

I agree with a lot of this.

As I wrote here when Zimmerman was finally charged with murder, I didn't think he'd be convicted, that Florida's law on self-defense had become so perverted that basically people in fights like Zimmerman and Martin were in could just shoot each other to death without criminal punishment. I make lots of wrong predictions, but not that one (sadly).

My purpose in responding to loydthelover was to refute his suggestion that the Zimmerman-Martin case is the same as the case from New York a couple years ago and now running wild through the right-wing media (which claims to not want to talk about Zimmerman-Martin anymore). The cases share some attributes, but not the one that made this case famous, which was the outrage over what seemed to many to be a cut-and-dried case of murder being overlooked by prosecutors because the victim was just another dead black kid.

Are you trying to correct me? I didn't say Martin was a murder victim.

You need to read what I wrote.

What day is the Shooter's scheduled interview with Hannity?

No, he wasn't convicted of murder....but he should have been...just like OJ should have been....The incompetence of the prosection in both cases resulted in these unjust verdicts.....and before all the right wing gun nuts start chirping again, know this...eff off...and have a nice day.

"The incompetence of the prosection in both cases resulted in these unjust verdicts....."

What was the evidence that the prosecution screwed up?

The local police, the local DA & the FBI could not find any evidence of a murder. It was only after the special prosecutor went to the pray with the martin faimily that there was an indictment (without a grand jury).