Thursday, July 25, 2013
WTF ??? CNN Guest Compares Alleged Murder Of Sex Offender To Zimmerman 'Vigilante Justice' ~> Video
Posted on 2:05 PM by Unknown
On Thursday, CNN investigated the odd case of a South Carolina man and his wife who decided it was their mission to hunt down and kill registered sex offenders. This clear example of calculated and deranged murder somehow inspired a panel guest to say that this case is an indicator that a "new world" characterized by "vigilante justice" -- like that she accused George Zimmerman of pursuing when he shot Trayvon Martin -- is upon us. This opinion is a dramatic misreading of the verdict in the Zimmerman trial, an example of selective outrage, and a sample of the irresponsible commentary that has become so lamentably common in the wake of that trial's outcome.Described as a story that could have been taken out of the pages of a script from the Showtime drama Dexter, CNN anchor Pam Brown revealed that a South Carolina man and his wife were recently arrested after confessing to killing two sex offenders. Police said that the incarcerated couple planned to kill more sex offenders and arrested them "just in time.When radio host Mo Ivory was asked for her thoughts on this story, she initially said that this was a clear case of first degree, premeditated murder. However, Ivory then identified a strain of vigilantism in this story that she said is the direct result of the not guilty verdict in the trial of George Zimmerman.This is not Zimmerman vigilante justice in our new world," Ivory said. "We cannot think that we can just decide now that we are the police and we will take care of anybody that we think is even suspected of doing something or actually did something."So, it's problematic that we are starting to see this kind of behavior going on in our country and, you know, that people think it's okay," Ivory concluded. More
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