I will never understand why sports writers try to interject themselves into things other than sports. Keith Olbermann is the most obvious example of a sports analyst trying to be a political expert. Mike Lupica is another example of a jock sniffer trying to be an intellectual giant. He is a Far Left loon who uses his sports knowledge as a cover to push his Progressive agenda. Not being able to help himself, Lupica goes on a self-righteous rant about the Zimmerman acquittal.
This was the main event playing out now in the courtroom in Sanford, Fla., and live on television, a minute before 10 o’clock. It was playing out fast in the courtroom, just four or five minutes from the time Judge Debra Nelson said, “No outburst on the reading of the verdict” until she told George Zimmerman, “You have no further business in this court.”
So what started on a rainy night in February 2012 when Zimmerman, a wannabe cop with a gun, decided that an unarmed 17-year-old kid named Trayvon Martin was a threat because there had been break-ins around Retreat View Circle, decided Martin was some kind of suspect for the crime of walking around black in a hoodie, ended with a “not guilty” verdict on Saturday night.
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“We believe in the right to bear arms and the right to self-defense,” de la Rionda said. “We just don’t believe in this case it was appropriate.”
Because it sure was not. You keep going back to Zimmerman’s call to that dispatcher. “He’s up to no good,” George Zimmerman said, with absolute nothing to back up that claim. “He’s on drugs or something,” Zimmerman said. About a black kid in a hoodie he had decided was some kind of menace to his neighborhood.
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A few minutes that changed everything. A few more minutes to end it Saturday night. George Zimmerman finally gets to do what he should have done in the first place: Walk away.
Mike Lupica should stick to sports. He really does not know what he is talking about here and is no legal expert.
