baldeagle wrote:This is bigger than Zimmerman. This is a direct assault on the US Constitution. If they get away with this, there will be no stopping them.“They were calling on us to actively refer anyone who had any information,” that might build a case against Zimmerman for either a civil rights violation or a hate crime, Arnwine said. “They said they would very aggressively investigate this case.”
It's made even worse that Martin profiled Zimmerman as a gay Anglo before attacking him. It doesn't matter that Zimmerman was Hispanic and, as far as we know, straight. What matters is what Martin believed before he assaulted Zimmerman and if he attacked him because he thought he was Anglo or because he thought he was gay, that was a Hate Crime.