Headline of the Day

[Content Note: Violence; racism; dehumanization.]

WTF is this headline, LA Times?

screen cap of LA Times headline reading 'George Zimmerman murder trial may be getting personal'

I'm pretty sure the trial has been goddamned personal to a lot of people, like Trayvon Martin's parents, all the fuck along.

And from the accompanying article: "For the prosecution, [Sybrina Fulton, Trayvon Martin's mother] was the figure of sympathy." For the prosecution. For the defense, she is just an inconvenience to their wretched campaign to dehumanize Trayvon Martin into a personified threat against aggrieved heroes like George Zimmerman.

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Yes, I understand defense teams have a job to do. No, it does not make me any less contemptuous of the particular strategy of this defense team on behalf of their loathsome client.

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