"The character assassination of a dead 17 year old boy"
by digby
Chris Hayes on the backlash:
It was inevitable, I'm sorry to say.
I don't know how many of these awful people are out there, but they're out there. All you have to do is read the comment sections of any major news site and right wing blog to see them.
Those right wingers who are smearing the victim and tendentiously lecturing everyone about the presumption of innocence for George Zimmerman are the same ones, by the way, who say that anyone the government designates a terrorist is automatically guilty and has no rights. They always seem to rediscover due process when it suits them.
*For the record, I don't know if George Zimmerman is a racist or if he really believes he acted in self-defense. But there is no doubt that he shot and killed an unarmed 17 year old boy and that fact alone should require that he be subjected to more than a perfunctory police interview and set free.