Quote Originally Posted by Vuk View Post
I feel to see how it is relevant.
Statistics about the likely outcome of a self-defense plea in a case that hinges on ... a self-defense plea. Seems pretty straightforward.

In part, I am reacting against the suggestion that the racial angle was completely invented out of whole cloth by the Evil Media. The media messed up many times, and got a great deal wrong, but I don't think the (false) racial narrative would have taken hold if there were not some reality people were reacting to.

There's a solid history of all-white juries refusing to convict people who killed black men. Is this case a result of that? Hell no.

There's irrefutable statistical evidence that a self-defense plea is much more likely to succeed if you are a white person killing a black person. Is that causal to the Zimmerman case? Hell no.

People grabbed this case and ran with it in some fundamentally wrong directions. Grant you that. But the notion that they were behaving in a vacuum, out of some imagined problem, is counter-factual.