re: "These cops bungled this case."
It's waaaay too soon to be making a statement like that, clo. You're sounding more and more like a certain bigoted President who once chastised a white policeman for the way he'd treated a black man, when he actually didn't have the slightest idea what he was talking about.
Here's what we DO know. The press orchestrated this thing into a racial incident from the very start, before they knew much of ANYTHING about it.
Outrage builds over Florida vigilante-style killing
By Barbara Liston
ORLANDO, Florida | Mon Mar 19, 2012 7:52pm EDT
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Fed by an international petition and celebrity tweets, public outrage is spreading over the Florida case of a white vigilante neighborhood watch captain who shot and killed an unarmed black teenager and escaped arrest.
More: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/19/us-usa-florida-shooting-idUSBRE82I17520120319
Got that? A WHITE neighborhood watch captain??? These racist bastards IN OUR PRESS ought to be strung up by their thumbs for a few hours for doing their best to turn an all-too-common tragedy into a race war.
Since the press screwed this story up from the get-go, I wouldn't put too much credibility into their criticisms of the police.
Here's the "WHITE" George Zimmerman.
Under the circumstances, I think we'd best wait for this thing to get ironed out before we draw any further conclusions about who bungled the case. We *ONLY* know for sure that the Press did.