I wrote about the Zimmerman trial today for Politico. When the controversy first broke, I thought it was a mistake not to charge Zimmerman and for that reason, the protestors were right to call attention to the case. But practically every day that has passed in the trial has made the initial police handling of the matter look better and my initial judgment look worse. Certainly, second-degree murder was gross over-charging. And the racial angle, which was always over-played, looks frankly absurd given what we now know:

To the extent that the trial has any larger meaning, it is a tale of the left’s desperation to indict contemporary America as a land of rank racism, different in degree, perhaps, but not in kind from 1950s Mississippi. That’s where Emmett Till, to whom Trayvon Martin has often been compared, was brutally murdered for whistling at a white woman.
Mentioning Martin in the same breath as Till is an offense against history and common sense.