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12:05 PM, March 29th, 2012
Zoom If the police video of George Zimmerman being taken into questioning shows what it appears to show, if Zimmerman really was devoid of the injuries that had been so feverishly and eagerly recounted by his defenders, then we have on our hands an absolutely catastrophic failure on the part of the media, and one of the most dramatic, devastating examples in recent memory of the Internet’s power to decide “the facts” long before anyone has a clue what they are. So begins Jesse Singal’s piece on our outrage over the video George Zimmerman’s without the injuries he alleged sustained before killing Trayvon Martin. 

If the police video of George Zimmerman being taken into questioning shows what it appears to show, if Zimmerman really was devoid of the injuries that had been so feverishly and eagerly recounted by his defenders, then we have on our hands an absolutely catastrophic failure on the part of the media, and one of the most dramatic, devastating examples in recent memory of the Internet’s power to decide “the facts” long before anyone has a clue what they are.

So begins Jesse Singal’s piece on our outrage over the video George Zimmerman’s without the injuries he alleged sustained before killing Trayvon Martin. 

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