Sorry Whistle stop. I know that the high emotion of something like this can come out as a "know it all" thing. However, if we've learned one thing in the last 10 years it's that the juries in situations like this appear to be chosen for their stupidity, ignorance and inability to follow the simplest news story. Both defence and prosecution put huge effort into rejecting potential jurors who have anything going for them intellect-wise. I gather they try to have a totally blank canvass (jury-wise) in order to use every legal trick and loophole to plead their cases.Truth is much more likely to emerge from the media (IF YOU READ ALL POINTS OF VIEW) than the court room.
Those who excuse violent crime because of ethnicity, and violent police behaviour because "they're the good guys", are still using ideology rather than common sense....and nothing will change.
Rick