So I kept hearing about this george zimmerman shooting a black kid story and finally got around to looking it up. I assumed it was just being sensationalized, but holy crap.
Here is what I thought from AM radio: Some racist white ex cop was going around a neighborhood playing vigilante and shot a black kid for coming at him.
Here is what happened. A hispanic insurance agent who got put in charge of the neighborhood watch called 911 reporting someone acting strange. Then when he went to confront him shit went down one way or the other and the black kid got shot. Note the black "kid", while not huge, is 17 and larger than me (6'3" 160). Of course the pictures shown of him are from when he was like 12.
I do my best to be wary of anything the news reports, but they even got me with this one.
Note: This thread is not supposed to be about this specific event, it is about how the media cannot be trusted to correctly report even the most basic facts of a story.