Grasping at straws.
. . . Bloom noted that Zimmerman used profane language when describing Martin to a 911 dispatcher and later with police. She did, however, note that the language Zimmerman used was not “racially insensitive.”
“Whoa,” Touré interrupted. “There was a trifecta of stereotypes used against Trayvon Martin in the initial phone call, so let’s not go too far there.”
“What are you referring to?” Bloom asked.
Touré said that Zimmerman saying “they always get away” and believing that Martin was carrying a gun suggests that the accused assailant was buying into racial stereotypes. Touré said that Zimmerman was “criminalizing black men” in those comments and fueled the perception that this was a “radicalized situation.”
“First of all, some of what you said is not what George Zimmerman said on that recorded phone call,” Bloom said. “Some of that is inferences that we’re drawing.”