<p>The name George Zimmerman has been one of the most well-known names in American media outlets. ; Since his acquittal in 2012 in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, he has been caught up again and again in the news. ; Since his not &#8220;guilty verdict&#8221;, he has had had three separate girlfriends accuse him of abusive behavior (one even claiming he smashed an iPad in a fit of anger), he has been caught up in a road-rage incident with a man named Matthew Apperson, and now, most recently, he has been shot at. ; George Zimmerman&#8217;s attacker in the recent event, the same Apperson as the road rage incident, has since been arrested and is in custody with several serious charges pending. ; So far, the legal system has yet to find any evidence of this man doing anything wrong in ANY of the previously mentioned events. ; </p>
<p>This has not stopped the court of public opinion from finding him to be a criminal who always sleezes his way out of trouble. ; Is this what American justice has come to today? ; Trials be damned and courts need not intervene, the people know all they need to know. ; The people have already found him guilty of being a racist, murdering, abusive little troll who deserves to be the victim of whatever some vigilante wants to do to him. ; </p>
<p>The most recent incident has ignited the Twitter world with an entire hashtag #WhenIHeardZimmermanGotShot posting over 12000 tags and his name being mentioned closed to 300,000 times. ; In the vast majority of cases, people lamented that Zimmerman wasn&#8217;t a blood splatter on the pavement of Lake Mary, Florida. ; People celebrate his attacker, and feel a sense of poetic justice in anything awful that happens to the man. ; This is the new America, unfortunately. ; A white-man (though even that is in question) has been dubbed a racist by the mainstream media and thus he is no longer deserving of due process and protection under the law. ; </p>
<p>Has vigilante justice made a come back? ; Can we expect more lynching by anti-racist mobs? ; Why don&#8217;t we just take Zimmerman out to a sycamore tree and string him up? ; The behavior of the media and twitterverse is shameful at best. ; It shows not only a bias that 21st Century public opinion has on those dubbed &#8220;racist&#8221;, it also shines a light into a bigger problem of a lack of faith in the American people towards our justice system. ; </p>