How Can We Smear Thee

Let us count the ways when justice is hiding.  Think Progress reports here on that campaign against Trayvon Martin, including a discussion of the empty plastic bag blogged earlier with pot traces.  TP asserts this information was selectively leaked by the Sanford Police Department in an attempt to ruin the teenager's reputation, a story also (and obviously) irrelevant to the murder of a minor walking home with skittles and ice tea to watch sports on television. 

From Huffpost:

The Sanford Police Department insisted there was no authorized release of the new information but acknowledged there may have been a leak.  City Manager Norton Bonaparte Jr. said it would be investigated and the person responsible could be fired.

Martin family attorney Benjamin Crump said the link between the youth and marijuana should have no bearing on the probe into his shooting death. State and federal agencies are investigating, with a grand jury set to convene April 10.

"If he and his friends experimented with marijuana, that is completely irrelevant," Crump said. "What does it have to do with killing their son?"  

The state Department of Juvenile Justice confirmed Monday that Martin does not have a juvenile offender record. The information came after a public records request by The Associated Press.

"They killed my son and now they're trying to kill his reputation," said Sybrina Fulton, Trayvon's mother.

Meanwhile, the Sanford Police Department still has not charged and arrested George Zimmerman - which is what their job is supposed to be in an alternate universe.

Below is a new rap song written for Trayvon by Jasiri X (based on "No Church in the Wild" by Jay-Z & Kanye West), and in a performance and protest hosted by the House of the Lord Church in Brooklyn, New York.  You can read Jasiri X's lyrics at the youtube link and also see another video version here where Jasiri walks listeners through events that evening directly in the gated community neighborhood where Trayvon was killed.