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Opinion in regards to the Trayvon Martin shooting is sharply divided by means of race, a brand new USA As we speak/Gallup poll finds.

The divide is evident, while pollsters asked if George Zimmerman, the Community Watch volunteer who shot and killed the black, unarmed youngster, was once guilty of a crime.

Slightly greater than half of the African People polled stated he used to be "undoubtedly responsible," while solely 15 percent of non-blacks shared the identical opinion.

Blacks had been paying extra consideration to the case.

Seventy-two p.c of blacks said race played a "main issue" in "the occasions that led up to the taking pictures," whereas 35 % of non-blacks mentioned the same.

People were divided by manner of race when pollsters asked if Zimmerman may have "been arrested if the individual he shot used to be white." 73 % stated he would had been arrested; 40 p.c of non blacks said the same.

So what does all of this mean, past the plain? Gallup takes a stab at some analysis tying it to the O.J. Simpson case from the '90s. They write:

"U.S. public opinion concerning the Trayvon Martin case in Florida reflects the identical kind of racial divide found in 1995 surveys asking concerning the homicide trial of O.J. Simpson in Los Angeles. In a single Gallup ballot performed Oct. 5-7, 1995, for example, 78% of blacks mentioned the jury that discovered Simpson no longer guilty of homicide made the correct choice, while only 42% of whites agreed.

"The scenario in the Trayvon Martin case is different from the Simpson situation, nevertheless, because the sufferer, rather than the alleged wrongdoer, is black. Nonetheless, each conditions, although 17 years aside, it appears faucet into the identical deeply felt perspectives of the common black American that the legal justice machine in America is biased in opposition to blacks. Underscoring this end, a 2008 Gallup Minority Rights and Relations survey discovered that 67% of blacks mentioned the American justice machine was once biased towards blacks, a point of view solely 32% of non-Hispanic whites agreed with. Try Trayvon Martin Tees.