From what the article reports, the arrest was the trial. He posted a mugshot of the suspect on Facebook and made the "tree and a rope" comment. One wonders if his comment under the mugshot of a white suspect would have been "time for reasonable doubt, a good attorney, a fair trial, judgment by his peers, and respect for the law no matter the outcome."
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
