Tamron Hall apologizes for showing body of Trevon Martin

[bigdarryl]

Im all for showing those photos she has nothing to apologize for in my opinion.Look the defense team has been bashing Travon as a thug and a criminal since day one.Showing those photos of that child lying dead humanize's him and I think it would do this country good to show those photos especially to all these fake pro-lifers who some are calling for Zimmerman to be free FUCKING !!!! Hypocrites http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/3591047/

[Cirque du So-What]

1. I believe it was the right thing to do as well

In fact, I wonder if it had been better to release that photo much earlier. It would have gone a long way toward debunking Z's testimony, as I see nothing on Trayvon Martin's pants to indicate a 'scuffle' where he was atop Z, bashing his head onto the concrete.

[bigdarryl]

2. Funny how this country is so violent

But yet we become skirmish over a photo of a dead person

[Cirque du So-What]

4. I'm a bit squeamish about the photo myself

but I still believe it needs to be seen - as I do the casualties of war. The public is better served by seeing the reality of actions and policies instead of living within an insulated bubble where unpleasant images never trouble their 'beautiful minds.'

[frazzled]

3. We are only used to seeing fake dead bodies on TV and in the movies

And that's apparently okay. They're rampant in commercial films, and always have been.

Perhaps its time that Americans are exposed to the real images of gun violence in our country, which is sanitized. As opposed to the fictional world of violence in TV and movies, which can be as gory as possible and is not, apparently, shocking to anyone (except me).

I can understand that the media should not be littered with images of dead bodies. But every once in a while, this kind of image is a graphic reminder of what is at stake when a young person is gunned down.

In the 1930s and 40s the great (lurid) photojournalist Weegee shot murder scenes and dead bodies in abundance. http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2012/jan/19/weegee-murder-photographs-pictures-new-york

[tblue37]

5. Emmett Till's mother insisted that

the photos of her son's brutalized face be widely publicized. She wanted people to see what racist thugs had done to her very young son (he was just 14).

I think America also needs to see the reality of what was done to this kid.

[11 Bravo]

6. And that was Mrs. Till's right. I wish the Martin family had been given the same choice.

[Arkansas Granny]

7. +1

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. Why?

We need those photos...to drive it home, it's not a Hollywood production.

[pamela]

9. I think they should make a t-shirt or billboard with it.

Welcome to Florida. Do you know where your children are?