George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin

I've avoided until now mentioning anything about about the George Zimmerman trial now going on, but I just can't hold my tongue any longer. What happened was, any way you look at it, a tragedy. It would be nice to see that a tragedy doesn't turn to a travesty every once in a while. The travesty is this: George Zimmerman has already been tried and convicted, in the court of public opinion, before he ever set foot in the courtroom. What I would like to know, simply, is this....what new evidence, before the media chummed the water, was presented to make prosecutors reverse course on their "Stand Your Ground" decision? Who in the public actually took the time to research the facts of the case before they started wagging their chins and calling for blood? Does anyone now remember how facts of the case were misrepresented by the media just long enough to stir up a frenzy before they were "corrected"? Trayvon Martin is gone, and a jury will now decide the fate of George Zimmerman. That is all people tend to focus on, yet how many lives have been wrecked by the thousands of Tweets from ill-educated....Tweeters. There's an old Chinese form of torture called "Death by a Thousand Cuts". It is what its name implies. Such ignorant and misdirected statements are much like that and too often lead to innocent peoples lives being irreparably damaged, yet no one feels guilty because they're just words, spoken in anonymity and supposedly safe in numbers. Spike Lee even forced one family out of their home because he posted their address by mistake, rather than the Zimmerman's. Not that he had any right to post the Zimmerman's address...it was not the rest of his family who was involved. I think he apologized...that should about cover their cost of moving, right?
The Wikipedia article on the Trayvon Martin shooting is here. I suggest people read it, paying special attention to the sections 'Public Response' and 'Media Coverage'. I personally feel the the 'Media Coverage' section should have come before 'Public Response', as one led directly to the other...but they still did a very good job laying out just the facts of the case, which unfortunately nobody seemed to pay heed to before they opened their gobs.
An afterthought: Ask yourself a question and try to answer it as honestly and objectively as you can...would there have this much to-do had their races been reversed?