Duggan : Twitter speaks its branes

Now why would you say something like this,

6 innocent people killed in the #duggan riots, and the media is obessing over death of this gun-toting drug dealer. #wato
— Edward Catflap (@Edward_Catflap) January 9, 2014

given that no evidence was presented in court to the effect that Duggan had a gun? Well, one reason would be that you are a massive racist who assumes that all young black men are drug-dealing gangsters.

Now, although they are evidence for a diseased society, Twitter trolls are one thing.  The quoted tweet is one of hundreds along similar lines - look at the #duggan hashtag. What is altogether more concerning is that a similar process of reasoning seems to have gone on inside the heads of eight jurors.