thismeintiel said:
I think the prosecutor has aimed too high with the murder charge, and he is most likely going to be acquited. Really, if you wanted to charge him with anything, and have a good possibility it would stick, it would have to be involuntary manslaughter. As it is, she is going to have to prove without a shadow of a doubt that Zimmerman was the sole agressor and Trayvon was only defending himself. From what we know now, there is no evidence that proves that. And in the affidavit, there was no mention of new evidence. Just basically a different view of the events that happened. I will say this, Trayvon's parents are not going to like this process. From the beginning they have tried to make their son out to be an innocent boy, with the 4-5 year old pictures and the interviews saying he was just a good kid. Of course, since then things have come out that show that isn't the most accurate picture. What do they think Zimmerman's defense lawyer is going to do in court? He's going to start looking seriously into Trayvon's background, and there may be some more things there that don't paint him in the most favorable light. Things that may have been on his Twitter and/or Facebook before his parents deleted his account. Such as the one Tweet from his cousin about Trayvon taking a swing at a bus driver. |
Yeah, I don't think Zimmerman was a murderer. I think he was just way too proactive and over confident (having a gun used to give me superhuman confidence too because I know that no matter what happened, I would "win"). When I was a cop, we had guys that REALLY wanted to be a cop. They were called "Holster Sniffers". For some reason or another, they couldn't be cops so they became fire fighters, security guards, etc. They often tried to hang out with us, ride along with us, and just impress us with their general knowledge of cop stuff. Nothing in the world would make them feel better than for a cop to say, "You would have made a great cop." You could just feel them jizzing in their pants. I think Zimmerman was one of those guys. He really wanted to be a hero. From what I understand, he got a taste of it before by stopping a robbery in progress. Unfortunately, he did something he wasn't trained for and had no authority to do. As a result, he provoked a situation that got somebody killed.
I don't think he acted in malice (or at least he didn't intend to kill anyone). He just tried to be a hero by going after an "innocent" person. Maybe Martin was overly aggresive. Maybe Martin was a bad seed. I don't know. The fact remains that he wasn't doing anything wrong at the time he was approached by Zimmerman. Zimmerman had no right to interrogate, detain, or pursue. He could observe, but that's it.
A murder charge won't stick and if it does, it will easily be appealed. Nobody is innocent in this one, though. Martin had some sketchy things in his background (reason for suspension, etc.) and so did Zimmerman (history of violence). It'll be interesting to see how the events play out and the ramifications it has.
