d21lewis said:
thismeintiel said:
d21lewis said:
thismeintiel said:
And I bet in the same breath you'll tell me Zimmerman was a racist.
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Maybe not a racist. A murderer, though.
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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.
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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.
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If I remember correctly, the reason Zimmerman couldn't make it as a cop was because he didn't meet the physical requirements. Which, if look at his old mug shot, he did seem quite a bit out of shape. It seems to me that he lost quite a bit of weight (the news media was originally reporting he had about 100 lbs over Trayvon, when it was only ~30lbs. and Trayvon had ~3-4 inches on the him.) I'm guessing he was shaping up so he could finally join the police force. So who knows what would have become of him if this never happened.
I do agree with you that he should have never got out of his vehicle. I mean I can kinda understand why he did. There had been a series of robberies in his neighborhood, I don't think there were any arrests, and he felt he may actually have the guy who did it. And according to him, he did stop following when the dispatcher told him to do so. Still, he shouldn't have put himself in the at position. And if Zimmerman's story is actually what happened, and so far there isn't really any evidence to prove otherwise, then Trayvon had no right to become physically aggressive to the guy no matter how much he didn't like being followed.
It will be interesting to continue to follow this case. I just hope those who wanted this so badly don't move the goal post yet again (originally a lot were saying they just wanted him to be brought in and questioned, but when it was shown that he actually was they changed it to wanting him arrested and charged) and demand him to get life. One, that isn't happening. And two, they may use it as an excuse to spread more violence.
