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thismeintiel on 03 July 2013
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enditall727 said:
Areym said:

enditall727 said:

 
I don't believe that his original intentions were to kill Ttayvon though. I think they both reacted poorly and it got to a point where Zimmerman shot Trayvon.


This basically describes the incident. Both people acted on poor judgement, a physical confrontation ensued and GZ acted in self defense, causing Trayvon's death. Again, I think he will walk but we'll just have to wait and see.


Yes, he might. I see why Badgenome keeps stressing about there being a reaction if Zimmerman walks away from this freely and untouched.

 

Should've just left the damn kid alone or atleast made it less obvious that he was following him

 

I feel like he should atleast get like a year or something.(idk)

 

Oh well i guess

The problem with the bolded is that Trayvon lost Zimmerman.  He played football, after all.  Actually, this map shows that Trayvon definitely had time to get to the house he was staying at.

The timestamps correspond with Zimmerman's 911 call.  When Zimmerman was told he didn't need to chase or follow Trayvon, we can hear the wind start to die down as he slows to a stop, or walk.  If Trayvon was still running he could have made it to Brandy Green's house (where he was staying) and been inside by ~2:40.  Zimmerman's call lasted 4:05.  So really, even if Trayvon slowed down to a walk, he should have definitely been inside AT LEAST 30 secs before Zimmerman even completed his call to 911.  It's pretty obvious he double backed to confront Zimmerman.

The saddest part of this whole thing is that if Trayvon had gotten a hold of the gun and killed Zimmerman, this wouldn't have become nationwide news.  Or if Zimmerman was also black, this wouldn't have become nationwide news.  However, since the media wrongly assumed that Zimmerman was white because his dad was, they decided to create a race war, and portrayed the situation like this:

 

They only showed pics of Trayvon when he was 12/13, when he was now 17, 6 ft tall and athletically built.  Even going so far as to edit Zimmerman's 911 call, so it looked like he was bringing up Trayvon's race, when it was the dispatcher who asked about it.  And reporting that Zimmerman said "fucking coon," when he said "fucking cold."