Breaking News: George Zimmerman Found Not Guilty!

[TheBlackNaruto]

timmah said:

TheBlackNaruto said:

dsgrue3 said:
Just me or are the ones defending Trayvon the most ignorant here?

We have heard several times about cops telling Zimmerman to stop following, even though this never happened.
We have heard several times that Zimmerman confronted Trayvon, even though there is no evidence for this at all.
We have heard several times that Zimmerman was stalking Trayvon, even though this is utter nonsense.

I can't deal with the breadth of ineptitude.

I have to say though...if Zimmerman did not confront him then how else did they come in to contact? I mean Trayvon wasn't following him he was fllowing Tayvon. That is the thing that bothers me more than anything else. Because if THIS did not happen then the rest is just irrelevant and would not have happened.

Following is not the same thing as a confrontation.There was 4 minutes between when Zimmerman lost sight of Trayvon and when the altercation occured according to the dispatch call. During this time (and right before the attack), Zimmerman told the dispatcher he was heading back to his truck to meet police. It sounds like Trayvon confronted Martin for following him earlier, and the fight ensued. From the physical evidence, it appears that Trayvon was the only one doing any punching. Are you saying it's impossible in that 4 minutes for Trayvon to have hidden and/or started following Zimmerman instead? Since he attacked Z after this 4 minute window, we can assume reasonably that his intent in hiding during that 4 minutes was to wait for a time to confront and attack Z, not to get home safely or go for help (which he could have done in that time). If he was pissed off enough to beat Z's head into the concrete (which was corroborated by physical evidence and eyewitness testimony by the way), is there no way that he was also pissed off enough to be the one to start the confrontation?

See there again is the issue that is according to Zimmerman(seeing as he is the only one around to tell his story and match it to the eveidence), there is no evidence that he landed a punch not that he didn't throw any. And I may have missed it but did they say Trayvon had any blood on him that belonged to Zimmerman? I mean if he was pucnhing him and slamming his head like that with Zimmerman bleeding from the head I can't see there being none of his blood on him(I missed that part of the case so I am unsure on it). Again itis nothing but here say because there is no one other than Zimmerman to argue another side realy...which is sad.

And to put it bluntly I agree with Soundwave the verdict was indeed correct according to the law and the evidence. But Zimmerman was indeed the root cause of the incident by doing the things that he did(albeit those things were not "illegal")