Soundwave said:
Slimebeast said:
"you are in danger". No, he didn't feel that way. Witness accounts don't support that. You do not know how young men tend to be very confident and have attitude problems and being very protective of their integrity, manhood and pride? I have no diffuclty imagining this young man was easily provoked just like millions of other young steroid filled young men are. He realized this older man was following him and while walking for a couple of minutes he started to feel increasingly offended and got angrier and angrier until it boiled over.
If there are several people in this very thread alone thinking Zimmerman did something morally very wrong by following the young man and acting like a wannabe cop, then why wouldn't the young man feel the same thing and decide he would teach him a lesson? There are several people in this thread who argue it would have been right and perfectly understandable if Trevyon attacked Zimmerman for stalking him.
I do think it's plausible that Zimmerman physically grabbed his jacket though. I can imagine that from a wanna-be cop who thinks he is on to something, who thinks he is about to catch a burglar. But, we don't have any evidence of that, and on the other hand Zimmermans testimony when he is re-enacting the crime scene he gives a very believable and genuine impression.
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I think it's just pure stupidity what Zimmerman did more than anything. And a kid is dead because of his stupidity. Don't create a situation like that if you don't know how to handle it, and the only people who do know how to handle that are fully trained police officers.
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Again I agree with Soundwave.
And seriously Slimebeast him being a teenage boy is really irrelevant ANY NORMAL person would feel threated if someone did the things ZImmerman did. It is not so much teach him a lesson it is more so not knowing what a stranger that has been following you in their car ADN that got out of the car to come find you was going to do. That would make any sane person feel thereatened easily(IMO that is anyway). And we don't have evidence that Zimmerman grabbed him because we only have Zimmerman to give his side of the stroy. And he is definitely not going to say he grabbed him because that would change A LOT of what actually happened.
Again just a sad case that could have been easily avoided.
