Egann on 28 July 2013
The facts around the case alone are more than enough for me to cast judgement.
Zimmerman is guilty of stupidity, not racisim. You do not pack a gun to talk to a suspicious person unless you've got a badge. Suspicious does not call for lethal force, and having that kind of power is likely to make you less rational.
Still, if Martin were still alive, he would have been charged with assault and battery. At the moment he was shot, Martin was uninjured and Zimmerman had a broken nose. Both of them did stupid things which combined to make the incident, but on the whole I think Martin holds more of the blame. Zimmerman packing heat was foolish, but it was also not inherently criminal the way assault is.
