Zimmerman shot someone to death after deciding to assault a teenager returning from a walk to the store.
That so many FReepers decide to defend someone who was looking for trouble is troubling. Zimmerman is not a hero of the 2nd Amendment. That so many FReepers are quick to label any black person as a thug or a "hood rat" is a disgrace.
I'm not rushing to label anyone, but I have to say that the old White Guilt thing doesn't work on me.
If a large number of Americans think of blacks as thugs, I'd say that the behavior of a large number of blacks is a contributing factor. If black people would clean up their ghetto culture and actually try to assimilate into mainstream society, they might find far fewer people thinking of them as thugs.
That's not a comment about Trayvon Martin, but a general comment about America in 2012.
I think a more likely senario is Zimmerman began following the teen who resented being followed by a obviously to him bigoted person. He confronted him. So far, no problem, Zimmerman is within his rights to follow anyone on a public street he wished to since not being in law enforcement he can profile. Confronting someone following you is also not a threat either. Now is when the plot thickens. Did Zimmerman say something to in flame the teen? We will never know. Did the teen begin pummeling him, well, some alleged evidence points to that. If so, case closed as far as criminality.
Next up the civil case which will not go well for Zimmerman and perhaps the homeowners association who tacitly approved of his acting as an untrained square badge.
All IMHO of course.
“That so many FReepers are quick to label any black person as a thug or a “hood rat” is a disgrace.”
i absolutely agree. Zimmerman was told not to follow Martin. In the 911 call Zimmerman says ‘he’s running away’. Zimmerman followed, probably scared the kid. If there were ‘blows’, the KID was defending himself. Zimmerman then shot him.
Zimmerman stalked this kid. Zimmerman is a ‘wannabe stud he-man hero’. The police were incompetent.
2nd degree murder charges should be filed against Zimmerman.
Base on what I read so far, the glaring problem Zimmerman faces is following Martin after the police operator told him not to and let the police do that when they arrive. Post 17 outlines witness seeing Martin on top of Zimmerman giving him a beating before Zimmerman while pinned to the ground was able to get his handgun out and shoot his beater. What happen between that time and the time Zimmerman shot Martin is going to determine his innocence or guilt?