From everything I’ve seen, this incident could be a case of a tragic misunderstanding. Zimmerman thought that Martin did not belong in the neighborhood, and got nervous. Martin thought someone was stalking him in a suspicious way. Things went downhill from there.
I’m not sure what would be proper justice if that scenario happened. Certainly not murder, but letting Zimmerman go scot-free may not be justice, either.
Why? Martin confronted Zimmerman first, and last time I checked you’re allowed to ask someone what they’re doing around the neighborhood with having them use concrete side walk to try and bash your brains out. Martin was also a good six inches taller than Zimmerman and thought he’d just take the lil’ nosy man out for “disrespecting” him by daring to question what he was up too walking around the gated community.
Its a matter of law not how one feels.
If you think Zimmerman shouldn’t go “scot-free” then he needs to have broken the law and in doing so someone died as a result.
Exactly where did he break the law?
It isn’t a crime to follow someone. It isn’t even a crime to ask the person being following what they are doing there. This was all on private property.
Sorry...
That was supposed to be “It isn’t even a crime to ask the person being followed what they are doing there.”
you are on target.
It's a certainty that a trial will clarify many of the things that are still being vigorously debated in all circles, completely eliminate some others, and make public many details that haven't even been guessed at yet.
I know that when I feel I am being followed I do not attempt to confront the person. I get out of the area in the shadows. If the person confronts me and I have no choice but to respond, I would be very brief and ask who they are and why they are questioning me. If they punch me out, then game on, but...we know that Zimmerman did not punch and break his nose nor pound his head into the ground nor did he pull his gun. How do we know that? Zimmerman had grass on his back, a gash on his head, a witness heard screams. The man with the red shirt on the ground was Zimmerman yelling for help per the witness. It was Zimmerman with a gash on his head, a broken nose and grass on his shirt. Now could it be that Trayvon was held at gunpoint and jumped Zimmerman? Then why was Zimmerman beaten up so badly? Now were the screams Zimmermans? Gee. Since he is the one with the gashes and a broken nose, I would have to say yes. If Trayvon had similar injuries, we would know both people could have started the physical fight. Why on earth did a fight happen if Zimmerman had his gun and just wanted to blow Trayvon away? It happened because Trayvon jumped Zimmerman.
I agree with this portion of your comments and often discuss it in a similar manner.
I strongly disagree with your closing remark that it would be an injustice if Zimmerman went scot-free.
Much depends on exactly what happened when these two men came to resolve their suspicions of one another.
What ?
The witness stated the 6 foot 1 football player was slamming
George’s head into the cement !
Would you allow yourself to be beaten to death just to not upset the riled youth !
Have you ever been MUGGED !
There you go. Making assumptions and predisposed without hearing all the facts empanelled. No jury duty on this for you, friend.
Yes, that was my first thought before I spent some time really reading about the case. From all that is known, particularly about the timeline and locations (none of which is dependent upon Zimmerman’s account) the one thing that I am absolutely certain did not happen is Zimmerman chasing, pursuing or stalking Martin.
Zimmerman first saw Martin a 3-4 minute walk (or less) from the house where Martin was staying. Zimmerman’s call lasted more than four minutes. Zimmerman lost sight of Martin two minutes before hanging up with police, and Martin, at that time, was only about 100 yards from home.
If Martin was nervous, or even if he wasn’t nervous, but he just wanted to go home, he had more than enough time to do so before Zimmerman’s initial call even ended.
Yet five minutes after leaving Zimmerman’s sight, he lay dead on the ground, not 250 feet from Zimmerman’s car.
I do not know why he didn’t go home, I only know that he could have done so if he wanted to, and Zimmerman couldn’t have stopped him without the police operator hearing the whole thing.
Obviously, I have no idea exactly what happened in the two and a half minutes between Zimmerman hanging up and the beginning of the 911 calls, but Martin fleeing from a pursuing Zimmerman is the least likely possibility.
Tragic misunderstanding, yeah good chance that’s it.
SOMEBODY initiated unwarranted combat.
Methinks the one who did already got capital punishment for doing so.