Sorry, I thought I was unspinning it. Lots of spin just in the original headline.
Does anyone think it is impossible that Traynor Martin attacked without legal justification?
Does anyone think it impossible that George Zimmerman provoked Traynor Martin?
When we have two scenarios put forward for what happened, we have people we call police to gather the evidence and determine, at first cut, what story is consistent with the evidence.
In this case, we really have only one story, that of George Zimmerman. Traynor Martin is dead and cannot give his side of the story.
It was at night and the police were on the scene in minutes. Zimmerman was bleeding from the face and the back of the head.
It is hard to quickly come up with a fake story that fits the physical evidence at night when the police are there in minutes.
Could the police be in a conspiracy with George Zimmerman? I suppose it is possible, but I fail to see what they could possibly gain from it. In fact, they are under intense pressure to be politicaly correct and come up with evidence to charge him with.
The case will likely go before a Grand Jury, and that is probaly a good thing.
Sure it is, when the physical evidence only really corroborates the fact that there was a physical altercation of some sort. The physical evidence doesn't tell you, one way or the other, who started the fight or why. For that, you need to look at other evidence. In this case, the other evidence includes (1) 911 tapes that show, among other things, Zimmerman disregarding the 911 operator's instruction not to follow Martin; (2) the fact that Zimmerman was armed, and Martin was not; and (3) a total lack of any indication that Martin was involved in any criminal activity.