[presently no screen name]

Me neither. I read this shooting him was a grossly disproportionate response to a fistfight

They never stop being deceitful. Fistfight. LOL!

[Babba Gi]

Misappropriate use of force? I imagine the author never saw anyone killed by one punch. Tripping an eighty year old lady can be lethal. If she breaks a hip , odds are she will be dead in a year. Obviously Zimmerman was acting beyond his scope of expertise and the seventeen year old was a product of our culture of violence. The result was tragedy for both men.

My firearms instructor told me “the day you shoot a person will be the worst day of your life.” Hopefully, the race-baiters will not provoke more violence. If you are a hammer, the whole world looks like a nail; if you are a racist everything is solely about race.