I find these articles interesting from so many commentators, who say we shouldn’t rush to judgement, but then start out like this article, claiming that deadly force was not necessary in this case.
The guy was having his head beat on the pavement. If someone is beating my head into the pavement, and I have a gun, I am going to use it to stop my head from being bashed into the pavement. If that results in the death of my assailant, so be it.
There are questions about what happened up to that point. Maybe that is what these articles are referring too. But once Martin had Zimmerman on the ground, and was bashing his brains out, the dynamic changed, as gaining the upper hand based on strength, and then using that strength to cause head injuries to your opponent, that is the definition of deadly force. A gun is not required to project deadly force. Neither is a knife. No, we humans can do that with our bare hands, and I firmly belive T.M. was doing that the night he met his maker.
The dirty little secret is that Trayvon shot himself. Mr. Zimmerman wasn't pulling the gun to fire at Trayvon at all, and is unlikely to have had his finger on the trigger, especially if he was in a tug of war with it.