If I pick a fight and try start losing I can kill the guy attacking me and get off scott free.
Short answer, yes. A friend of mine got jumped in a McDonald's parking lot. The guy jumped him from behind and held him from behind while pounding on him. My friend managed to get a handhold and push the guy backwards into a car. He then proceeded to slam the guy's head into the car about four more times. My friend got charged with assault. The cop (and ADA) told him that he could have gotten away with one head-slam... but after he continued to slam after he had gotten free HE became the aggressor.
Zimmerman could have run up to Martin, called him the N-word, spit in his face and then slapped him. But the moment Martin got on top of Zimmerman and started to bang his head on the pavement, Martin became the aggressor. Period. You don't like it, change the LAW. Open your doe eyes...
Is getting out of your vehicle “picking a fight”?
If so, you better park your vehicle at the drive-through or you’re gonna die of starvation since you can never get out of your vehicle once you get in. lol.
Trayvon was staring at Zimmerman. Is that “picking a fight”? Why or why not?
You think Zimmerman TRIED to “start losing”? You think he WANTED a broken nose and a gash on the back of his head, so he’d have an excuse to shoot?
Zimmerman had lost Trayvon and was headed back to his truck. Anything Zimmerman initiated was done at that point. Trayvon was free to go home without Zimmerman even knowing where he was at.
But Trayvon didn’t let that be the end of the story, did he? His girlfriend heard him ask Z why he was following him, Z ask why Trayvon was in the neighborhood, and the next eyewitness account we have is from people saying that Trayvon was on top of Zimmerman.
No way did Zimmerman have a gun pointed at Trayvon and Trayvon still initiated a conversation when he could have slipped away and been home within 2 minutes. Not likely Zimmerman pulled a gun on Trayvon in response to Trayvon’s talk and still ended up with Trayvon on top of him.
The one who picked the fight was apparently Trayvon. So a more apt post would be.....
“sooo. let me get this right...
If I pick a fight by busting a guy’s nose and banging his head repeatedly on the ground and he shoots me in self-defense I can get the guy I attacked jailed for life or murdered by the Black Panthers?”
“If I pick a fight and try start losing I can kill the guy attacking me and get off scott free.”
Real slick there slick, make up a fake strawman argument, then make fake conclusions off of that! A loser all the way around!
JC