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Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman: Both were in the right—-and both were deadly wrong
Tuesday, June 25, 2013 | Kristinn Taylor

Posted on 06/25/2013 7:53:51 AM PDT by kristinn

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1 posted on 06/25/2013 7:53:51 AM PDT by kristinn
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The only thing Little Trayvon had to do that night to not die was to not physically assault George Zimmerman, or anyone else.

Just because somebody annoys you does not mean you have the right to pummel them. That is the foundation of civilized society.

2 posted on 06/25/2013 7:56:44 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Religious faith in government is far crazier than religious faith in God.)
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To: kristinn
I will remind you of how this started:

LITTLE TRAYVON: "You got a problem?"

MONSTER GEORGE: "No."

LITTLE TRAYVON: "You do now."

3 posted on 06/25/2013 7:58:23 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Religious faith in government is far crazier than religious faith in God.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Exactly right. Well said.


4 posted on 06/25/2013 7:59:01 AM PDT by GBA (Rubio and the rinos have the GOP Whigging out)
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To: kristinn

Nope, pounding someones head on the concrete would never be considered legitimate self defense under any circumstances.


5 posted on 06/25/2013 8:00:44 AM PDT by thorvaldr
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To: kristinn

That is a good analysis, Kristinn. Probably very close to how the whole incident went down.

HST, my contention is that Martin provoked the fight that led to his death — he could have — should have — gone to his father’s condo rather than conFRonting Zimmerman.

I’ll be interested to see how the lawyers FRame it in their arguments and counter-arguments.

I’m rooting for a Zimmerman acquittal, followed by a Zimmerman lawsuit against the state of Flori-duh for wrongful arrest and prosecution.


6 posted on 06/25/2013 8:03:00 AM PDT by Taxman (So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
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I disagee.

IF (big if) Zimmerman made mistakes, they were overridden by the mistakes and bad decisions Martin made. Mistakes which cost NO_LIMIT_***** his life.

And then to compound this miscarriae of justice - racist overtones by Crump, Sharpton, Obama and other racists have only added fuel to the fire.


7 posted on 06/25/2013 8:04:17 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: thorvaldr
...pounding someones head on the concrete would never be considered legitimate self defense under any circumstances.

Of course, we are told that all of these wounds were self-inflicted. Kind of like falling on your own knife - five times.

8 posted on 06/25/2013 8:05:39 AM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: kristinn; E. Pluribus Unum

If T had gone back to the apt and gone inside, instead of trying to find and confront the person he said was following him, he would not have died that night, nor would Z be in this trouble.

This will be twisted around - already has been -that Z was wrong for following T and doubly wrong for allegedly not doing what the dispatcher said, with the caveat that Z did head back to his vehicle after the dispatcher’s statement, but was confronted anyway.

But the simple point is that Z was well within his rights to be looking at the individual’s movements that night, and that once T said somebody’s following me, all that needed to happen was for T to go inside the apt.


9 posted on 06/25/2013 8:06:29 AM PDT by txrangerette ("...hold to the truth; speak without fear". - Glenn Beck)
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I’m all for thinking about both sides of the story. The problem is that your presentation TM is simply noncredible. Your own post had to back TM up five years in age to pretend that he was anything other than the street fighting druggie gangsta thug that his Facebook, IMs, school records, and all the other evidence shows he is.

You paint the question of why he didn’t go back to his family’s house as something to wonder about. The creep circled around to confront GZ. There’s no innocent conduct here. And even if this was just a stupid kid who made all the wrong choices that night, that doesn’t change the fact that GZ was justified in believing that TM meant him death or imminent bodily harm.


10 posted on 06/25/2013 8:06:30 AM PDT by FateAmenableToChange (As as)
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It is quite likely that the unarmed Trayvon Martin died believing he was fighting for his life

That realization may have occurred to him for the first time about 2 seconds before he expired. Up until that point, I think it was all fun and games for the little thug.

11 posted on 06/25/2013 8:08:16 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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Does anyone know over what distance these events took place? Or how far Trayvon would had to have walked to get back to the apartment he was returning to?

If he’d just kept on walking, how far was he from his destinaiton after he saw Zimmerman?


12 posted on 06/25/2013 8:08:58 AM PDT by Will88
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Some people feel free to speculate that Little Trayvon was frightened of Monster George, then treat that speculation as fact.

The only real facts we have are that Monster George had been beaten and Little Trayvon had not.

All the evidence points to Little Trayvon being shot while in the act of beating Zimmerman.

Unless you want to be like England and make self-defense a crime, Monster George is innocent.

13 posted on 06/25/2013 8:09:52 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Religious faith in government is far crazier than religious faith in God.)
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Trayvon Martin - Basic Geography May Cut Against Zimmerman (Or Not - See UPDATE)

14 posted on 06/25/2013 8:12:17 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Religious faith in government is far crazier than religious faith in God.)
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That's pretty much the way I suspect it happened too...

The entire prosecution case seems to be based on GZ's ONE statement about "these ass-holes always get away with it"... That statement is an explanation for why GZ FOLLOWED him... in no way does it show an intent to go KILL somebody.

There'd better be some additional, SHOCKING new evidence if they expect to get a guilty verdict.

15 posted on 06/25/2013 8:15:38 AM PDT by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them f)
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What rubbish! The drug abusing, high on pot, jewlerly stealing, purple drank guzzing, suspended from school, fight club member, THUG, Trayvon Martin, did not fear for his life because of a cell phone.

If Martin had gone in his pocket to pull out his cell phone and Zimmerman had pulled his gun and shot him to death, would ANYBODY say he was justified?

Martin was a THUG, high on drugs, who resented being questioned by a neighborhood watchman and then brutally attacked him.


16 posted on 06/25/2013 8:15:41 AM PDT by Above My Pay Grade (The people have the right to tell government what guns it may possess, not the other way around.)
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To: kristinn

Nobody has the right to try to administer a beat down on another person just because they looked at them. Even if they are stoned and not thinking

Trayvon earned what he got.


17 posted on 06/25/2013 8:16:04 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The jerk missed/skipped 53 days of school. Students go to school 5 days a week. 53 days is almost 11 weeks of school missed. Kind of a lot, eh?


18 posted on 06/25/2013 8:17:05 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: kristinn

The goal of the Circus in Sanford is to get both the Stand Your Ground law and the Castle Doctrine struck down, creating court precedent for Leftist activists to get similar laws in other states stricken from the books.

That way, citizens cannot defend themselves when the Gibsmedats come boiling out of the urban kraals. Jesse and Al, as well as the NBPP, have already stated that there WILL be riots, regardless of the verdict.

Back-door Gun Control, legislated from the bench. That’s all there ever is or was to this case.


19 posted on 06/25/2013 8:17:39 AM PDT by Old Sarge (My "KMA List" is growing daily...)
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It is not known why Martin did not go straight to his father’s then-girlfriend’s townhouse. He could have gotten disoriented in the evening rain as he tried to get away from the stranger, or he could have decided to confront the stranger who had gotten out of his vehicle in the rain to follow him.


That right there is pretty much everything, and what saves Z’s butt. Fact is, the timeline and the geographic locations of events all point to Martin doubling back and surprising Z.

And they forgot to mention that witness * testified that she told Martin to just let it go, but he didn’t. This is BEFORE Z and M met again.


20 posted on 06/25/2013 8:18:14 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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