Zimmerman / Martin Shooting

[Gringo]

I'm just glad there is one less scumbag in the world.

[Supreme]

So the dumbasses in Florida cannot convict a mother that killed her daughter and Zimmerman is suppose to somehow be worried because?

[Jburks8]

There was a witness who said that Trayvon had mounted him and was "whooping his ass", so it isn't just a one-sided story.. (Zimmerman didn't have self-inflicted wounds).

Trayvon wasn't just walking on the sidewalk, he was walking in between houses at a leisurely pace when it was raining pretty heavily.

If I saw that, no matter what the race, I would probably have a double-take. That is somewhat odd behavior. Sure, it's "just water", but the average person doesn't do that.

There was also a history in the neighborhood of break-ins, so that was another reason Zimmerman felt compelled to act.

[Arillious]

Does anyone really just think that martin was just walking around completely innocent? If Zimmerman was really just a racist bastard looking for blood, he would of taken it out on someone sooner.

[Arclyte]

Z man gonna get off

mass scale chimp out in florida will occur

intelligent people everywhere will facepalm

[LordFresh]

So far we are 28 that Zimmerman is right
11 say Martin was right.

With all the out rage and people afraid to say in public that martin was wrong im actually a bit surprised at the results so far.

[Messianic]

If you've actually read the available facts in this case, you can't conclude that Zimmerman is a murderer - maybe overzealous, maybe a moron, maybe not - but there was no "murder" here.

Maybe there's additional info out there that the prosecution is holding on to, but I doubt it.

No less than Dershowitz himself has argued the same publicly.

[LordFresh]

agreed - murder by definition is a act were you are fully aware you are going to take anothers life before anything has even happened.

Somehow they feel he knew he was going to take Martins life before any confrontation.

[Zereh]

Originally Posted by Messianic

but there was no "murder" here

It wasn't a self-inflicted wound that caused Martin's death and it was not an accident by any stretch of the imagination. So yeah, it's murder. Just because you empathize with the lighter-skinned thug doesn't mean that you get call it anything other than what it was.

[Hitchens]

There is no single cause of Trayvon's death. One must factor in the choices made by Trayvon himself, which were very poor.