Zimmerman could have waited for the police.They want to make this about race and will continue to do so. And THAT is a tragedy almost as much as the fact that Trayvon Martin is dead. But I agree that if Trayvon had just walked away and/or went home, he would be alive today. There is hard evidence that over time George Zimmerman reported 38 to 40 of these kinds of 'suspicious persons, black, white, and hispanic,' and in zero cases, until now, was there any kind of altercation or evidence that Zimmerman was threatening or combative in any way.
But we all know that if Martin had been white, this would have gone to a grand jury as it should have. The grand jury almost certainly would have determined self defense and that would have been the end of it. The ONLY reason the grand jury was bypassed and there was a high profile, highly publicized trial was because Martin was black and they wanted Zimmerman to be white. And if that does not keep fanning the fires of racism, I don't know what would.
It makes me sick when I read of property being vandalized or destroyed and people being assaulted and beat up all over the country because a jury returned a credible 'not guilty' verdict. And that we have citizens demanding a pound of flesh and they don't CARE whether somebody is or is not guilty.
There is no justice anymore.
DD explained on the Piers Mrgan interview last night that Travon did not want to go home because Zimmerman might have followed him. DD even thought he may have been a rapist [looking for some nookie, my comment.]
Remember when Zimmerman would not give his address because someone might hear it?
Well there was nothing in DD's original account of that conversation that suggested Trayvon was afraid to go home. She repeatedly last night said that he just wanted to go home. She was convinced Zimmerman assaulted Trayvon and not the other way around.
And where is there ANY evidence from ANYBODY that Zimmerman was not waiting for the police as he said he was doing on the recorded phone conversation with the dispatcher? Of course he didn't want to give out his address on the phone when he had no idea where Trayvon was and not knowing whether he was within earshot.
The fact in evidence is that Trayvon had four long minues to run or walk away. Four minutes. Just sit at your desk and do nothing for four minutes other than imagine how far somebody could go in four minutes at a normal walk, let alone if you were 'hurrying because you were afraid."
There is zero evidence that Zimmerman ever took another step after or toward Martin once the dispatcher told him that they didn't need him to follow Trayvon. There was irrefutable evidence that Trayvon was on top of Zimmerman when the shot was fired.
Without ANY evidence to convict on assault or aggravated assault or homicide or murder, the jury returned the only verdict they ethically could return.
What happened for sure that night? None of us know. But wanting Zimmerman to be guilty of murder is simply not sufficient to convict somebody of murder.
That's the whole trouble with this case. There was no credible evidence from anyone.
Nobody believed the ghetto girl.. At least the jury did not because they did not understand her.
Zimmerman would never tell a lie.
I did say that martin was afraid to go home because the creepy cracka was following him and he did not want zimmerman to know where he lived. Martin was protecting his family from a creep in his mind.
17 year old kid against a 29 year old with a locked and loaded gun. What a stretch.
I can never accept that for as long as I live.
Some day maybe the truth will surface.
The jury ws very impressed with the defense cartoon, though.