Oh, but we can't SAY that! We can't be honest about who Trayvon Martin really was. That doesn't jibe with the narrative that the main stream media pumped out to make this into a sensational case in the first place. Nah, we're supposed to look at the OLD pictures of Trayvon that make him look like a choir boy and pretend that he didn't have issues!
And WHY are we doing that? Because George Zimmerman defended himself with a (gasp!) handgun and that makes him a symbol that needs to be hammered by liberals because people who defend themselves with guns are EVIL!
You are the one who is not being honest about who and what Trayvon Martin really was. He was a fairly average 17 year old teenager, in reality. Not a punk. Not a thug. Not a juvenile delinquent. My brother spent a lot of time in JDH instead of going to high school. He was expelled from at least 2 high schools. Expelled. Not just suspended, expelled. Being suspended is very minor. Yet he was not some monster or thug that deserved to be murdered because he was out alone at night. Thank God in those days we didn't have a lot of vigilantes out packing guns and wanting to kill punks. Hed never have made it to adulthood. Bad boys who hang out on street corners smoking (cigs or pot) and sometimes commit petty crime: they all deserve to die, dont they?
So the "average" 17 year old gets suspended for drug possession and stealing other people's stuff? You must have some wonderful kids where you are, Esmerelda!
All I've pointed out is that George Zimmerman's reason for calling the Police was that he thought Trayvon Martin was acting suspiciously in a neighborhood in which there had been a rash of burglaries. You'd better believe that if the Police had run Martin's information that night that THEY would have wanted to know what he was doing. Martin had a "history". It's what you get when you do things like bring drugs to school and steal other people's property.