- Banned
- #21
It is simple. He took someone's life and anyone who does that should go to court and have their evidence presented to a judge or jury and not have it decided by street cops. This is not like dropping a speeding ticket, or letting someone off with a warning. Someone lost their life, and he should have to present his evidence in court to explain why his shooting was justified in accordance with the law. It is the fact that it was dismissed before ever getting near a courtroom that shows there was some sort of bullshit going on behind the scenes. Cops are not judge and jury and have no business making decisions on who to prosecute or not. Any prosecutor who decides to not even arraign a guy for a serious crime as murder needs to have his employment terminated. Sending someone to trial in regards to a crime is not a conviction. hell, he was not even charged with a crime despite clearly admitting to the shooting. It is for the courts to decide guilty or innocent and not the cops, or the public.
Sending him to trial where he could present his evidence to a judge and jury and defend himself against the charges in court with a lawyer and not with the PR representative he had before the charges was the right thing to do the whole time. It is clear his defense held back evidence from the community to be presented in trial, and now he is presenting his whole side in court where it should have been the whole time. The problem here is not really even zimmerman, it is the decision of the police department to show favoritism towards zimmerman by never even arraigning him for murder despite him having killed another person. There also should be a lot of outrage at a law that allows you to use deadly force in a confrontation you instigated without having attempted to retreat. Still, if zimmerman is innocent due to a law on the books it is not his fault because he obeyed the law. If they do not like the law then florida voters should make sure the law is changed. Zimmerman should still have to justify his killing to an impartial court, and not to a bunch of cops and whoever else happened to be hanging out at the police station that evening. There is clearly something wrong at the Sanford police department that needs to be fixed. There appears to be something very wrong with florida's gun laws regarding how people are allowed to use them. Whether or not zimmerman acted improperly is now being decided by the place that should have decided it to begin with.
Sending him to trial where he could present his evidence to a judge and jury and defend himself against the charges in court with a lawyer and not with the PR representative he had before the charges was the right thing to do the whole time. It is clear his defense held back evidence from the community to be presented in trial, and now he is presenting his whole side in court where it should have been the whole time. The problem here is not really even zimmerman, it is the decision of the police department to show favoritism towards zimmerman by never even arraigning him for murder despite him having killed another person. There also should be a lot of outrage at a law that allows you to use deadly force in a confrontation you instigated without having attempted to retreat. Still, if zimmerman is innocent due to a law on the books it is not his fault because he obeyed the law. If they do not like the law then florida voters should make sure the law is changed. Zimmerman should still have to justify his killing to an impartial court, and not to a bunch of cops and whoever else happened to be hanging out at the police station that evening. There is clearly something wrong at the Sanford police department that needs to be fixed. There appears to be something very wrong with florida's gun laws regarding how people are allowed to use them. Whether or not zimmerman acted improperly is now being decided by the place that should have decided it to begin with.