Sigh...I really don't think that Anything was "proven" in that case...other than defense attny. O'Mara being effective in raising jurors' fears and biases .
..I watched the entire trial...and frankly, found that the way Treyvon's friend (who heard him say "get off me"before the phone died) and the heavily accented forensic examiners were treated ...highly prejudicial. Most of the time it felt like Martin was on trial rather than Zimmerman.
What IS actually naive is Depending on a fictitious video, O'mara's dramatics, and speculating "who started it", " who was on top" at any given moment and the perp's own account ...as justifications for the verdict.
By the bye...us libs did not raise this issue...I for one am simply responding to the sad effort to present Kobe's opinion as somehow cementing the validity of that verdict...Which at least one of the jurors regrets.
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With all due respect, Doc...Zimmerman got the living tar beat out of him by your "child"...Trayvon Martin is dead today because he decided that violence was the proper response to someone challenging his right to be walking through that neighborhood. All he needed to do was tell George Zimmerman who he was and who he was visiting. Zimmerman was following Martin that night because Zimmerman didn't think the teenager belonged where he was. The real tragedy is someone lost their life because they chose to use their fists rather than simply talk to the person they were having an issue with. THAT is the lesson that should be learned from what happened that night!
Well...first of all Z never challenged Trayvon....never even spoke to him until Trayvon accosted him.
But you are correct in that it was Trayvon who chose violence and thus reaped his just reward.
Trayvon was not 'visiting' anyone in that complex,supposedly he just cut through there on his way home, though it was a dark and rainy night and he was lingering there for some reason. The time line brought out in the trial proved that trayvon had more than enough time to have been home before the incident happend....so he was lollygagging about on a dark and rainy night---why???? There are several possibilities...though it will never be known for sure. One very likely reason being that he was casing the neighborhood for a burglary. He had been previously caught with a burglary tool and in possession of stolen property and that neighborhood had been plagued by break-ins.
It is very clear that Trayvon for whatever reason decided to attack Zimmerman. Initially he ran away....Z even reported to the dispatcher that the suspect was running...the dispatcher asked Z which direction the suspect was headed....that was when George got out of his truck to see which way Trayvon was going.
Trayvon eluded George and George had no idea where he was but thought he had left the area. That was the point where the dispatcher could hear wind in the phone and asked George if he was following the suspect. George replied in the affirmative and the dispatchers exact words were "we do not need you to do that" George replied o.k. However, George wanted to give the police who had been summoned and were on the way an exact address so they could easily find him, thus he walked a little way further to be able to see a street address. This is where so many liberals want to confuse the story. They claim Z continued to follow Trayvon even after the dispatcher suggested he should not do that.
How could he follow someone he could not see and had no idea where he was. George thought trayvon had run away and the thing was over. All George wanted at that point was to get a exact address and meet with the police.
My word...what a penchant for fiction u have...Treyvon was on his way HOME to his dad's house in that complex with a bag of skittles for his cuz who was staying there...He had no weapon or tool of any kind on his person..and no record of burglary or any other crime.
Actually it was only Zimmerman that had an arrest record...for assault on both an ex and a cop.
U have no evidence other than Z's own self serving account that Martin attacked him...it is actually more likely that Z attacked Martin, based on what Martin's GF heard on her cell before it went dead...
So - ur account has no credibility..,but it DOES demonstrate imagination and artistic license...maybe u should join Z's cohorts (some if whom testified for him) in writing a fictional novel about this tragic incident.
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