"Cracker" when used between blacks is a 1 and "coons" is a 99 on a scale of 1 to 100.
GZ said "coons." There are just few people with enough patience and spine to carry through with the obvious.
If GZ said "coons", why did the prosecutor say he said "punks"? The prosecutor was desperate to find something to prove that GZ was racist. He couldn't do it.
BREAKING: Zimmerman Prosecution Opens with "******* Punks"
TM did use a racial epithet. GZ did not. GZ said TM was acting like he was on drugs or something, and guess what -- TM was on drugs. When GZ saw TM acting suspiciously, GZ was on alert and was frustrated because that neighborhood had been the target of a number of burglaries, but even in his frustration he didn't utter anything which the prosecution could use to make him look bad.