kiaronna
Martin attacked first, regardless of how "creepy" Zimmerman might have appeared. Zimmerman initially claimed this, and there were eyewitnesses. Martin was the first to resort to violence. There is a law in Florida that specifically states that if someone attacks you, you have the right to self defense, and that includes shooting someone.
Did you read what you just said, or did crap just pop out of your mouth. They know zimmerman was staking the kid. he reported that himself, and the girlfriend says the kid noticed the creepy white guy following him. That is the start of the altercation right there. he was not a cop. He was not under any real authority to confront treyvon at all. the best he could do is follow treyvin and report his activities to the police who have the authority to approach and detain treyvon.
Instead what he did was when he felt the dispatcher was not taking him seriously he decided to confront treyvon on his own without any authority. i don't blame treyvon for being confrontational with the stupid white racist following him around. it was a bad choice that got him killed, but he had a right to defend himself against the guy stalking him. You do not have the right to go up and ******** with people because you do not like them in your neighborhood. Zimmerman had every opportunity to not be near enough to treyvon to be in imminent danger. HJe had a car, the kid was walking. he had a gun, the kid was unarmed. he followed him and confronted him when he ould have simply stayed back and waited for the police.
there was nothing self defense about any of this, and this is why a no retreat law is a failure that allows people to instigate a fight and have excuse for using deadly force in an altercation they made happen. Without that law they would have busted him right there because he never made an effort to get away, and made every effort to be in that situation. The kid was not invading his house. he did not walk up to the guy and start beating him.
kiaronna
Zimmerman apparently knew the law- and as a man on duty in neighborhood watch, who in their right mind would let a person that just attacked them continue to walk through their populated neighborhood?
Let us say that was the case. the kid beat the hell out of him then went wandering away into the neighborhood. Why go after him? This does not justify homicide. he is not given authority by the law to use deadly force to stop a bad guy for joining the neighborhood watch. You have a cell phone, you call the cops and possibly an ambulance if you need one. The cops would then go and find the kid and bust him for assault. Even if you did not want the kid to get away, you don't go back to him and shoot him. You are neighborhood watch, not neighborhood shoot first and hope that you can make a case for self defense.
You are right, he knew the law. he knew what to do. How do we even know he did not let the kid get a shot or two in on him so he could shoot him? he knew the law, and he had one of them evil coon kids in his neighborhood. he had a gun and wanted to send a message to the black people who would come around his neighborhood that if they did they would get shot. This was not the first time this guy did bullshit like this.
kiaronna
Martin himself certainly wasn't an angel. He had recently been suspended from school, and according to a family spokesperson, this was for possessing marijuana.
Drug possesion is not evidence of a violent personality. Also, there is no way for zimmerman to have known anything about that. the kid may have been dealing or using, but in any case zimmerman had no way of knowing that.
kiaronna
He had practically a row of golden teeth.
So it is a good idea to shoot people with gold teeth? OK, you are officially mentally retarded.
kiaronna
His Facebook page had indications of other violent acts he may have committed.
Information zimmerman could not have had at the time he was following the kid. For all he knew this kid was an angel with no problems. that is why he is a racist. it does not make him not a racist because he guessed right. He approached him based on nothing more than he was wearing a hoodie and was black. If the kid was buying and selling drugs and zimmerman knew about it where are the drugs? if the kid was threatening and assaulting other people, where are the complaints? Even if the kid was a drug lord kingpin who killed hundreds of people, you still are not in your rights to shoot him for buying iced tea and skittles. if you are really concerned the kid was an arch criminal like zimmerman tries to claim, you certainly do not walk up to him in broad daylight and shoot his a**. the police have rules, gangs do not. his story does not even add up in that way. Supposedly this was a deadly black evil druglord zimmerman was trying to stop on his ******** own. if you are really that afraid of the kid, why would you even go up to him and give him the chance to kill you.
kiaronna
Zimmerman, on the other hand, was a volunteering neighborhood watch captain.
one who was familiar to the police for going overboard.
kiaronna
Further, Zimmerman-despite some of the media's initial claims of white-on-black racism- isn't white.
if you are white and your last name is zimmerman no one gives a ******** you have some hispanic relatives somewhere in your tree. this is why zimmerman is always mentioned as being a white hispanic because without them saying he was hispanic no one would really make that connection. Oh, and for that matter you can still be racist and latino. Have you never heard hispanics talk about their own different nationalities?
kiaronna
If white people support him, they aren't being racist.
Don't forget dense, ignorant, stupid, ********, and fox news reporter.
kiaronna
They are not siding with their own race or claiming it to be superior. They are siding with a man who was attacked by another man who was taller and likely more fit, a man that was walking through a neighborhood that was not his own, a man with a questionable history.
Again that defense might work if zimmerman knew any of bad info about the kid. instead he got the idea the kid was bad because he was black and wearing a hoodie, and that is racist.
kiaronna
In my own opinion, standing back from the situation, Zimmerman should have just walked away.
if he truly felt something dangerous was going on he should have waited for the cop he called to have sent there to show up. Given he seemed to cry wolf a lot perhaps the police were not to keen on another waste of time. Still, he could have done his job as neighborhood watch by simply watching and not being neighborhood coon shooter.
kiaronna
He should have let the police take care of it. However, Zimmerman was understandably not feeling particularly tranquil. He had just had his head bashed in and the perpetrator was about to run free through the neighborhood Zimmerman was attempting to protect. In my eyes, and in the laws of Florida, the case doesn't go in Martin's favor- but Zimmerman still did something wrong.
Still not an excuse to kill someone. if he is running away you can then call the police and get to safety. your own ideas contradict even the imminent danger required for the stand your ground law. You have to be being attacked to be in danger and fear for your life. you are not fearing for your life because the attacked is going to get away from you. Really, i hope he ******** up and uses that story in court. it is not standing your ground when the person is getting away, it is vengenace. that is murder by your own racist account of what happened.
now i am happy your crawled out from under whatever racist rock your human scum lives under to give us all your stupid ******** point of view. now you have proven your racism and stupidity beyond any shadow of a doubt. thank you, and you can shut the ******** up now.