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Originally Posted by Ben E Lou
Ding Ding Ding.
At this point, if I had to guess how it went down, I'd say that the most likely course of events is that Zimmerman follows Martin, Martin notices the guy following him, is pissed about being followed, and an altercation ensues. (I'm not willing to speculate on who threw the first punch. We're never going to hear more than one side of that story.) Martin is winning the fight. Zimmerman kills him. There's never a fight if Zimmerman doesn't follow Martin, making him probably guilty of being a wannabe cop who should have let the real cops get there and deal with Martin, maybe guilty of racial profiling, probably guilty of being a generally creepy loser, but probably not legally guilty of murder because of this law. Yeah, my best guess is that if Zimmerman doesn't play cop, Martin gets back to the house before the real cops arrive and watches the 2nd half of the All-Star game.
In short, I'm starting to think that Zimmerman is "responsible" for Martin's death, but probably not criminally guilty. And if that truly is the case, I very much doubt that the masses will be able to separate themselves from their emotions enough to understand the difference between the two.
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I sort of feel like if you kill another unarmed human being, you should have to show some proof that it was necessary. If someone's wife is dead on the kitchen floor and the husband is standing there with a gun, he's got to say more than "she hit me" to get off. Zimmerman did not go to a hospital and so far they have not released any photos of his grave injuries. If he was being beaten by someone half his size that badly, the injuries should be apparent.
It brings up another question though. What should we be now teaching kids to do when confronted by adult strangers who are stalking them? The old thinking was to run, kick, scream, and fight as much as you could. We had cops come to our school and tell kids this. But it appears now that we should be telling kids to be obedient if an adult male stalks them. This case says clearly that you should not fight back at all.