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Originally Posted by Desnudo
Yep. If a white kid had been jumped by him, it would have been a plea bargain because he's guilty. Black guy, guilty of being black, mostly white women which is worse. How is an unarmed man that ends up shot somehow guilty in all this. Which is effectively what people are saying if he gets off.
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Martin isn't guilty of anything. But in Florida, you have a right to use deadly force to defend yourself against a beatdown via fist. If that's what the jury decided happened, then they should acquit him. The big disconnect here is between moral and legal judgments. Zimmerman was morally wrong, but legally in the right, if things went down as he argues they did (and the state really has zero evidence that things went down differently, let alone enough to meet a beyond a reasonable doubt standard.). A Zimmerman acquittal wouldn't mean that Martin is somehow "guilty", or even morally in the wrong.