Zimmerman not guilty!!!

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Originally Posted by Titus2woman

I think this ever being brought to the level of a crime was always about race. It was about people like Al Shapton and others who want to stay in the spotlight asking people to march or riot and demand this man be arrested.

It's about appointing 'special' prosecutors when the current elected DA does not believe a crime was committed and when the local police do not believe that a crime was committed.... It's about posting pictures of TM as a 12 year old all over the media rather than showing the strong, ripped young man he was. It's about referring to TM as 'baby' and 'angel' when in fact he was an up and coming thug with pics all over social media sites of him smoking dope and shooting the bird.. It's about a media trial rather than a trial in a court of law with rules of evidence and rules of law. It's about refusing to accept the verdict of a jury.

I do think it is tragic that a kid, who given enough time might have turned his life around, will never get that chance... This is hard for me to see as a person because a couple of my own kids went through similar stages and are now productive men... Admittting that if one of them had ever been the ones beating some guys head on the sidewalk and that guys best defense had been with a gun then they would not have gotten that chance...well... it's a wake up call. But being that guy does not make GZ a criminal, let alone a murderer. To say he deserved for TM to attack him because he was doing his Neighborhood Watch job is wrong.

IMO.There is no reason that someone with the lawful right to carry should have to die with their gun still in the holster from a beating... and I believe it could have easily gone the other way. GZ might have been a yahoo... or maybe not but I don't see how it is wrong that he was acquitted, all evidence suggested a straightforward self-defense scenario. Nothing contradicted that. The jury had to find in favor of the defense. Had they done otherwise, it would have been an incredible miscarriage of justice. "Beyond a reasonable doubt" means something in our system of justice. And if ever reasonable doubt existed, it was in this case.

How you can see that as GZ getting away with murder is beyond me Barb.... and BTW, I like you too.

Great post. GZ had a right to carry and was being beaten. TM did have a weapon... His fists/hands and the cement.