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Originally Posted by CC1
I think the correct verdict was reached. Prosecuting this case was a matter of appeasing the race card / civil rights folks.
I have no doubt that Zimmerman is a jerk and was obnoxiously over zealous in his running of the neighborhood watch. However not for one second have I ever believed he set out to shoot someone. I believe he confronted someone he thought was an intruder and a fight then ocurred during which he fired his gun in self defense.
I think it was inexcusable that the DA and media spend months portraying the murder victim as a 12 year old kid instead of the 17 year old young man he was. A young man involved with drugs, pics of guns, bad behavior in school,etc. That does not make him guilty of anything that night but does make it clear he was not an innocent 12 year old boy killed by a mean ole man. The totality of the information about the victim indicates he very well could have acted aggresively towards Zimmerman once Zimmerman confronted him and asked what he was doing there.
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CC!, I will not belabor this issue because this changes nothing, but it doesn't matter if Tray was a crack head...
He had every right to be there.
Though not an innocent little boy, he was a 17 year unarmed young man with a life.
GZ had a gun. He could have fired the gun over his head, or shot him in the arm or leg.
GZ could have called an ambulance rather than watch him die.
And he could show some remorse for a life taken.
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