I want to point out to that Zimmerman comes from a well connected family.
We do not know that his family was well-connected. His father was what is called a magistrate judge in VA, which until very recently required *only *a high school diploma, no college, no law school. It was not the position of a regular judge at a trial or something–it was the man to whom the police first took someone who was arrested.
And we certainly do not know that the family was well-connected in Florida, a place which is hundreds of miles from VA.
Moreover, apparently Zimmerman was very involved in the protesting of not arresting the police officer’s son who beat a homeless man which resulted in the investigation of several police officers for their handling of that case, so if there is any bias at the police end, one might think it would be more likely to be negative rather than positive.
If what he’s saying is true that Trevyon was on top of him, wouldn’t his shirt be filled with blood?
That is a good question which we do not have any evidence about one way of the other.
Why didn’t the police interview the guy’s girlfriend she apparently wanted to be interviewed. Some talk is no autopsy was done on the body.
Who knows, and there was an autopsy performed on Trayvon Martin’s body. The coroner made some public statements about it, how Martin did not have any cuts or bruises.
For me at the very least, in SYG, you shoot someone in public, you should be arrested, you can then present your evidence of being guilty, but this guy should have been arrested immediately.
No, police do not arrest people just because something has occurred–they have to have probable cause; that is our Constitutional right as a protection against unwarranted arrests.
As for think of the innocent people who are alive because they carried a gun. Think of the innocent people would be alive if people weren’t able to carry. There’s a case coming up where an older guy got in an argument with a young white guy about kids skate boarding. According to witnesses the guy showed the younger guy his gun. So the younger guy lunched at him. The younger guy was killed. Guess what, if the older guy didn’t have a gun, the younger guy’d still be alive today.
Isn’t that man being prosecuted? There are many cases where having a gun has saved someone’s life, like the girl whose home was invaded the day after her husband’s funeral. It cuts both ways…
And according to his history most of the people Zimmerman would report on would be black. And once again, a kid talking on his cell phone in the rain… Is that really the most susicipious behavior ever…If the kid was dressed as a white preppy do you really think Zimmerman would have called it suspicious.
We actually *don’t know *why Zimmerman thought Martin’s behavior was suspicious, but since this was a racially mixed neighborhood, I doubt he would call willy-nilly
Our country has quite a huge crime rate, that other nations Canada, Europe don’t have. They have stricter gun laws.
Don’t even go here…
And given Zimmerman’s own violent past (didn’t he have a misdemeanor that could have easily been a felony and perhaps would have been for a lesser folk) he’s not someone who should be allowed to carry.
What’s “a lesser folk”? Yes, he was charged with something and the charges were dismissed. Usually the fact that charges are dismissed means that there is insufficient evidence to convict, and sometimes, wow!, the reason there is insufficient evidence is that the person isn’t the one who did it, or the person didn’t do what he was charged with. In this case, we do not know what happened in that incident.
