Shooting of Trayvon Martin - Page 48

On April 21 2012 05:45 BlackJack wrote:
The court of public opinion is slowly changing in Zimmerman's favor and the race-baiters have nobody to blame but themselves. Everyone was on their side until everyone realized how badly they've tried to manipulate the facts to turn this into a race war and to crucify Zimmerman. There was so much bullshit that they tried to spread that it wasn't until weeks into these Trayvon threads that people were able to dispel most of the misconceptions. Moral of the story: Don't try to mislead people if you don't want them turning their back on you once they realize you've been misleading them.

On April 21 2012 06:24 Freddybear wrote:
The Prosecutor's Bad Day At Court

It's hard to pick the lowest of the low, but the darker moments for the prosecution included:

- The admission by co-lead investigator that he had not personally interviewed George Zimmerman;

- the admission that he had not requested Zimmerman's medical records from the hospital;

- the admission that the state has no evidence to contradict Zimmerman's claim that, following the advice of the police dispatcher, he headed back to his car;

- the admission that the state has no evidence to contradict Zimmerman's claim that Martin assaulted first.

- the admission that the investigtors have not been "given any insight" by the voice experts at the Orlando Sentinel and the FBI who attempted to identify the screams on the 911 tape...

On April 21 2012 06:14 liberal wrote:
Wow, I haven't seen that picture yet o.O

I want to thank you for doing such a great job with this thread dAPhREak. Good example of how to maintain threads on TL. You are doing a better job of covering this than much of the media, and they are getting paid to do it.

On April 21 2012 06:45 valaki wrote:
My point of view (totally based just on my opinion, from what I've seen / read / heard so far) : So this semi-thug young adult (sorry, but he's not the clean A student the media portrayed him to be) was at a neighborhood when this other guy (with some shady things in his past too) who's duty was to watch the said neighborhood approached him because it was night time and this guy wore a hoodie, and not to mention, he was over 6ft tall, so people need to cut this "child" crap. To be perfectly honest, he would've been suspicious to me too, and not because he was black. But it seem's like Zimmerman was overly cautious and wasn't only followed the guy, but called the police too.
Okay from here, I've read several different scenarios, but in the end Zimmerman got to the ground and got injured moderately, some say, because Trayvon picked a fight with him because he was following him. He (Z) was clearly losing because in the recordings he called for help.
Now the question is, could he have felt, that his life is in danger? Maybe. Maybe he overreacted badly. That's the court's job to decide.

In my opinion even if he goes to jail, it shouldn't be more than 1-2 years. But the whole case has nothing to do with race, but some people would actually kill each other because of this...scary.

On April 21 2012 08:31 Holytornados wrote:


I still think that if there is a person wandering around late at night in a hoodie is suspicious.

I would not have pursued this person, but would have perhaps notified the police.

On April 21 2012 08:21 RJGooner wrote:


28-year neighborhood watchman follows around people armed with a gun. Gets "we don't need you to follow him" by a police dispatcher and then continues to do so. I don't know who instigated first, but all we know now is that Trayvon is dead.

The whole premise of the situation is ridiculous. Neighborhood watchmen should NOT be following people around armed with guns. I hate it when people who say "well you would have fired your gun in that situation too" no I wouldn't be following around suspicious people with a gun in the first place.

On April 21 2012 08:35 RJGooner wrote:


Which he did, and then he was told not to follow him. And it wasn't late at night.

On April 21 2012 08:45 1Eris1 wrote:


I agree the pursuit was wrong, but what was he supposed to do after that? Let the guy beat him into the ground?

Give him a stalking charge or something, but this whole thing has just grown way out of control.

On April 21 2012 03:52 Assault_1 wrote:

didn't change my mind, it was obvious since the beginning zimmerman did the right thing

On April 21 2012 08:57 Felnarion wrote:
If Zimmerman was being attacked and punched Trayvon once in the face, killing him. Would you feel the same way about it? Would he be a horrible person?

On April 21 2012 09:01 HellRoxYa wrote:


No. Because a punch is not equal to the force of a gunshot. Indeed, a punch would have been a proportional response to escape the (alleged) situation he was in. Adding to this: There is no reason to think Zimmerman would have ment to kill with a punch, unlike a gunshot.