Posted on 05/21/2012 9:58:35 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Actually, that's a bit backwards. Zimmerman is charged with second degree murder. According to the legal analysis I have read and the Florida laws, the prosecution is expected to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that George Zimmerman acted with a "depraved mind" when he shot Trayvon Martin, that Zimmerman acted with ill will, hatred or spite. With only one living witness to the start of the fight, that is almost certainly impossible. This story should die or be used as an example to discourage criminal behavior, but a trial is absurd.
More than a few freepers swear that Martin jumped, attacked, assaulted, sucker-punched Zimmerman. I'm just asking them to back up their statement of "fact" with proof. So far nobody has.
Absolute proof? No. Supporting evidence? Lots of it. The statement by Zimmerman (the only living witness to the start of the fight) is exactly that. All the forensic evidence is consistent with Zimmerman's statement. The photographs and medical reports support the claim that Zimmerman was injured in a manner consistent with that conclusion. There is no known evidence of any contradictions between Zimmerman's statement and the remaining evidence. For Zimmerman to have invented a story that matches all the physical evidence strikes me as far less likely than that Zimmerman told the whole truth.
The bottom line: Occam's Razor never gets dull, and in this case it points to a conclusion that you find insufficiently supported, one that the rest of us find strongly if incompletely supported. Discussion that version as "fact" is simply easier than discussing it with all the caveats you might prefer. Still, if a video came out showing Zimmerman to have initiated the attack, I suspect 99% or more of Freepers would immediately accept that evidence, so I consider FR an open-minded group.
If you have proof of what happened then please post it.
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Easier but not honest --- and the only "caveat" I prefer is that pesky little thing called proof.
“I consider that totally disrespectful for anyone to slander anyone elses name when theyre no longer breathing to defend themselves. I believe its a cowardly and disrespectful move.”
Any attempt to tell the truth about Martin is called slander. He was described as a “model student” by the media. In truth he was a thug who rarely attended class and who had been frequently suspended from school. Not just for drugs either.
Martin wasn’t minding his own business. He attacked Zimmerman.
Zimmerman is the one who has been slandered.
I think that’s true. Nevertheless I believe it is the drug that the ‘technicals’ in Somalia would chew to get all hopped up before going out and massacring people.
Now, I’m not saying that there aren’t gangbangers who drive around LA, etc., tokin a blunt before they do something very violent and deadly. Mixing it with alcohol can increase the effect of both. Some treat it with formaldahyde creating a street drug known as “wet.” But I maintain that in this country the street drug most likely to provoke a rampate is good old crystal meth. Followed closely by crack. AGAIN - that doesn’t mean they aren’t smoking pot with that. It kind of goes with everything, like ketchup.
I like it when the cops call some trash like Trayvon “gentleman”.
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