Posted on 05/16/2012 2:07:07 PM PDT by Bobbys1963
Race riots to follow in all cities dominated by liberals.
“Oh wait wasn’t Trayvon BHO’s son.”
Why, yes he was. Trayvon was an SOB (son of barack).
Sorry but to me that means "quit following the guy."
Zimmerman had no authority to confront anyone IMO. Even if he was witnessing a theft, his job was to call the police, observe license numbers, descriptions etc but never to intentionally confront. He had no training for anything like that. And that is essentially why he is sitting where he is today. And unfortunately, a young guy is dead.
“I still ask how Zimmerman got from his car where he was perfectly safe, to the street where he got beat up and Martin got shot? “
Even if true, stupidity is not a crime, nor does it vitiate self-defense
Is a drunk woman wearing a slutty dress walking in an alley at 2:30am not entitled to shoot her rapist?
This case ceased being about the evidence during media circus. Now it's primarily about skin color and retribution. This may get real ugly!
Check out the moron on the video, saying Zimmerman went to the wrong doctor.
Dispatchers don’t give lawful orders.
Thank you for that excellent, well-reasoned reply.
Wrong. George had already exited his vehicle when the dispatcher told him not to follow Martin.
News to me that Zimmerman was in his car when told not to follow Martin. All indications were that he was on foot, said ok to the request not to follow, and was on a path to return to his vehicle to meet with the Police.
Am I wrong?
Since the prosecution does not have physical evidence to support the charges she has made, she must be going for proving Zimmerman started the fight. Zimmerman’s supporters say he has witnesses to support his story. I don’t know that anyone saw the fight begin.
“Can any lawyers out there either confirm or refute my strong suspicion that we’re seeing the rapid unraveling of the State’s case and that it’s likely that we’ll see the charges dropped....sooner rather than later?”
I’m no lawyer, but I remember a Levin talk with another attorney.
They agreed the Florida Special Prosecutor was under political pressure to charge, even though police and the local prosecutor declined.
So she charged, and has submitted the evidence, evidence which doesn’t support 2nd degree murder.
But even if the 2nd degree murder doesn’t hold up, the political pressure remains.
The professional negro agitators and community organizers won’t let it rest.
At some point in the future, Zimmerman is like OJ, beats the criminal case, but faces civil damage charges.
“I still ask how Zimmerman got from his car where he was perfectly safe, to the street where he got beat up and Martin got shot?”
I think I heard he was looking to see what street he was on, or something. It wouldn’t matter, anyway. Getting out of your car is not to forfeit your right to self-defense. It would have to be demonstrated that he got out of his car and proceeded to confront Martin in such a way as to force Martin into defending himself with violence.
The medical evidence doesn’t suggest that was the case, but it’s still possible. Still, if Zimmerman started the fight the prosecution has to prove it. The fact that he got out of his truck does no such thing.
“Zimmerman was told not to follow Martin by the dispatcher when he called the police, and he was in his car then.”
He wasn’t exactly told not to, they just said they don’t need him to. Even if he was talking to the police, I don’t believe they’re empowered, away from the scene like that, to lawfully order him not to follow, as following is not illegal. That being said, do we know he was still following Martin after the supposed quasi-police quasi-order? We know there was a confrontation and a fight afterwards, but do we know that even if the fight wouldn’t have happened had Zimmerman stayed in his vehicle that Zimmerman got out of his vehicle to track Martin? So far as I know, that has not been established.
So at best we don’t know whether Zimmerman disobeyed the dispatcher. It’s very possible that he got out to read a street sign, or whatever he said, and that Martin, of his own violition, deliberately came upon him. But let’s say it was the opposite, and Zimmerman got out of his car in order to start a fist fight with Martin, in the hopes that he’d be able to use his gun on him. Again, the prosecution has to prove it, and again, Zimmerman getting out of the truck does no such thing.
Its funny because the FBI invented profiling. It works!!
You are correct. It was during Zimmerman’s return path to his truck when Martin jumped Zimmerman and began his assault. Zimmerman was retreating when Martin attacked.
Proof that even FReepers can blow the facts in this case. I see at least two incorrect things right there.
Jewbacca for the win.
I heard Crump already say that Martin’s knuckles were bruised from bravely trying to disarm a crazed Zimmerman.
Yes, the prosecution will claim that Zimmerman said something and then flashed the pistol. Martin feared for his life and tried to take the pistol away from Zimmerman, fighting for several minutes knowing that his life was in jeopardy, but lost to the larger, white man.
Bull.
Zimmerman was told that he didn’t need to do that.
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