OhIsee.Then
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Re: Family of Florida teen killed by neighborhood watch volunteer feel 'betrayed' by
If Treyvon allowed Zimmerman to catch him and Zimmerman maintained his expressed attitude, and insisted on a response and laid a hand on Treyvon to get his point across to the kid, Zimmerman started a fight. If Treyvon won the fight and Zimmerman had fallen to the ground on his back with his head injured and Treyvon stopped beating him up, that should have ended it. If Zimmerman then pulled his gun and shot Treyvon to me its Capital Murder. But, with the SYGL I don’t think so....
Over all, I think I'd still have to say that this is a tragic case of Zimmerman taking a course that was fueled by adrenaline, over confidence due to carrying a gun, maybe misinterpretation of what his duties of NW were, and what the meaning of meet force with EQUAL force means.
Zimmerman pursued this young man, hunted him down, got into a fight, and was losing that fight and used his gun to gain advantage killing Treyvon. That is what we know. And based on that, Zimmerman is in the wrong here. Now it isn't in my mind murder, but it is negligent homicide.
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