There should be no charge whatsoever?
With the facts that I have before me...no Zimmerman should not be charged. Do we have all the facts? I don't know, but i'm inclined to say no. It is quite obvious to me that both Martin and Zimmerman were doing nothing illegal until the very moment that the fight broke out. So my only question in all this is "who threw the first punch"? The only evidence that we have in front of us says it was Martin. Combined with the gashes on the back of Zimmermans head and I can see a serious case of self defense.
It's unbelievable this kind of comment still pops up every now and then everywhere. People like these are devoid of any sense of justice whatsoever.
You are claiming that justice is needed for Trayvon...but what about justice for Zimmerman? Justice is a two sided sword ya know. If Zimmerman gets convicted of something which he should have been innocent of (or at least not guilty) is that really justice? Or is it revenge? Just because someone dies in a shooting does not mean that we should automatically throw the shooter in prison.
No matter how much info that have come out about Zimmerman and this case in which the judge had already said he saw probable cause, some people still couldn't wait for the trial and want to insist on holding to their cause of defending Zimmerman at all cost based solely on his claim no matter how unrealistic his story sound.
The prosecution is trying to use profiling to prove that somehow Zimmerman maliciously killed Martin. Can you name me one person that doesn't profile? If such a thing starts being used to convict every single person that killed in self defense then there is no self defense. There is just murder or the equivilent. The only profiling that should be illegal is that of racial profiling via cops.
It's boggles the mind that there are still people out there who still believe Zimmerman should just walk free even after killing someones' unarmed child walking to and from the store to the house while minding his own business.
First, being unarmed does not mean defenseless or that you cannot kill someone. Second, Zimmerman did not shoot Trayvon because he was walking. He shot him because he was afraid that Trayvon was going to kill him during a fight.
It is also very disturbing to hear such totalitarian attitude that one cannot and must not look at houses while walking down the street on the pain of death. What has our society now degenerated and spiral down into?
No one said that he cannot look at houses. A question was asked as to what else he could have been looking at besides houses. It was answered. Singeling this one thing out ignores the conversation and what evidence that we do have. Such as the recent rash of break in's in that area. Can you honestly say that you wouldn't find someone walking along looking at houses suspicious if the same thing happened in your neighborhood? Humans are suspicious by nature. When a rash of criminal activity is happening around them that just hightens their perceptions of what is suspicious and what is not. Even if they are wrong to be suspicious it is still understandable if they are.
The only way to get them see their warped sense of justice is to have this same tradgedy befell upon their sons, daughters or any of their loved ones. Until then they will steadfast refuse to understand that parents who lost their child, killed by a gunman while walking home with a candy and ice tea. would want some answer through our justice system.
I admit right here and now that if the same thing happened to me I could care less about justice. I would want revenge. I also hope right now that someone out there would argue the case like I have been so that reason would prevail and not revenge.
But, then again not. They are so into themselves with their deplorable moral state of discordance that they might just beg or insist the police chief and the DA not charge their son's or daughter's killer if the killer simply claimed self-defense. Yep, they would accept wholeheartedly without question the killer's account as fact and evidence their sons or daughters were up to no good and deserved the death. No need for charge, let alone trial. Let the killer just walk.
Like I just said, if this happened to me I could care less about justice. I would just want revenge. Justice and revenge are not the same thing. Justice is about logic. Revenge is about emotion.
Now, with all this said I quite willingly admit that I do not have all the facts. As such I can only argue this case based upon the facts I do have. And the facts that I have before me does not indicate that Zimmerman should be charged with a crime. Now if there are facts out there that prove me wrong then so be it. I will admit it and won't mind if Zimmerman goes to prison. But we won't know of any additional facts until the trial....much less what they are.
