No, I am not treating Martin with the presumption of guilt. Your whole analysis relies upon questioning Zimmerman's character. I don't know if that approach will fly in court, but if it does do you think Martin's character will be off the table?
martin's completely non-violent past will be on the table along with zimmerboy's violence-riddled past.
but my analysis is not reliant upon zimm's character alone. his actions that night are sufficient, his history of violence and getting himself involved is just icing on the cake.
Zimmerman claims that he saw a suspicious character who he thought was casing houses for a burglary. The neighborhood was plagued by burglaries, hence Zimmerman's suspicions were reasonable. Martin, a few months before, had a back pack with ten women's rings and a screw driver in it.
and zimmerman was supposed to know this how?
Zimmerman called the SFD non-emergency line to report his suspicions and stayed on the line during the whole incident.
until the part where he went off looking for martin so that he could detain him.
Zimmer voluntarily gave a statement to the police after the incident that explained what happened. Those are not the actions of a man who murdered someone.
except that many murderers who fancied themselves good liars have fucked themselves this exact way.
Martin's knuckles were skinned up...
listen to the interrogation. serino clearly lets on that martin's one little imperfection does not exactly correspond with zimmerman's tall tale that he was punched approximately 25-30 times.
really dude, you need to familiarize youself with the evidence in this case, until then you are making yourself look like a jackass.
Martin was seen by witnesses pounding on Zimmer. All of these facts are corroborated by the physical evidence and by Zimmer's statement to the police immediately after the incident.
we don't know if this was martin defending himself or not. we do know the injuries appear completely non-life threatening.
...loaded words such as "profiled".
that's because zimm profiled martin. umm, duh?
It looks like this prosecution is being carried out simply to assuage moral outrage and to prevent civil unrest, i.e, it is simply politically motivated.
then explain why serino wanted manslaughter BEFORE this was ever a news story.
anyone who tries to say this is "politically motivated" is displaying, in the most subtle and coded of ways, their acceptance of bigotry.
Personally, I am not willing to lynch an innocent man...
see what i just said above. talk about loaded words.
simply because a bunch of gun-o-phobes don't like the SYG laws, or because they think its time for some retribution for the black man.
and there it is. we all just hate guns or have white guilt.
thanks for exposing your bigotry. calling this case "politically motivated" is too subtle, you just had to come on out and say that you basicaly just don't like black people all that much and feel that they get some kind of special rights when that is anything but the case here.
Neither you, nor anybody else, has the right to assault somebody and attempt to beat them to death with impunity.
and there you go treating martin with the presumption of guilt again.
you do not know that an assault was occurring. there is every reason (and more) to believe that martin was defending himself from a vigilante with a gun who was trying to detain him for no reason.
but in your mind, that scenario is impossible, because you are a bigot who just assumes that martin must have been an angry, violent black guy, despite his complete and utter lack of violence in his his past.
You and several others on this thread are trotting out allegations that are even flimsier than Corey's. Stuff that is easily explainable, like the "smothering" thing and pretending like it somehow shows Zimmer's guilt. Martin clamped his hand over Zimmer's mouth either to smother Zimmer, or, more likely, just to stop his screaming, Zimmer pushed Martin's hands away and moments later shot Martin dead.
that's just ONE of dozens of lies that zimmer told.
that you believe it is a reflection on your lack of intelligence.
I will be surprised if this ever goes to trial, a fair minded judge (maybe there is one) can't possibly look at the prosecution's case and conclude that it supports anything except simple self defense on Zimmer's part.
says the self righteous bigot.
Martin assaulted Zimmer, that seems beyond argument.
only to people who treat the black kid with the presumption of guilt.
i find it much more likely that martin was defending himself against a mentally unbalanced vigilante with a gun who was trying to detain him.
Zimmer feared for his life and shot Martin dead. Simple self defense, and justified under SYG in Florida.
self defense doesn't apply when you get out of your place of safety and chase a kid around with your gun, dumbass.
The only caveat I will offer is this: maybe the prosecution has some real evidence that refutes all of the simple facts of the case laid out above, and I will happily change my mind on this if there is any credible evidence that refutes all of the very compelling evidence cited above. I don't believe Corey has any such evidence, though, because if she did she would have taken it to a grand jury, and the affidavit of probable cause would have actually contained some probable cause.
you just exposed yourself as a bigot through and through with your self righteous douchebaggery laid out above.
fuck you.
