...and none of these facts have a thing to do with race. He shot someone, he should answer for that. Period. No more and no less because of race.
-Cameron On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 5:08 PM, PT <cft...@gmail.com> wrote: > * Kid was minding his own business. > * Kid was from out of town and had no idea who Zimmerman was. > * Zimmerman was on neighborhood watch, not on neighborhood > confront-anyone-suspicious-you-see > * He armed himself and went looking for a confrontation. > * He was not supposed to be armed while fulfilling his watch duties. > * Zimmerman was obviously pissed at the lack of results from the police > and he was going to make sure "this asshole didn't get away". The kid > was guilty in his eyes the moment he saw him. > * The 911 dispatcher told him not to confront the kid. He is not > required to obey the dispatcher and so confronted the kid anyway. > * The kid probably (rightly) feared for his life when Zimmerman > confronted him. > * Zimmerman ended up with a broken nose and the kid ended up dead. > * witnesses said the kid was yelling for help before the shot. Some > reported two shots, which means that a potential second shot completely > missed and hit something else. > * Some have claimed that Zimmerman fancied himself a > vigilante/unofficial cop, but that is here-say. If true, he likely has > buddies on the force which could explain the lack of police interest. > > I am sorry, but the moment you initiate a confrontation, you lose the > right to claim you were standing your ground. He could have really been > defending himself, but he put himself in that situation. > > At the very least, he needs to be arrested and charged with > manslaughter, reckless endangerment, whatever using a firearm in a > residential area law they have and assault with a deadly weapon. Maybe > even bump that manslaughter up to a murder since Zimmerman armed himself > with the expectation that he might have to shoot someone. So, a little > bit of premeditation there. > > People have gone to prison for a long time for less. .... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:348913 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
