Martin was a 6' 160lb 17yr old. Zimmerman is 5'7" 185ish. I don't know how many of you played sports with any one of Trayvon's build and race, but I've seen some damn strong 6' 160lb black kids(this isn't meant to be racist at all, btw).
If Zimmerman truly wanted to kill Trayvon (as the prosecution said), why did he call the police in the first place? Why didn't he just run him down and shoot him?
Bingo. I don't think that the operator's "commands" are legally binding. And I'm more apt to believe someone who calls the police to report a suspicious person and says that the guy was watching him and walking towards him and that he took off running versus some hood-rat chick who can't put a sentence together and has been caught lying under oath mulitiple times.
Should Zimmerman have "pursued" Trayvon, probably not. Should he have kept his distance and watched him? I would say absolutely. If Zimmerman wanted to just kill Martin, he would have never called the police in the first place.
Last edited by quackaddict; 06-28-2013 at 09:53 AM.
Man and other animals were first vegetarians; then Noah and his sons were given permission to eat meat: “every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you” Genesis 9:3
"A man may not care for golf and still be human, but the man who does not like to see, hunt, photograph or otherwise outwit birds or animals is hardly normal. He is supercivilized, and I for one do not know how to deal with him." Aldo Leopold
Bookmarks