The politics of hoodie wearing

Behave in what way? He wanted to walk to where he was staying with a bag of Skittles after he visited a convenience store? Then he had to defend himself when a wannabe fascist nazi nutjob who challenged him for the offense of 'walking while being black'?

The trouble of doing it yourself and answering your own question.

I suggest you go back and look at the testimony considering his call with his friend when Zimmerman came upon him.

You guys keep talking about the unlikelihood of Zimmerman's confronting Tryavon with the police on the way. I suggest you consider the unlikelihood of Trayvon confronting Zimmerman while he was on the phone with his perhaps-girlfriend, who had counseled him to AVOID a confrontation by running away,

counseled him to AVOID a confrontation by running away, which he did.

Zimmerman's failure to heed advice from the 911 operator (NOT dispacher, as some have said)

MontereyJack wrote:
counseled him to AVOID a confrontation by running away, which he did.
oralloy:He did, did he?

Do you have any evidence that he did?

You mean like when he tells the dispatcher that Trayvon is running away, and that he's following him? Yeah, that evidence. His own words.

It was much less than three minutes.

Zimmerman was far from his car, in the backyards of a residential block. There're no street signs there--he couldn't have been "looking for an address" as he claimed.

Trayvon's talking to his friend, and all of a sudden Zimmerman is there and confronts him, Trayvon: "Get off me".

What do you think Zimmerman was doing there? Going to the convenience store himself to get his own Arizona Iced Tea? Why else was he in those backyards?

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/16/us-usa-florida-shooting-omara-idUSBRE96F04R20130716

Kruidbos testified last month that he found embarrassing photos on Martin's phone that included pictures of a clump of jewelry on a bed, underage nude females, marijuana plants and a hand holding a semi-automatic pistol.

O'Mara said he intends to amend his request for sanctions against the prosecutors in light of testimony from the trial, calling prosecutors' failure to turn over data from Martin's phone records for months "an undeniable Brady violation."

Prosecutors handed over raw data from Martin's phone, but O'Mara accused them of withholding additional data that had been extracted by Kruidbos. Corey countered that the judge determined the defense was in possession.

O'Mara has quarreled with the p

What I've learned from all this is that if I ever want to kill someone all I'll have to do is take them to Florida and start a fight. Then when I shoot them I can say I was just defending myself.

spadassinicide


n. The act of coaxing someone, usually through insult, into initiating a swordsman's duel, and subsequently killing that person with superior skill so as to commit legal murder.
n. One who performs such an act.

Since you requested speculation, I speculate that that is where he ended his pursuit on the advice of the dispatcher, and what he was doing was trying to find a street sign.

What I've learned from all this is that if I ever want to kill someone all I'll have to do is take them to Florida and start a fight. Then when I shoot them I can say I was just defending myself.

Today I learned that there is a word for this:

Quote:

spadassinicide


n. The act of coaxing someone, usually through insult, into initiating a swordsman's duel, and subsequently killing that person with superior skill so as to commit legal murder.
n. One who performs such an act.

Darn Boomer. Ill never learn how to spell that word!

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/07/16/george-zimmerman-juror-book-drops-plan/2520159/

A juror who has been vocal since the acquittal of George Zimmerman said Tuesday night that Trayvon Martin "played a huge role" in his own death.

"When George confronted him, and he could have walked away and gone home," the woman, identified only as juror B-37, said of the 17-year-old victim in an interview on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360°. "He didn't have to do whatever he did and come back and be in a fight."

But she added that she and other jurors nevertheless felt a lot of sympathy for what happened to Trayvon and that she wished she could have given his family "the verdict they wanted."

"I don't want people to think that we didn't think about Trayvon Martin," she said, her voice appearing to crack with emotion. "We did."

She said that the jury deliberations were intense. She said she and others wanted to find something they could convict Zimmerman of, but there was nothing legally that they could do.

"I wanted to find him guilty of not using his senses, but you can't fault anybody," she said of Zimmerman. "You can't charge him with anything because he didn't do anything unlawful."

The woman spoke exclusively to CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360." The interview was partly aired Monday night and continued Tuesday.

Nice. If I were on trial, I would surely like to have the jury be on a first name basis with me, too.