The State of Florida vs George Zimmerman: The Trial

If Zimmerman is a "victim" of anything, it's his own volatility, his impaired impulse control, and his poor judgment.

All he was doing was walking home from the store, and trying to get there in time to watch a basketball game on TV.

From the book "If I had a Son" by Jack Cashill
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In his initial call to the nonemergency dispatcher and in his subsequent interviews, he explained the variables, all of them relevant, that led him to suspect Trayvon Martin may have been “up to no good.”
• It was raining, and Martin was wandering about, not jogging or walking swiftly to a destination. Zimmerman’s observation was validated by the unaccounted-for twenty-five minutes in Martin’s return from the 7-Eleven.
• Martin was looking at houses. The area had been plagued by burglaries and home invasions, particularly along its unfenced western flank, where Zimmerman first spotted Martin.
• Martin looked high. The THC in his blood indicated he was. As Martin’s recent history suggested, he got high a lot.
• Martin looked like he was “up to no good.” Given his recent apprehension for possession of stolen jewelry and a burglary tool, Zimmerman may have been right.
• Martin was male. This was perhaps the most significant variable. Males had committed all known property crime in the area.
• Martin was in his “late teens.” So were a disproportionate percentage of the criminal suspects.
• Martin was tall. He was a full-grown young man, not a child.
• When asked, Zimmerman speculated that Martin “looked black.” Forty seconds later, he confirmed that Martin was black. Zimmerman had dubbed him “suspicious” before he knew his race. In that all recent arrests had been of young black men, however, Martin’s race likely factored into Zimmerman’s thinking. How could it not?
• The fact that Martin wore a hoodie seemed the least significant of all variables. Zimmerman mentioned this only when asked—“Yeah, a dark hoodie, like a gray hoodie, and either jeans or sweat pants and white tennis shoes”—and made no point of the hoodie afterwards. It was, after all, raining.

resembles the cross-grained Ted Cruz inside his parallel world.

My lord you dare to posted a picture of Trayvon showing him as he was when he attacked Zimmerman not as the smiling innocent looking 13 years old the media kept using!!!!!!!!!!!

Shame on you.

Take note that a jury did not agree with your strange version of reality.

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All he was doing was walking home from the store, and trying to get there in time to watch a basketball game on TV.

Another of the many many lies as he was not in a hurry walking slowly in the rain one of the factors that drawn Zimmerman attention to him in the first place.

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From the book "If I had a Son" by Jack Cashill
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In his initial call to the nonemergency dispatcher and in his subsequent interviews, he explained the variables, all of them relevant, that led him to suspect Trayvon Martin may have been “up to no good.”
• It was raining, and Martin was wandering about, not jogging or walking swiftly to a destination. Zimmerman’s observation was validated by the unaccounted-for twenty-five minutes in Martin’s return from the 7-Eleven.
• Martin was looking at houses. The area had been plagued by burglaries and home invasions, particularly along its unfenced western flank, where Zimmerman first spotted Martin.
• Martin looked high. The THC in his blood indicated he was. As Martin’s recent history suggested, he got high a lot.
• Martin looked like he was “up to no good.” Given his recent apprehension for possession of stolen jewelry and a burglary tool, Zimmerman may have been right.
• Martin was male. This was perhaps the most significant variable. Males had committed all known property crime in the area.
• Martin was in his “late teens.” So were a disproportionate percentage of the criminal suspects.
• Martin was tall. He was a full-grown young man, not a child.
• When asked, Zimmerman speculated that Martin “looked black.” Forty seconds later, he confirmed that Martin was black. Zimmerman had dubbed him “suspicious” before he knew his race. In that all recent arrests had been of young black men, however, Martin’s race likely factored into Zimmerman’s thinking. How could it not?
• The fact that Martin wore a hoodie seemed the least significant of all variables. Zimmerman mentioned this only when asked—“Yeah, a dark hoodie, like a gray hoodie, and either jeans or sweat pants and white tennis shoes”—and made no point of the hoodie afterwards. It was, after all, raining.

I hope you eventually conquer the sickness driving you, Bill

Coud the home owner SEE thru the door (glass door, or screen door) ??
or was it a wooden door thru which he accidentally shot ?
Did the home owner see the decedent b4 his gun went off?

Oralloy, I wonder if u 'd consider dedicating a new thread
to discussion of this recent event, inasmuch as this thread
is already dedicated to Zimmy 's prosecution ?

your strange version of reality.

Another of the many many lies

No idea. But they just charged him with second degree murder.

I hope you eventually conquer the sickness driving you, Bill.

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I hope you eventually conquer the sickness driving you, Bill

Yes anyone who are not willing to shut their mind and reason down in order to be able to buy into the nonsense that the news media put out is very sick indeed

Damn it Zimmerman is white repeat white and a racist repeat a racist and a cold blooded killer of a poor innocent black child.

Facts, such as Zimmerman being of mixed race to the point that his own mother was bar from southern lunch counters at times in the 1950s or that he stood up for a homeless black man and mentor fatherless black children and dated black women all should be disregards.

"I was afraid that he may have done something because the kid was black,” the witness told investigators. “Because growing up they’ve always made, him and his family have always made statements that they don’t like black people if they don’t act like white people. They like black people if they act white and other than that, they talk a lot of bad things about black people.”
The woman said that Zimmerman’s Peruvian mother was among the more boastfully racist of the clan.

“His mother protested it very loud,” the woman said. During one incident, the woman said that Zimmerman’s mother had come to the witness’s workplace, and during a discussion about President Obama, made it clear how she felt about him and his ethnicity.

“I don’t like Obama,” the woman claimed Zimmerman’s mother stated. “She said, 'because he is black and I am a racist.'”

“I have a black girl that works right behind me and I’m like, what, are you just, let's go, and I kind of just swept her in the back,” the woman recalled. “I can’t believe that she stood there so loud and proud and said that she was a racist.”
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/07/21/1225435/-The-Racism-of-the-Zimmerman-Family

At family gatherings, she said, much of the conversation centered around "financial status and material things." Zimmerman's mother would often talk about "marrying into white families in order to improve one's status."
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/07/21/1225435/-The-Racism-of-the-Zimmerman-Family

oralloy wrote:

No idea. But they just charged him with second degree murder.

Second degree murder instead of manslaughter ????????
Lord they do love to overcharge in the state of florida.

I am hoping you feeders stop with it.
But you get off on arguing forever with twine.

don't care if they were both purple with pink polka dots. Zimmerman was the aggressor...and Martin was the victim.