The State of Florida vs George Zimmerman: The Trial

My point is that I innocently followed/tailed/watched her with no malicious intent, but no doubt some of the sex-crazed anti-Zim brigade in here would say I "stalked" her.

Please use any of the dictionary definitions I have posted on "stalk, stalked, or stalking" to apply it to your claim that the anti-Zim brigade would say you "stalked" her?

Prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda told jurors in Sanford, Florida, Thursday that Trayvon Martin was doing "normal things" on Feb. 26, 2012. But George Zimmerman thought he was "up to no good." Zimmerman "presumed something that was not true," that the teenager on his way home from a convenience store was a "suspect," a criminal. "Instead of waiting for the police to come and do their job," de la Rionda said, Zimmerman tracked Trayvon and confronted him. Consequently, "a teenager is dead," de la Rionda continued. "He is dead through no fault of his own. He is dead because another man made assumptions."...

• Zimmerman's actions led to the confrontation with Trayvon. De la Rionda said: "But who followed who? Who was minding his own business? Of the two, who was the one who was armed and who knew that they were armed?" Zimmerman brought a gun to a fight that he started, de la Rionda said.

• Zimmerman's claims to police that he was fearful don't make sense. The fearfulness Zimmerman expressed, de la Rionda contended, was part of a string of exaggerations used to convince police that he felt threatened. Among these were his claim that Trayvon circled his car and seemed at one point to be reaching into his waistband. "Why does this defendant get out of the car if he thinks [Trayvon] is a threat to him? Because he has a gun, an equalizer."

• Zimmerman's claim of self-defense is bogus. "Is it really self-defense when you follow somebody?" De la Rionda reminded jurors that the defendant had taken a course in which the curriculum included studying the law in terms of self-defense. "So [he] knows all the bullet points needed to show that."...

• The fact that Zimmerman called Trayvon an "asshole" under his breath was "not a description," de la Rionda said. "Why is he uttering that word, other than that is how he feels. [...] I would say that is more than a little angry: that's ill will, that's hatred." By calling him a "******* punk," the prosecutor went on, Zimmerman indicated he had already made up his mind that Trayvon was a criminal.

• De la Rionda noted that paying attention to what was going on in the neighborhood was a good thing. And that wanting to be a cop and taking criminal-justice courses, as Zimmerman had done, were also good things. But it was wrong for him to take the law into own hands, he added.

• The prosecutor used snippets from taped police interviews with Zimmerman, the reenactment of the shooting and an interview with Fox host Sean Hannity to support his argument that Zimmerman changed his story.

For instance, de la Rionda said, Zimmerman claimed to police that he was not following Trayvon but looking for the name of a street that he didn't know even though he had lived in the gated community where the shooting took place for four years and walked his dog there every day. The prosecutor says it was an obvious lie for him to say he didn't know the street's name.

Zimmerman's description of the fight he says Trayvon started in a surprise punch to the nose also doesn't stand up to scrutiny, de la Rionda said, noting that Zimmerman quickly caught himself and backtracked during the reenactment with the police: "When I walked back toward him ... I saw him coming toward me."

Zimmerman's description of the fight also makes no sense, de la Rionda told jurors. Zimmerman said that he fell backward onto the grass after Trayvon punched him. Trayvon then climbed on top of him, in Zimmerman's version, and kept punching him, saying "you're going to die tonight, ************," as Zimmerman began screaming for help. At this point, Trayvon put his hands over Zimmerman's nose and mouth and went for Zimmerman's gun, according to his version.

How many hands did Trayvon have? de la Rionda asked. And how did the teenager see the gun, in the dark, with Zimmerman on his back and the weapon holstered inside his waistband on the back of his hip beneath him. "How did the victim see this gun? Or is it just another lie that [Zimmerman] tells?" And, "He's holding one hand over his mouth, one hand over his noise and with that third hand he reaches for the gun?"

De la Rionda said Zimmerman had told officers that after firing his pistol, he didn't at first realize he had shot Trayvon. But if that was the case, the prosecutor asked "What the heck's he doing holstering the gun?"

As to the testimony of eyewitness John Good, who said he saw the darker-skinned, darker-clothed person in the fight on top swinging his fists at the person beneath, de la Rionda pointed out that Good didn't see the actual shooting or the blows hitting. And he didn't see the defendant's hands. "Did [Zimmerman] have the gun out? ... Was [Trayvon] trying to protect himself from the gun?"

• If Trayvon was beating Zimmerman so badly, de la Rionda asked, why did the police and medical examiner find minor injuries to his knuckles and no blood from Zimmerman on his hands?

• After the shooting, Zimmerman said he spread Trayvon's arms out, claiming that he was looking for a weapon. Said de la Rionda, "Why did he have to say that? Because it's part of wanting to be a cop. [...] Because that's what cops do." When the police arrived and found Trayvon face down, his hands were underneath him.

To believe Zimmerman's version, the prosecutor said, jurors have to believe that Trayvon surprised him with a sucker-punch, that Zimmerman lay on the ground being whaled on and finally managed to pull out his pistol and shoot the teenager through the heart from a difficult angle.

Instead, de la Rionda said, there was a fight in which the two rolled around, with the victim and the defendant each sometimes on top. "But, again, why did this occur? What led up to this?"

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/07/11/1222816/-Prosecutor-Trayvon-Martin-is-dead-because-George-Zimmerman-wrongly-profiled-him-as-up-to-no-good#

stalk
stôk/Submit
verb
gerund or present participle: stalking
1.
pursue or approach stealthily.
"a cat stalking a bird"
synonyms: creep up on, trail, follow, shadow, track down, go after, be after, course, hunt; More

stalking
stalking [staw-king] Show IPA
noun 1 adjective 1

noun
1.
the act or an instance of stalking, or harassing another in an aggressive, often threatening and illegal manner:
Stalking is now a crime in many states.
adjective
2.
of or pertaining to the act of pursuing or harassing:
Stalking laws have alleviated some problems for famous people.

approach stealthily
creep up on
shadow

threatening and illegal manner

What gives these people the impression the prosecution didn't deal with Zimmerman's pursuit of Martin? Of course they raised that issue..

Cicerone said: Those injuries could have been self-inflected

It seems no matter how often I post the dictionary definition of stalk, you fail to understand it.

That could be true too!~ You can't prove it either way; that's a FACT

Stalking is illegal;

weakly, because the state arrested Zimmerman on the basis of the story that the Marin lead mob was selling, that Martin was killed in a fit of racism

You'd be carrying on about a "dysfunctional government" that was so incompetent it didn't care about your unarmed child winding up dead at the hands of a shooter with a questionable and unconvincing story of self-defense--you'd be screaming for the man's arrest, and you'd be blasting the government.