@BillRM,
Quote:At a time when you had reached the size of a fully grown man did you jump an adult knocking him down and then after getting on top of him try to pound his head into the sidewalk?
Except, Zimmerman's head was never pounded on the sidewalk.
The fight didn't even take place on the sidewalk.
That was an issue the prosecution did raise at the trial. It was one of many indications of Zimmerman's flawed credibility.
But O'Mara simply glossed over the fact that the evidence indicated the fight occurred on grass, and that Zimmerman's very minor injuries were not consistent with any head pounding, or a beating of any sort, and, instead, O'Mara paraded around a large heavy chunk of concrete in his arms, as though it were a weapon which could be dropped on Zimmerman's head, and used it for dramatic effect, to further confuse the jury about what happened, and to exaggerate the danger Martin allegedly posed to Zimmerman. It was all smoke and mirrors--and it worked.
Not to mention the fact that Martin, who had a perfect right to be in that private gated community, had no idea who Zimmerman was, or why he had been stalking him in the dark, or what Zimmerman intended to do
to him when he was confronted by him. People generally follow you around in the dark like that because they intend to harm you in some way--that's not "annoying" behavior, it's menacing and intimidating, and frightening, and it was Zimmerman who initiated it.
Zimmerman's reckless and impulsive behaviors brought about the entire encounter--Martin was simply walking home from the store, talking on his phone, and minding his own business. And he had a right to get home safely, unimpeded by Zimmerman, or any one else. Martin was doing
nothing wrong. He became the victim of Zimmerman's obsessions with young black men in that housing complex, and then he became the victim of Zimmerman's gun.
Zimmerman brought about the totally needless, and avoidable, death of an innocent unarmed child, who had done nothing at all "suspicious" or criminal, because he couldn't control his own feelings of anger and his impulsivity. And then he came up with a bullshit story (one with several versions) to justify firing his gun, and the defense managed to sell the BS to the jury sufficiently to raise concerns that
he might have been acting in self-defense, which is all it takes in Florida to get an acquittal.
But nothing, including the trial verdict, changes the fact that Zimmerman brought about the totally needless, and avoidable, death of an innocent unarmed child, and that's the unsavory notoriety he's now trying to cash in on--on the day that would have been that child's 19th birthday.
He lacks all decency.
I'm not surprised he's been suicidal, I don't know how he can live with himself knowing he caused the senseless, and avoidable, death of an unarmed child, because he was caught up in playing wannabe cop that night.