@BillRM,
Quote:Sorry but the facts are the facts and a jury who look at those facts found Zimmerman innocent.
No, they did not find him "innocent". And your continuing to assert that untruth makes you a bold faced liar as well as a fool who thinks he can peddle BS.
On the first vote taken by the jury, 3 of the 6 voted to convict--1 for second degree murder, and 2 for manslaughter--so this was no slam dunk case that lacked evidence.
Zimmerman was acquitted mainly because the defense convinced the jury
he might have acted in self-defense. That's all the flawed and shooter-favorable self-defense laws in Florida require, and it's hardly a finding of innocence.
And Zimmerman was not the "victim of an attack"--he racially profiled and stalked his victim,
with animus, and intentionally brought about a provocative encounter
without ever identifying himself, or his motives, to his victim, a teen who was minding his own business until Zimmerman began recklessly pursuing him, and without legitimate reason to do so.
And the jury rendered no decision regarding Trayvon Martin, they knew next to nothing about Trayvon Martin, and they could not know whether he had reacted in self-defense, when finally confronted by the man who had been stalking him in the dark, because Zimmerman's bullet silenced him as a witness. The only issue they had to consider was whether Zimmerman pulled the trigger because he was in fear of grave bodily harm--whether he pulled the trigger because he wanted to, or whether he pulled it because he felt he had to. The jury simply gave Zimmerman the benefit of the doubt, regarding self-defense, as required by Florida law.
Zimmerman was not the victim--Zimmerman was clearly the provocateur. And he has continued to provoke violent and menacing incidents with others since his acquittal. His behavior patterns have been consistent, both before and after he killed Trayvon Martin.
He needlessly killed an unarmed child, in an encounter that he engineered, for his own personal reasons, and that tragic death was totally avoidable.
The real thug and hoodlum is George Zimmerman. He simply got away with murder--the murder of an innocent unarmed child. That's nothing to be proud of, let alone something to be exploited, by him, for financial profit. The more this man reveals about himself, the more despicable he becomes.
He's the original, "Don't confuse me with the facts, my mind's already made up." 
