Better a Hundred Guilty Men should go Free than an Innocent One should go to jail. Well, George Zimmerman's just become One of a Hundred.
Zimmerman is guilty but, he's been acquitted because his victim is of no consequence. The facts surrounding this Killing show beyond a "reasonable doubt" that George Zimmerman is Guilty Second Degree Murder. Which is why Right-Wingers have been screaming into the Internet for a year and a half to get Zimmerman off.
Thus, they made the smearing and slandering of Trayvon Martin their Cause Celebre.
Martin's background has no bearing on the incidents surrounding the night of his murder. Setting aside the fact he committed no crime on his final night on earth, his past marijuana use and minor incidents at school were unknown that night to his killer and thus can not have played a role in Zimmerman's decision to ensure this one wasn't going to get away.
Zimmerman hadn't witnessed anything other than a "suspicious" young black male was walking around the neighborhood. What made Martin suspicious? There's a reason Towns used to have Signs which read: Ni[clang], Don't Let the Sun Set on Your Black Ass in Town. Walking while Black is still a crime in most of America.
In Law Enforcement paralance, Zimmerman is a "White Hispanic" just as he was refered to. While, Race is a bullshit construct designed to seperate people, Law Enforcement in most States still adhere to the Black/White/Hispanic/Asian paradigm. And Hispanic is broken into Black and White subgroups. You need not believe me, simply ask any Illinois Police Officer. But, notice how ignorant Right-Wingers jumped upon the label as Proof Positive! the Liberal Media was trying to railroad poor innocent Georgie.
George Zimmerman is 250+ pounds of soft bubble gum. His former MMA instructor could see it, testyfing he was "just physically soft" and "non-athletic". His girlfriend who accused Zimmerman of Domestic Violence, knew he was soft. The Police from multiple contacts with Georgie, his 46 calls to 911, and his arrest for Battery to a Police Officer no doubt knew he was soft. And soft, wide-waisted, flabby assed wannabes like Zimmerman need that Gun to Prove their tough.
And man, once you have that Gun on your hip, it's weight just screeeeeeeeams for the need to be pulled to prove yourself.
Beyond the blathering of Zimmerman's Defense Attorneys, "Martin armed himself with a sidewalk" for instance, repeatedly badgered Martin's mother to admit Trayvon was responsible for his own death.
Trayvon Martin was under no legal obligation to stop for Zimmerman or to explain his presence in the area to him. None. Trayvon was entirely within his rights to be in that neighborhood.
And the whole incident would have been over when Zimmerman told the Sanford Dispatcher , "Shit he's Running," if Zimmerman had chosen not to follow a young man who had committed No Crime. Zimmerman had no legal authority to follow or confront Martin. But, Zimmerman wasn't going this "asshole get away".
Bruce Lee, when asked what the Best Martial Arts move was, allegedly said; To Run.
Martin did the right thing by running at first but, (and we'll never know the unbiased true sequence of events) he must have decided he'd run long enough from this "creepy-ass cracker".
If there's a Stand Your Ground case to have been made it would have been for Martin. But, despite being within his rights Trayvon made what proved to be a fatal mistake. The entire defense of Zimmerman was based on portraying Trayvon, a young black man out at night in a hoodie as suspicious and complicit in his death. And they're right.
Zimmerman told the Sanford Dispatcher, "This guy looks like he's up to no good, or he's on drugs or something. It's raining and he's just walking around, looking about."
Of course, Zimmerman thought Trayvon Martin was "up to no good" and "on drugs". As he told Dispatch he's black. And this is America. Young Black Males are a priori assumed to be Guilty of something.
Zimmerman hadn't seen him commit a Burglary. Zimmerman hadn't looked at Martin's pupils and couldn't have gotten a whiff of anything while seated in his car with it raining outside to claim Martin was on drugs, other than knowing he was black. But when Martin ran as he knew he was one of those assholes who always got away and Zimmerman the Self-Appointed Watch Captain wasn't going to let this one get away.
Zimmerman admitted on the 911 call that he was following Martin. The Sanford Dispatcher is a Sworn Law Enforcement Officer, so yes she had the legal power to order Zimmerman not to follow Martin. Too bad she phrased her instruction to him as, "We don't need you to do that."
It's one reason my contacts with a possible perp always include Stop Police. Don't Move.
But, that doesn't matter now. Zimmerman's been acquitted, Martin's still dead, and Gun Violence rules the Land.
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Rather like the kind of driver who manages to hit a 700 pound motorcycle with lights on in daylight and a 200 pound rider with an orange jacket....they cannot see what they do not want to acknowledge.
we are a nation of laws, and a jury has spoken
-Barack Obama
After Zimmerman's acquittal Reactionary Right-Wing Racists definitively proved this Murder was always about Race;
Mark O'Mara declared, "I think that things would have been different if George Zimmerman was black for this reason -- he never would have been charged with a crime..."
Child Raping Draft Dodging Ted Nugent felt righteous enough to call Trayvon "a racist, dope-smoking, gangsta".
Juror B37 declared Zimmerman has a good heart and she hoped he learned a lesson from killing this "boy". She may or may not have a book deal. 4 other released a statement distancing themselves from her.
Zimmerman's brother compared Trayvon to a murderer and is making the talk show rounds to complain about reverse racism and President Obama tapping his phones.
Newt Gingrich continued to earn his reputation as a stupid man's image of a smart man, when he spoke of protestors as "lynch mobs" and delved into the White Hispanic being racist without knowing what he was talking about.
Richard Cohen of the Washington Post wrote about this being an American Tragedy because while it was bad Zimmerman murdered Martin, Trayvon had it coming because he looked suspicious.
Sean Hannity continues to have entire shows dedicated to President Obama's guilt in the Martin murder.
And Racist Limbaugh has now given himself permission to use the Nigg-Slur as long as he ends it in "a".
There was a Guilty Verdict in this case. Trayvon Martin was put on trial and found guilty of the worst crime; being Black in America.
The truth can be so obvious, yet so many will not see it. The truth in this case is that George Zimmerman stalked and killed a black teenager, and a white jury said that was just fine. People are now saying that Trayvon Martin should have run home. As a black person, he had no right to stand his ground when menaced by a murderous white person. Zimmerman, on the other hand, being the child of a white judge, had the right to provoke a confrontation with Trayvon, knowing that he intended to end it with a bullet. Standing your ground in the South is nothing but a euphemism for the right of white people to kill black people whenever they feel like it. It's been that way down there for at least a couple hundred years, and despite the fictions spread by the likes of Antonin Scalia, it hasn't gone away yet.
GZ lied when he claimed didn't follow TM after the dispatcher told him not to. He concocted a story about looking for an address to give the dispatcher, when the dispatcher never asked for one! The officer the dispatcher was sending was going to meet George at the mailboxes.
And when George and Trayvon encountered each other George says he went for his cell phone to call 911, but why would he take out his cell phone if he thought Trayvon might have a gun? Remember he said that when Trayvon circled his vehicle he put his hand in his waistband (threat that he might have a gun)?
I think GZ had, or took his gun out and tried to "detain" Trayvon until the cops arrived. But remember that GZ never said (in his taped "reenactment") that he ever identified himself. The fight began when Trayvon wouldn't cooperate with a stranger giving him orders (he "resisted arrest").
The whole thing with Trayvon seeing the gun during the fight and saying "you're going to die tonight motherf*cker"... very likely another lie to bolster GZ's "self defense" claim.
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