so let me get this straight you can follow after a another person and confront them and if they resist you can kill them without any consequence WOW what has this world come to where you can't take a walk back home without being racially profiled
The thing is, however, that the profiling was dead-on.
Martin could have gone home. Martin, instead, eluded Zimmerman, then surprised him.
Exactly what happened after that is only known by Zimmerman and Martin. The fact of the matter is, though, that Zimmerman had contusions on the back of his head and had been pinned to the ground on his back, as well as having a bloodied nose. Martin had a single gunshot wound that ended up being fatal.
No, you cannot 'hunt' someone.
That said - if someone is following you, and you then attack them (which is what all of the physical evidence in this case suggests) - that person still has the legal right to self-defense.
I wish that the prosecution did a better job; there was alot of evidence against zimmerman including the pieces of evidence/ stories that he provided which were simply inconsistent
Garbage in - garbage out.
The Prosecution had absolutely nothing to work with. None of the physical evidence supported the theory that Zimmerman escalated the confrontation to deadly force. All of the physical evidence suggests that it was Martin who initially escalated the use of force to deadly force.
To carry a firearm for the military, we had to be able to rattle this stuff off the top of our heads at any random request:
Deadly Force: "Force that a person uses causing, or that a person knows or should know would create a substantial risk of causing, death or serious bodily harm."
Serious Bodily Harm: "Does not include minor injuries such as a black eye or bloody nose. But does include broken or dislocated bones, deep cuts or torn members of the body, serious damage to internal organs and any other life threatening injury."
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That is also relevant, and illustrates the concepts that are beat into our heads because we are legally accountable to them.
What all of this boils down to is that someone like myself operating in a security position within the military would have -any- discharge of my weapon poured over considerably, and -any- incident involving the use of physical force would be subjected to huge amounts of organizational oversight and outside investigations. Were I Zimmerman - it would have been a "good shoot." The use of force was appropriate for the threat presented. It was an unintentional and unfortunate consequence that Martin died, but the threat was ceased.
Civilians are not nearly as heavily regulated in their use of force and the same legal restrictions do not apply.
There simply was no case for murder here. Manslaughter would have been an over-charge.
The terms “you" and “your" only supports the fact that you have some sort of racism inside of you. Let's get this straight, We are ALL equal. Don't try and blame the minority on where this piss poor country is at today.
Kid, by "You" I mean people of roughly average intelligence. Even those rated as 'slightly above average' are horribly primitive in thought and cranial capacity by my standards.
We are not equal. Bluntly, when it comes to intellectual pursuits - people such as yourself are useful as sources of information and experiences that are difficult for people like myself to have, being limited to only being able to be in one place at one time. That, and as people to train to do physical tasks en masse that would require years of labor on our individual parts to achieve.
Doesn't matter what color you are.
I'm more red than I am white, in terms of physical color (though my primary lineage is German). The Cherokee, for whatever reason, expresses rather strongly in me.
You're all equally hideous offenses to skin tones and have the intelligence of a sea sponge until you demonstrate otherwise.
