Did you know that this lead prosecuter, Angela Corey, filed an affidavit that led to the indictments of Zimmerman. And this affidavit contained so many falsehoods and base exagerations that a leading liberal legal authority, Alan Dershowitz of Harvard, called for her disbarment.
I was troubled by the incident. A lot. I believed then and believe now that young Martin should not be dead. More accurately, I do not think there is a reason for him to be dead. Nothing that occurred, nothing he did, should have put him anywhere near a life-threatening situation. Nothing. He was walking down the street, maybe in a suspicious way. And Zimmerman - on the look out in connection with his status as a neighborhood watch volunteer - saw him. He did the proper thing: he called the police. The 911 dispatcher took the info and had patrols responding. The dispatcher asked for more information and Zimmerman said, only then, that the person he'd been watching was apparently black. His unsure response was because Martin was wearing the ubiquitous hoody. At some point Zimmerman lost sight of Martin and apparently said, loud enough for the 911 dispatcher to hear him, that he would follow him and try to see what he was doing. The 911 dispatcher told him "you don't have to do that." Had Zimmerman heeded the caution and got back in his car, none of this would've happened. But Zimmerman went on the prowl. Shortly thereafter, the two came together and the rest is history.
But even when they came together, no one had to die. A struggle ensued and some evidence suggests that Martin gained the upper hand and was on top of Zimmerman and whacking him in the head. But no one was seriously injured in the fracas. Martin's only reported marks were on his knuckles, an indication his hands were being used as fists to pummel Zimmerman. On the other hand, Zimmerman had two minor abrasions on the back of his head, a broken nose and some facial contusions.
One witness testified that when he saw the two males going at each other, he believes Martin was on top and Zimmerman on the bottom. He also believed that Martin was punching Zimmerman or, possibly, slamming Zimmerman's head into the pavement. The last suggestion was provocative, for sure, but was probably not nearly as bad as it sounds. Zimmerman was not likely to be raising his head very high after Martin pushed it into the pavement. There was also testimony from several witnesses that one of the combatants was screaming. The respective mothers said that the screaming person was their son. The scream was high-pitched and indicative of someone petrified at their current situation. I believe that Martin, after getting some licks in, backed off, stepped back. Most people, in that situation, would've jumped to their feet and run like hell. But Zimmerman had a gun and he used it. Life is neither fair nor understanding. Why was Martin there? I've heard that the spot where he was killed was but 100 feet from the home where he was staying. Was he walking toward that house? Was the course he was taking through the row homes where the incident occurred a true short cut for him? You know what? It doesn't really matter. He had done nothing for which he should have died. Even if he was there to steal, and even if he was laying in wait for Zimmerman, who he knew was following him, and even if he pummeled Zimmerman because he could, he didn't deserve to die. But he did. Anytime someone so young is cut down in the prime of his life it is an unspeakable tragedy.
Then there is the awful, shameful, egregious aftermath of the shooting, an episode that culminated in the trial that ended Saturday. Initially, the people legally charged with examining the incident and the evidence culled from it concluded that they did not have near enough evidence that a crime had been committed. First degree murder requires the fact finder to identify evidence that the killer had premeditation. This means that he thought about what he was about to do - plotted his crime - and did what he could to carry out his plans. Even the most vengeful public official never went to that extent. The other levels of murder and manslaughter require different degrees of malicious intent. In other words, the death occurred because the killer was angry or incensed at the victim and acted on that anger or spirit. Go back to the scenario I laid out above. Let's say it happened that way. Let's say that Martin, angry that the "creepy...cracker" (as the State's Witness, Rachel Jeantel, a 19-year-old friend or girlfriend of Martin's, quoted Martin in describing Zimmerman), hid behind a bush and when Zimmerman came by, he jumped out and confronted him, leading to the lethal event. Let's say that the confrontation led quickly to Martin gaining the advantage. It is not hard to think that Martin pinned Zimmerman to the ground and whacked him several times, breaking his nose and leaving minor bruises on Zimmerman's head. Martin then decided he'd taught Zimmerman a lesson and pulled off of him. If Zimmerman shoots him at this moment, has he committed a criminal act?
No sane person would say, upon reflection, that in such a scenario Martin deserved to die. I don't think many people, with time to think, would say that Martin had it coming. Zimmerman had little or no time to think. He knew, well, that Martin would have little difficulty in dishing out more punishment in such a situation. Had Zimmerman ever before, in his lifetime, received a beating like that? It's nice to sound all optimistic and noble, when reflecting, to say that Zimmerman's number one priority should've been to make sure no one died.
This is an awful tragedy. Zimmerman was negligent, and reactionary. He over-reacted, even if Martin hid, jumped him and whacked him around real good.
Into this tragic event jumps who? You name him, he jumped into the fray. The regulars could hardly wait to touch down in Florida and start whipping up the hatred. Al Sharpton does so very much to increase racial understanding. But, of course, the far left media treated everything Al said as insightful, deep and meaningful. This is why the far left media is always the second and third and fourth place media. Nobody else can tolerate such divisive mongering. The whole block of media coverage got off on such a high-minded beginning. Some racist-leftist at NBC got a hold of the 911 tapes and doctored them to make Zimmerman sound like a racists. How? Zimmerman described what he saw to the dispatcher, saying the suspect was walking close to the buildng, looking all around and not going anywhere in particular. The dispatcher cut in, asking if the suspect was white, hispanic or black. For a second or so, Zimmerman put the phone away and got himself a bit closer to Martin. He returned to say, "I think he's black." But the racist-leftist at NBC edited out the dispatcher's question and pulled everything else a lot tighter. The result was an audio that had Zimmerman saying. "He's acting really suspicious. He's black." NBC sort of kind of apologized. They had the audacity to blame the atrocious incident on the editor's desire to save time and make the clip shorter. I know I believe that. The fine folk over at the New York Times tried to do NBC one up when - in trying desperately to make this an explosive racial incident that really mattered, labeled Zimmerman a "white hispanic." The color of your skin defines your race. You are not hispanic. You are not African American. Now, you are a white hispanic. This keeps alive the white killing black scenario that drives the story. With this racist thinking, they can try everyday to gin up the idea that white's will always hate blacks and do everything in their power to oppress them. Always and forever. Every white man is like that. Just ask the racists at the Times and at NBC.
But forget Al for a minute. The absolute worst comments were made by none other than obama. Any thought that the criticism he received after his mindless comments following the arrest of the Harvard professor somehow chastened him were shot out the window when he started in on this event. Will anyone ever forget the deep and meaningful "if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon?"
It added so much enlightenment to the situation. I know I felt a lot better.
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