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Old 03-27-2012, 08:49 PM
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It makes my blood boil that people are just jumping on this bandwagon and going straight for the racecard without knowing all the facts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Rakn...eature=related

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* The photo that is always displayed of Martin are 4-5 years old when he was 12 or 13 while he was a 6 foot 150-170lb 17 year old at the time of the incident. Simply a ploy to trick people into thinking he was some young innocent child

* Eyewitness accounts state that Martin was on top of Zimmerman beating him up. Zimmerman states that he was being punched in the face and having his head slammed into the pavement. Which is Violent Felonious Assault

*Police and Paramedics state that Zimmerman had a broken/bloody nose and a bloody gash on his head when they arrived

*Eyewitness(es) state that it was Zimmerman screaming for help. The lead police detective showed the recording to Martin's father and he states that the scream was not his son

*Zimmerman claims that Martin went for his gun and he was trying to get back to his car when Martin was shot

*Instead of Martin explaining that he allegedly was visiting his father he attacked Zimmerman according to Zimmerman's claims

*Is it really that hard to believe that a 6 foot 150-170lb 17 year old can get the drop on a 5 foot 2 overweight 28 year old man in a hand to hand fight?

I'm not saying Zimmerman was all in the right but people need to know the facts before they jump on this crap.
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Old 03-27-2012, 11:05 PM
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Basically we have a case that might be self defense...it might not. Blown out of all preportions by the media who is playing the race card and muddying up the facts. Now when the case goes to trial everything is going to be tarnished by what the media has done.
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Old 03-27-2012, 11:07 PM
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And even worse, by this point, with the race agitators already whipped into such a frenzy, there is no foreseeable way this can end well at all.
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Old 03-27-2012, 11:44 PM
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Old 03-27-2012, 11:50 PM
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I hope the Sanford police are prepared for a LA Riots scenario soon.
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Old 03-28-2012, 12:27 AM
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If Zimmerman wasn't armed for all we know he could've been the dead one.
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Old 04-02-2012, 10:45 PM
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Normally, in cases like this, I completely ignore the people who play the race card and side with the law. I'm as weary as you guys of all the bitching and whining about how racist and evil America is, which seems inevitable whenever stuff like this happens. (And in this case, it's really ironic, since Zimmerman is half-Peruvian, which makes him as "white" as our President.)

But from what I've read so far, Zimmerman was really NOT in the right here. He apparently had a reputation for being short-tempered, and he had a record of his own (several arrests for domestic violence and even an assault on a fellow officer). The 911 dispatcher told him NOT to pursue Martin, but he did anyway. Sounds to me like a bit of a hothead, possibly with a Napoleon Complex (since he was such a short dude). Even if Martin is a teenage thug, and even if he was killed in self-defense, it still appears that Zimmerman may have acted in a way that made the situation more dangerous than it needed to be. And the stuff that I've seen on Zimmerman detailing his history isn't just being posted by my leftist Facebook friends, either - there are quite a few Libertarians who find him unsympathetic.

None of this, of course, changes the fact that investigators should have the chance to evaluate the evidence before we draw conclusions. And I doubt that the evidence will cast Martin in a good light, either way (no matter what his leftist sympathizers want to believe). I just don't think you should all be so quick to get behind Zimmerman and absolve him of any guilt just because of what he was, as opposed to who he was. Law enforcement may be an honorable profession, but it can attract some very dishonorable people.
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Wasn't he just a neighborhood watchman?
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Wasn't he just a neighborhood watchman?
Yes. I use the term "law enforcement" quite loosely here.
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And now he's being charged with 2nd degree murder.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/04/11...r-report-says/
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