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Originally Posted by Dr.Bobby
This isn't a case of self defense, Zimmerman was not being threatened.
Let's not become so calloused that we miss the essential fact here: A totally innocent person is now dead b/c there is a law on the books that allows people to play cop without any training or qualifications to do so.
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If you're in a gated community after dark, and someone comes up asking who you are and you want to diffuse the situation, providing your address and the name of the person you are staying with is a GREAT way to do that. The story would have ended there. Telling the person to fuck off and mind your own business is a way to make sure the confrontation progresses to the next step. Starting to punch the person asking questions to the ground (even if they put their hands on you) is a way to take the confrontation to another level. That's what the kid chose to do. He lost that fight. His fault. I don't know enough about law, but Zimmerman's guilty of manslaughter or criminal negligence. Not murdering an "innocent" person.
So, how was it not self defense? You should just let some young person beat on you? You might be a cuckold like that Doctor, but not everyone else is.