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Originally Posted by thebigmole
Listen just a few days ago I was all for Zimmerman's complete guilt, but having more facts in the case it's much more complicated than that. The fact is that the neighborhood had had several robberies and that Trayvon fit the description of the suspect in those robberies. Had Trayvon been the thief people would have been upset that if Zimmerman hadn't called the cops. He was wrong and stupid to get out of his car to follow him. If he had really felt the need to keep an eye on Trayvon he could have done that from in his car. Now the next thing we know is that Trayvon was aware he was being followed and told his girlfriend he was going to ask Zimmerman why he was following him. Then the girlfriend heard Trayvon ask that question. The BIG IMPORTANT part that is still missing is what happened after that question was asked and before Trayvon punched Zimmerman. If Zimmerman had physically assaulted Trayvon in ANY WAY then Trayvon was acting in self defense and Zimmerman should be charged with manslaughter. If Trayvon indeed threw the first punch then Zimmerman was acting in his defense and that's the end of it. The thing is we don't know what happened, we probably never will know without a doubt. All we have to go on is what Zimmerman says happened and going off of that it's self defense and there's nothing we can do about it. However I still feel that Zimmerman is responsible, though not legally, because the physical confrontation NEVER would have happened if he had stayed in his car.
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Not true, we know what happened. Zimmerman threatened Trayvon with his firearm while he approached him, giving Trayvon the legal ability to defend himself under the stand your ground law. Dr Bobby said he heard it from the TV, so it must be true.
But really, this. There hasn't been any mention yet of whether or not Trayvon had 'defensive wounds', that could provide an argument that Zimmerman struck him. I
really don't think a grand jury is going to indict Zimmerman just because of his "looking for trouble" motive that Bobby is talking about. There needs to be a clear piece of evidence that Zimmerman provoked a physical confrontation (or even expected one) to bring this to trial, and unless I'm missing something huge, there isn't yet.