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Originally Posted by girlfromsocal
zimmerman was not white idk how this has to be a race issue
also whether he was a thug or not I don't think he had any chance to threaten his life. Reason why is because he had nothing with him nothing in his system he did not harrass zimmerman it was the other way around zimmerman pursued him and also the injuries he received from trayvon were minor. So he wasn't in immediate danger. When one gets into a fight with you it doesn't warrant you to pull out a gun on them. If it were the other way around I'd actually feel more sympathy seeing zimmerman was a serious threat in size to trayvon. But this way I don't believe zimmerman was in a life threatening situation. He was well over 50 lbs heavier even though he's only 5'7". He had a gun trayvon had skittles. He picked on a kid and he should be ashamed of himself.
Btw I know people have shot people who started fights with them and guess what? They're in prison rightfully so.
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Well Trayvon wasn't exactly a kid, he was almost 18 and was quite a bit taller than Zimmerman. And as I explained in my last post the law in Florida is such:
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776.012 Use of force in defense of person.—A person is justified in using force, except deadly force, against another when and to the extent that the person reasonably believes that such conduct is necessary to defend himself or herself or another against the other’s imminent use of unlawful force. However, a person is justified in the use of deadly force and does not have a duty to retreat if: (1) He or she reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another or to prevent the imminent commission of a forcible felony; or(2) Under those circumstances permitted pursuant to s. 776.013."
Now according to Zimmerman Trayvon was beating him to an extent where he felt his life was in danger. He was on top of him and beating his head into the ground and if that is true then under that law he will get off even if he is charged. Whether he "picked on" Trayvon is still unknown. He called the cops because Trayvon fit the description of a robbery suspect. Getting out of his car to follow him was stupid but I wouldn't call it "picking on" him. Trayvon then confronted Zimmerman about being followed at which point something (that we don't know) happened and Trayvon apparently punched him and got on top of him and started banging his head into the sidewalk. Now I'm sure Zimmerman also fought some, before shooting him. The point is according to Florida law Zimmerman will most likely get off because he shot Trayvon because he was in fear for his life. Whether that's really the right outcome kind of doesn't matter because it's the law.