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Originally Posted by dani99
I think it was cold blooded murder. It doesn't matter what race anyone is. Murder is murder. I don't like this Zimmerman guy at all. The kid didn't do anything wrong to him or to anyone, in that matter. I don't see why he had to kill him. His butt belongs behind bars, in my opinion.
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Definition of murder:
Murder is the unlawful killing, with
malice aforethought, of another human, and generally this state of mind distinguishes murder from other forms of unlawful
homicide (such as
manslaughter).
It wasn't murder. I HIGHLY doubt that Zimmerman was driving along in his car saw Trayvon and thought, hey let me get out of the car and shoot this kid. Especially since the evidence proves otherwise. If he was going to murder him he wouldn't have been stupid enough to call the cops and tell them he was following Trayvon. As for the Trayvon doing nothing wrong to him, while the confrontation could have been avoided if Zimmerman had stayed in his car, Trayvon did beat him up. So that would constitute as doing something wrong to him.
Listen I'm sad the kid is dead. And I do think that Zimmerman is responsible and should be held accountable. However what's bothering me is all of these people saying, oh why did he have to kill him. No one should kill anyone. It is murder. Would you really be saying the same thing if Zimmerman had caught Trayvon in the act of breaking into a house and Trayvon attacked him in the same way? Just because someone kills someone else doesn't always make it murder, or even unjustified or wrong. In this case I do believe it could have been avoided. But people seriously need to get the facts and stop listening to celebrities and civil rights groups that don't know anything and have an agenda, stop jumping on the bandwagon.