So far as I am concerned, he got exonerated as soon as the witness testified that Trayvon was on top of him reigning down blows MMA style while Zimmerman asked for someone to call the police. It was up to the prosecution to prove Zimmerman DID NOT act in self defense and it sounds to me like they managed to prove that he did act in self defense.
Is it acting in self defense if you bring the problem upon yourself, though? He wouldn't have had to defend himself had he not stalked the kid in the first place, making it self defense for Trayvon. I guess this is why I despise lawyers...they can twist facts around so much that even the parties directly involved start to lose focus of what happened.
The media is doing it for ratings, not to mold opinion. The lawyers are doing it for their 15 minutes of fame, at the cost of both parties involved.
It seems those same media sources are now doing everything they can to make sure riots break out once an "innocent" verdict is read.
Sorry, we have been there, done that, got the T-shirt. It is not against any law even as best clueless and Teddy can twist them to follow someone. And that is assuming that he even did that. At present, there is only one person alive who can say who followed whom and I guarantee you he is not saying "I stalked Trayvon"! And, BTW, even if Zimmerman did stalk Trayvon and if Zimmerman started the fight, the Florida law still allows him to claim self defense. Really! The law is posted here.
And do I ever disagree with that. If nothing else, just look up how NBC ALTERED the 911 tape in this case. However, most of their bias is by NOT covering subjects contrary to their opinions. Examples? Benghazi, Afghanistan, employment, green energy, coal, EPA, IRS, Rosen, etc.
But we aren't talking about 9/11 or Benghazi or Afghanistan...we're talking about a murder trial in Florida that has nothing special going for it other than ratings. No political agenda, or partisan pulling hyperbol...just a simple murder trial. What advantage does the media have to persuade the public opinion one way or the other? Obama didn't do it. The left or the right didn't do it. No outcome will benefit either. So,what is the basis of your theory on what you claim?
I am reminded of the Emmett Till trial. Two adult men abducted, beat, and shot a 14-year old boy to death because he spoke to a white woman. The two men admitted their crime in court and walked away scot-free. That was in 1955. In 2012 we have an adult stalk a teenage boy with a loaded gun in his pocket and ended up shooting the teenager to death while defending himself from the teenager he was following. Hum? Some things in the south never change and when people say southern justice, everyone knows how that differs from actual justice. I don't see this as a race issue. I see this a gun issue. George Zimmerman's behavior was dictated by the knowledge that he had a trump card in his pocket and if anything that fact drove him to push a situation further than he had any right to push it. If anything dictated Trayvon Martin's behavior, it was dictated by an adult stranger stalking him and the fact that he was a 17-year old kid. George Zimmerman deserved to have his face punched in for his own stupidity while Trayvon Martin didn't deserve to die for reacting to a stranger following him with a loaded gun in his pocket. Zimmerman created the situation and as an adult he should have known better. What 17-year old do you know that would know enough to react to this situation perfectly with the vast experience most 17-year olds have? I don't think Zimmerman intended to kill anyone that night but he did create the situation that brought about the death a teenage boy. Is Zimmerman legally responsible for that death? I guess the jury has to decide that. At least there is a trial which was more than was going to happen originally. Let the chips fall where they may.
As a seventeen year old, he couldn't buy alcohol, or even cigarettes. But he can be stalked and shot by an adult, and some people think that's OK? < )) republicans )) Oy
It's in the interest of the liberal media to push their anti-gun rhetoric any which way they can. They've attempted to portray Zimmerman as a crazed, gun-toting lunatic who stalked a little boy and shot him dead for absolutely no reason whatsoever. I hope you're not so naive as to believe that. Did Zimmerman shoot Martin when he shouldn't have? Possibly. If that's the case, he should do time. Or did he shoot Martin in self-defense? Possibly. If that's the case, he should walk free. The only opinion that really matters in this case is that of the jury. We should know a verdict reasonably soon; the defense rested their case today.
Problem is that you CANNOT prove one whit of those allegations about Zimmerman. The only thing proven so far is that Trayvon was on top of Zimmerman beating the crap out of him. And, despite your opinions to the contrary, Florida law says that can easily be self defense regardless of the age of either of the participants, the ethnicity of either, the color of either's skin, the sex of either, etc.
I think the liberal media had their chance to shine with Sandy Hook and Virginia Tech and Columbine, and dozens more, but what good did it do? I doubt a single case like this will make any difference if those didn't. Nice try though.