If the trial was all about whether or not this flabby, middle aged guy was getting the shit kicked out of him by a teenage boy and felt his only option was to use his gun to save his own life? Then under Florida law. The jury got it right.
But that is far from the WHOLE story!
He stood his ground, alright. But he stood it WAY too late.
Look, Zimmerman is the neighborhood watch guy in his gated community. You can call him a want a be Cop all you want, but there just isn't enough information to make that statement. Maybe he's just a guy who was tired of crime in his neighborhood. And he stepped up to do something.
BUT... When he called in a, "Suspicious" person, someone he didn't recognize, in his community, his job, as a Neighborhood Watch guy was over. End of story, you are out of it. The Police are on the way. The dispatcher even TOLD him to quit following the person that he called in, and the Cops were going to take care of it.
And this is where he SHOULD have stood his ground. Right where the dispatcher told him to cut it out. They would handle it from here.
But he didn't. He had to follow the kid. And the kid felt threatened. No one has any idea what, if anything was said between them. Did the kid say, "Why are you following me?" Did Zimmerman say, "Hey, I'm with Neighborhood Watch. Do you live here?"
Who knows. But between Zimmerman's phone call to 911 and Trayvon beating him up, Zimmerman screwed up. And it cost a teenager his life. And that's not right.
And yeah, I think the guy should have gone to prison. But it's not going to happen. And anyone who is surprised by this verdict, coming out of the state that stole the election for Bush in 2000, isn't paying attention.
If there were any REAL justice in this country? George Zimmerman would be sharing a cell with OJ Simpson, and they would both be serving life for Murder. Well, "life" being as long as it took one of them to make a good, "shank".
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