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AyaK 10426 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
03-25-12, 08:52 AM (EST)
9. "RE: The Trayvon Martin shooting."
>Which (self defence that is ) on the face of it seems >to be a bit implausible to me. I think >they should have detained him based on what I've read, >but I give the police the benefit of the doubt.
>But now, after seeing what the circumstances seem to be, there >is a real debate as to whether there was some >level of murder involved
So do you not believe the eyewitness testimony that Martin had Zimmerman on his back on the ground, or do you have another explanation for how Zimmerman ended up with grass stains on his back, according to the police report? Based on that, murder seems possible as an outcome only if Zimmerman got out of his truck to threaten Martin.
The problem is that Zimmerman unquestionably behaved inappropriately in some fashion. He followed Martin after the 9-1-1 dispatcher told him not to, and he got out of his car for some reason. All of that indicates that Zimmerman provoked whatever happened. But that's not sufficient for murder.
There's also been a lot of false information spewed out by Martin's parents lawyers (the two-shot theory, and perhaps even the idea that it was Martin yelling for help instead of Zimmerman), which has poisoned the public debate. Now we hear that the parents intend to sue the homeowners' association, which makes it look like they're just looking for a "payday," not justice or even answers.
At the rate that this has turned into a three-ring circus, complete with an appearance by MC Barack Obama, I seriously doubt that there will ever be a definitive answer as to what happened. The problem in cases like this is that there are reasons that the police might not want to reveal everything that they know happened (for example, so that they can check the credibility of persons who claimed to have witnessed or overheard the events), but there are no such restraints on making up and publicizing your own theories.
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