For those "Justifying"Zimmerman's actions: When in this country does it become a OKAY

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for one person-regardless of sex, color, age etc-to be killed simply because he walked down a FUCKIN public street?!


Trayvon was minding his own business. He was walking to a home HE HAD EVERY RIGHT TO GO TO! He didn't say one word to Zimmerman UNTIL ZIMMERMAN started following him! He didn't know who Zimmerman was all he knew was that Zimmerman was FOLLOWING HIM! For all we know Trayvon might have been frighten this man was going to attack him or kidnap him or anything like that!


Facts are Zimmerman followed Trayvon NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND.

[MADem]

1. I'm not seeing a ton of people justifying that asshole's conduct.

They very few that are challenging the overriding sentiment here are getting smacked around pretty smartly.

[X_Digger]

3. *nod* I've alerted on more than one Trolly McTrolls in the last 24h and seen them PPR'd. n/t

[arthritisR_US]

6. psst...

What is PPR'd?

[chrisa]

7. Posting Privileges Revoked

A.K.A Tombstoned, Pizza'd, Eating the Granite Cookie

[arthritisR_US]

12. Oh wow, thanks. *tippy toeing away*

[UnrepentantLiberal]

23. Me too.

I'll have to go check if my 5 post Zimmerman fan has been PPRed. The subject has got the cave dwellers good and turned on.

[teddy51]

2. Absolute K&R. n/t

[freshwest]

4. For all those who've died for being thought different, when they really weren't, were they?

[teddy51]

8. No they were not, and you can't bring them back! n/t

[MrMickeysMom]

5. Give me 5 minutes with the next fuck who tries to say that...

Witless shits have no fucking clue what they are talking about.

[Logical]

10. So you want to beat them up? LOL......that is funny.

[MrMickeysMom]

15. virtually....

I can kick and recommend kicking, can't I?

[Logical]

17. True!

[seabeyond]

9. "Trayvon might have been frighten". pretty good evidence he WAS frightened. told person he was

talking to on the phone. tried to get away. tried to ditch him. he wasnt doing this cause he had something to hide, or he was doing something wrong. he was doing this cause he was afraid.

[surrealAmerican]

11. Was it a public street?

I thought this was a "gated community".

It doesn't change the fact that the kid had every right to be there, but it does raise the additional issue of whether towns ought to allow gating off areas that should be public.

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14. So in a gated community like this Zimmerman OWNED the streets that he could "Protect" his property?

Regardless if this was a "Gated" community IT IS STILL PUBLIC in the way People can be on that street to get to their home or People can travel that road to VISIT friends in that community.


What I am saying is that Trayvon WAS NOT sneeking around a house or window to give Zimmerman any reason for his actions HE was WALKING a STREET Used by THE PUBLIC.

[jeff47]

18. Gated communities can have public streets

The regulations about putting up a gate usually don't require that the streets become private. In fact, they're usually public so that the city/county/state have to pay for maintenance.

(Before people get too upset by that, the low traffic volume caused by the gate means the road needs far less maintenance)

[bowens43]

13. People here are justifying that murderers actions?!?!?

I haven't seen that.

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16. Here are some links:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=450632

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=452715

[gejohnston]

19. the first one

does not look like he is justifying anything, only questioning conventional wisdom of what happened. The other seems like he wants to get the full story before jumping on any band wagon.

[Honeycombe8]

22. I agree. Those posts don't justify Zimmerman's actions & clearly state that. nt

[yourout]

20. It was Murder.......period.

[Kennah]

24. Will probably end up as Voluntary Manslaughter in a plea

[gejohnston]

21. I have yet to find

anyone who is justifying Zimmerman's actions. A few questioning the media's accuracy, which is reasonable. Some want to wait and see the whole story, including what did not make the news.

Justifying? No. The guy who wrote and introduced the law thinks Zimmerman is guilty of murder.

[guitar man]

25. He'll get no justification from me

I'm as strong of a RKBA and self defense advocate as I can be and IMO Zimmerman was dead wrong to follow that kid and kill him like he did. I have NO use for vigilantes.

I lived in Lincoln County Oklahoma in the mid-80s when then Sheriff Ray McClain was running the county Sheriff's dept as a vigilante squad, way outside the law and witnessed first hand where that kind of thinking leads. The Feds FINALLY stepped in and sent the Sheriff and some of his deputies to prison ending their reign of terror.

I only hope the Feds will take an equally active role in Sanford FL. This bullshit must not be allowed to stand.