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Revisit the Fifth Amendment; you have the right to refuse to answer a police officer, much less a self-appointed Neighborhood Watch "captain."
Did Zimmerman act within the law? Not according to the two co-sponsors
who drafted the SYG legislation in Florida.
Co-sponsors aren't judges. You're arguing over meaningless points.
Hypothetically, if Trayvon stopped to ask Zimmerman why he was following him and Zimmerman (a total stranger) tried to restrain the young man, Trayvon had no right to defend himself? You would have meekly followed Zimmerman to who knows where? Many young women meekly
followed Ted Bundy, and didn't live to tell why. Would you advise your children to stay with a stranger who's stopped them, or asked for their help in looking for a lost puppy? That goes against all that we know about stalkers, pedophiles and serial killers. If Trayvon died defending himself, it's "good that he's dead?" That's simply wrong.
There is no evidence that Zimmerman tried to restrain Trayvon, none at all. Your opinions must be really weak if you have to make things up to substantiate them.
You probably shouldn't respond as FU or be confrontational at all. You eitehr keep walking, answer if you want, or start a big deal over nothing and see what happens. Last time I was in a seedy area and asked what I was doing there, I knew better than to have an attitude back.
Apparently it did not do Trayvon any good either way
The crux is that you can't just kill someone without at least explicitly explaining why you felt your life was in danger. That's the one explanation that must be answered.
Martin was sitting on his chest beating him according to the eye witness. That sounds like justification to me.
I am an elderly great grandmother and I wear a jacket with a "hoodie" that I often use when it is windy or rainy. How strange to realize that in the little minds of some that would convert me into a "thug." How shallow must be the perception of those who truly believe they can define a person's character by the clothes they wear.
I must be a "thug," too, then because I'm sitting here with a hoodie on at this very moment.
I wear them all winter long.
My 16-year-old honor roll, pep band playing, church group attending, cross country running kid must be a "thug," too.
One witness did see part of the altercation and corraborated Zimmerman's statements regarding it. See the news story that I linked to previously in this thread.
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