Shot for getting skittles

By mass, he's more like 94 percent. Depending on how much of a stump there is.

But since Zimmerman is Hispanic couldn't the racist charge still be made?..I know clearly if he did kill a White kid no one would be giving it any attention in fact the Sharpton's and Jackson's would probably be siding with the Hispanic Zimmerman if demands were made to arrest him for shooting a White kid.

Yours is post 2012!

I was going to say something...374 posts ago...

Will that make it the longest thread in WF history?

I think he was out of the truck when the operator told him that he didn't need to follow.

I'm of the opinion that Zimmerman will skate on all of this. The earlier Orlando Sentinel story mentioned "There is about a one-minute gap during which police say they're not sure what happened." Zimmerman can come up with all the inconsistent stories he wants and they won't prosecute.

Since we've exhausted the "Trayvon Martin as aggressor" angle lets go back to a much more likely scenario: Zimmerman knew the cops were on the way and attempted to physically detain Martin because "these assholes always get away."

Sad, but true. Looks like the police won't prosecute.

It's not the police who make the call to prosecute or not. Two thousand posts and you still don't understand something that fucking simple.

His story has been consistent from the moment the police showed up.

It's been consistent in all his interviews and in all his reenactments where he went with police to the scene and showed them what happened.

If his story was inconsistent he would have been in trouble.

The likelihood of that is 100%. The police never prosecute, nor do they have the right to do so. That's what we have the judicial system for.

Actually the executive prosecutes. The judicial decides.

Looks to me like Zimmerman wouldn't be ignored. Looks to me like Zimmerman wasn't in the right frame of mind and he ended up picking a fight. Martin had every right to defend himself against some stranger chasing after him and yelling at him.

I have never pretended to keep up with this behemoth of a thread, but did anyone ever bring up the fact that Zimmerman is a registered Democrat?

I didn't realize you were there to see it.

I am unfamiliar with any case where any person shot an unarmed person, claimed self-defense and the police did the sort of seemingly poor investigation they did here. (i.e. where there are allegations of police investigators trying to steer witnesses toward a self-defense theory, of police investigators not fully interviewing witnesses, where detectives apparently don't take blood for tests on the shooter, etc.)

The story about the lead investigator supposedly wanting charges brought against Zimmerman because he found Zimmerman's accounts inconsistent is an interesting twist.

If it is true, it raises more questions about why charges were not brought, what the inconsistencies were, etc.

Well then they should execute him.

Yes.

But it is irrelevant.

Oh please. Don't you dare talk down to me about being intellectually dishonest while holding up a few pictures and snippets from Facebook and Twitter like it's some kind of evidence of something.

If only Martin had his screwdriver with him, he would have gotten away with murdering and mugging Zimmerman.

I notice you just sort gloss right over the unexplained jewelry and screwdriver. Why is that? Your steadfast refusal to even entertain the idea that Martin may have been at fault, is completely irrational.

If that's the case. Then explain to me how the confrontation took place in this area.



As opposed to this area?



We know from Zimmerman's 911 that Martin had run and that Zimmerman had lost contact with him. We know from Martin's girlfriends statements that he was walking fast south towards home. How did the two end up in a confrontation in almost the exact same area where the "pursuit" began?

He was protecting his grillz.

No, I just recognize it as a separate, unrelated issue that has no bearing on Martin having been hunted down and killed by a vigilante. I also just can't see a kid who was earlier trying to get away turning around and picking a fight, primarily because there are too many other inconsistencies with Zimmerman's claims. I have to admit I could ask the same about your steadfast refusal to acknowledge Martin's right to defend himself, though.

"Martin having been hunted down and killed by a vigilante" has no bearing on anything, especially reality.

Rest in peace, IceTray. Taste the rainbow.

You can try to gloss over it, but as far as I'm concerned, that's what happened. Zimmerman wanted to be the big man and deal out some justice, even if gunning him down wasn't originally what he had in mind.

You're basically admitting that your stance has no basis in reality or in fact. It's based on pure unreasoning prejudice and emotion.

I was counting his head as 1/5