A man with no authority, blamed a young man of some crime.
Against the wishes of the police department, and with vivid racial epithets which proved animus, he followed and harassed an innocent party.
In the face of this young man, he got out of his car, which no prudent individual would do, leading to a fight between two men of roughly equal age and size.
That fight was on grass, a benign arena, several feet from concrete.
The assumption is that no serious injury was likely, and the fight was like hundreds of others that take place in every city, and every night.
During that fight, Zimmerman wore a pistol in an inside-pants-holster, behind his back, covered by his shirt-tail and jacket.
[Probably in a panic], Zimmerman pulled out his pistol, without sufficient reason, and which no prudent person would do, and killed his opponent.
There was animus shown, and irresponsibility using a gun, leading to the murder of an innocent boy, demanding a verdict of second degree murder.
"I am angry that George Zimmerman could chase a teenager through his neighborhood, ignore a dispatchers pleas, make racially charged statements, provoke a confrontation with a young man armed only with Skittles, and pull the trigger that ended that teenagers life, only to walk away without as much as a misdemeanor attached to his name. But I also know that the laws of Florida favored the defense, that the prosecution overreached in its efforts to convict Zimmerman on a second-degree murder charge, and that we will never know which man was screaming for help in the moments that George Zimmerman killed Trayvon Martin. I also know that it is a fools errand to second-guess the conclusions of a jury that sat through countless hours of testimony and evidence before reaching a verdict."
"But that doesnt mean I cant draw my own personal conclusions, like my belief that George Zimmerman is a racist idiot who chased an unarmed teenager through a neighborhood for little reason more than he was a black man wearing a hoodie. I can also conclude that many conservative commentators were offensive in their reflexive defense of Zimmerman, as well as their efforts to attack the integrity of a dead black teenager. I am also not sure how it is that the right-wings professional chattering classes usually find themselves on the other side of African-Americans in racially sensitive cases."
Two above quotes from conservative Joe Scarborough.
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