Holy fig'n cow, this thread has caused the bigots to crawl out of the woodwork. Carolina Jazz is nothing compared to the bigoted bile being spouted here.
I am very hard pressed to understand anything that would have justified the use of deadly force in this case. Whether Zimmerman is a racist or bigot, I don't know. I conclude, however, that he was an overzealous would be crime fighter who grossly overreacted to a non-threat and that the whole sorry affair was totally avoidable and totally the fault of Zimmerman who provoked a completely unnecessary fight that led to Martin's shooting and death.
I hope they arrest and prosecute him, and I hope they repeal the stupid Stand Your Ground law--a prime example of a solution to a non-existent problem driven by ideological irrational nonsense.
I fully support people's rights to defend themselves against aggression, even with deadly force if necessary. But after assessing the evidence, I conclude that this is NOT what happened in this case. It's a tragedy all around, but one that is the direct results of a series of very bad decisions made by Zimmerman for I'm not sure what reason. He is responsible and thus should be held responsible in a court of law. (I'm not saying he should necessarily be convicted but at the very least put on trial.) By the way, just to forestall the inevitable flaming by the resident bigots on this board, certain sponsors of the Stand Your Ground law also think that Zimmerman should be held accountable and that his actions were outside the specific intent of the law (as bad as the law is to begin with.)
