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Originally Posted by thebigmole
You have no idea who threw the "first punch" it could very well be that Trayvon was acting in his own defense, against someone harassing him for no reason. The whole point is that you don't know what happened, so because Trayvon has also not been proven guilty of anything he is technically an innocent person, who is now dead.
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True, technically you don't know who instigated it, but Zimmerman was
bleeding from the face and back of the head, (police report btw) and Trayvon wasn't. Hence, why its evidence supporting Zimmermans story, which contributed to the police letting him go, but not enough to let him slide past the grand jury. But even if he put his hands on the kid, Trayvon is the one who escalated it into a brawl.
And I love how people in this story are saying "Trayvon was innocent of those claims until proven guilty". How about Zimmerman?
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Originally Posted by Dr.Bobby
Sounds like you're justifying murder here, Caliber...even if Trayvon responded to an unprovoked confrontation by a stranger by becoming defensive (or even belligerent), that doesn't qualify as menacing..surely not worthy of deadly force, yes? So what exactly are you defending here?
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Not justifying murder, I just don't like malicious prosecutions and mob mentality brought on by people who listen to Al Sharpton. And pinning someone to the ground while wailing on them is not becoming "defensive", it's becoming violent.
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Originally Posted by TigerTank77
Guess how much media coverage that's going to get? None.
Doesn't mean it should happen. It SHOULDN'T, but it does.
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How about the 13 year old who was set on fire by a group of older black teens for being white? Of course that story wasn't "mainstream", because the victim wasn't black, and the teens weren't white.