Honestly, it seems like the media/government has purposely thrown fuel on this fire. Perhaps trying to ignite riots for some hidden agenda. There is an election coming up after all. Who knows what "the powers that be" have planned and what they want to spin out of this.
1. RIP Trayvon. So sad for someone so young to leave us so early.
2. But..... Stuff like this happens ALL THE TIME, ALL AROUND THE WORLD. There is absolutely NOTHING about this case that makes it special. People get shot every day. People get beaten to death all the time.
3. Zimmerman is half Latino, half Jewish(they say white, but Zimmerman is as Jewish as you can get). Media immediately portrayed him as evil racist white man. WTF?! It was so laughable. The first thing I said when I saw Zimmermans picture was "he isn't even white". A black friend of Zimmermans came out and said he never had any reason to believe Zimmerman was the least bit racist.
4. Pictures used of Trayvon are from when he was 13 years old, looking like an innocent child. Recent pictures of Trayvon (along with his twitter account) show he's a pretty big kid, who wanted to seem like a thug. He had also been suspended from school 3 times. Once for having a 'burglary tool'. A couple of his tweets were about hitting a bus driver, and telling his friend he hoped he punched someone. He obviously isn't the innocent little angel that he's been shown as on TV... and most likely was a typical 17 year old wannabe thug. We can thank hip hop for that. Picture used of Zimmerman is from when he was a depressed chunky 22 year old, not the professional, educated 28 year old that he is now. The guy had a white collar job and was attending college. I know the media wishes he was some redneck hillbilly bum, but that wasn't the case.
5. There had been numerous burglaries in the community recently, and Zimmerman was appointed to neighbourhood watch. Trayvon was walking around looking at houses in the dark. Exactly HOW he was looking around, we will never know. But it isn't out of the ordinary to think that Zimmerman had reasonable cause for suspicion. Perhaps young Tray was casing houses... or maybe he was dreaming of what kind of house he'd like to live in when he's older. We will never know for sure.
6. Do you really think Zimmerman would've called the police if he had planned on shooting someone a few minutes later? It doesn't make sense, and this tells me it was either a) self defense or b) he panicked and didn't want Trayvon to get away, so he shot him. Either way he wasn't "hunting Trayvon like an animal" as Trayvon's parents said to the media.
7. Atleast 2 witnesses have said they saw Trayvon on top of Zimmerman. Other witnesses have said they saw them "wrestling" but it was too dark to make anything out. First cop to respond to the scene says Zimmermans back was wet from being on the grass, which backs up the witness accounts. People get into scuffles ALL THE TIME and someone can end up getting shot out of self defence. If Trayvon was really on top of Zimmerman, Zimmerman had the legal right to self defence. Simple as that. The only question is, who STARTED the physical fight? Again we will never know and it can never be proven. It's not out of the realm of possibility that a 17 year old who is taller than the average man started the fight, in which case Zimmerman had every right to use self defence.
8. Obama speaking out was uncalled for. Spike Lee tweeting the wrong address was a complete joke. All these did was throw more fuel on the fire.
9. NBC was blatantly caught editing Zimmermans 911 phone call to make race seem like a bigger issue than it was. They edited it to sound like Zimmerman was saying something to the extent of "This guy looks really suspicious, he is a black male". In reality, Zimmerman said those 2 things is completely separate sentences. It was the phone operator who asked "What colour is the suspect?" and Zimmerman answered "he is a black male". Google this if you didn't already know it.
10. Publicly calling for Zimmermans arrest violates his civil right to DUE PROCESS. Isn't it hypocritical to violate someones civil right, and then complain about them breaking the law?
11. Zimmerman WAS arrested at the scene and taken to the police station. It isn't like they gave him a pat on the back and told him to go home and watch a movie. (Anytime you are put in handcuffs by the police, you are under arrest). He was not, however, held in custody as the police believed his story that he was acting under self defence. Judgement call.... maybe it was the right call, maybe it was wrong... we will never know.
12. The 911 responder never flat out said "Do NOT follow the suspect". The responder said "we don't need you to do that". Big difference. Zimmerman most likely followed him because he thought Trayvon was up to no good, and didn't want him to get away.
13. Zimmerman sounds scared on the 911 phone call, and he thinks Trayvon has a gun since he said "he's reaching in his waist band". Maybe Tray really did reach in his waistband as a way of trying to scare away Zimmerman, OR maybe Zimmerman made that up to get the police to get there faster and take his call more seriously. Either way, it's evident from his voice on the 911 call that he's scared when Trayvon was walking his direction. Trayvons girlfriend even said she overheard him saying "what you following me for?" to Zimmerman, and then the phone went dead. Is it unrealistic to think that perhaps Trayvon confronted Zimmerman in a thuggish way and started a physical fight? He's 6'3, Zimmerman was 5'10 I believe.
14. People say "would zimmerman have followed trayvon if he was white".... I say "would the media have given 2 shits about this story if Trayvon was white?" The answer is NO, because this story wouldn't have made the back page of the newspaper if Trayvon was white. The media were obviously trying to turn this into some Rodney King type of story, when that wasn't the case at all. If George Zimmerman was named Jorge Menendez, NOBODY would've given 2 shits about this story.
15. "Trayvon got shot because he's black" is LARGELY an *assumption* that's been thrown around like it's a fact. No one knows exactly what happened. He might've been shot because he was beating up a short out of shape chubby guy that had a gun.
CONCLUSION: Zimmerman may be guilty of being paranoid and hyper vigilante. Perhaps he used more force than necessary. But the fact is that there was an altercation, and he defended himself with a gun that he legally owned. This whole Trayvon uproar has been LARGELY created by the media.
