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Zimmerman walks free for shooting an unarmed teenager who he stalked and this woman should go to jail? Looks like she had to kill her husband and walk free.

• rjbwork 13y ago
  There's clearly some various biases going on here. In an ideal world Zimmerman would be in jail for a long time and this woman would be doing community service or something. EDIT: I'm actually rescinding my comment here. I don't honestly know enough about the Zimmerman case to say he should be in jail for a long time. I haven't been following it at all, but I just read an article/long thread, and it would seem that the guy he killed physically assaulted him before Zimmerman shot.
  • lukifer 13y ago
    While acknowledging that none of us were in the courtroom, I think the evidence that Martin attacked Zimmerman is pretty scant.
    • wikiburner 13y ago
      I'm sorry? The standard is reasonable doubt. There was absolutely no evidence to suggest that Zimmerman initiated (or even participated in) the "fight". Zimmerman had a fractured nose, a bruised face, and gashes on the back of his head. His sworn statement was that he was knocked down out of the blue by Trayvon Martin with the punch that broke his nose. He passed a polygraph, and was "visibly relieved" (according to the interrogating officer) when the police falsely told him in interrogation that the whole incident was caught on videotape. The only injuries to Trayvon Martin were bruising on his knuckles from throwing punches, as he straddled Martin and "rained blows upon him MMA style" (according to the main witness and ballistics expert). We don't have definitive evidence of Zimmerman's account (a surveillance tape or multiple eyewitnesses who saw the entire incident) but what evidence there is strongly indicates that Zimmerman's account was accurate.