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Powergamz1 -> RE: UNMODERATED ZIMMERMAN (7/21/2013 7:13:18 PM)
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I would agree that had the police rounded the corner, and seen Trayvon Martin standing over a dead Zimmerman, with only the survivor's version of events to go on, that the rule of law would have demanded the same process and Martin should have been acquitted on the limited facts in evidence.
MMA is a TV show, and a strip mall exercise class. In reality Martin could have been doing schoolyard 'sit on their chest and bloody their nose', or it could have been 52 Blocks.
I suspect that the witness used the label that came to mind for them, and it probably sufficed to communicate the picture in their memory to the jury. It did establish the significant point, that Zimmerman was on the bottom.
As far as Jesse Jackson goes, don't forget that he is also the one trying to peddle the 'Trayvon Martin was executed with a bullet to the back of his head' story.
As long as there is fear and loathing between the races, Jesse will continue getting paid for the only job he's ever held.
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ORIGINAL: angelikaJ
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These are snippets of thought:
First, I believe the prosecution over-charged George Zimmerman to begin with
I believe the jury reached the correct verdict under the rule of law.
I also believe that under that law had the outcome been different: had Trayvon Martin killed George Martin because he thought his life was in imminent danger, (after all, he was being pursued by an unknown man who was armed) the premise of self-defense should have been as equally plausible under the law.
Personally, I believe that would have been more easily understandable than this, for me.
I think that when the neighbor identified Trayvon hitting George's head into the pavement as a MMA move, that should have been stricken.
AFAIK, Trayvon did not have mixed martial arts training and the term was prejudicial.
I believe the juror who spoke on TV identified with Zimmerman.
She kept referring to him as George.
That is understandable.
Sadly, *most people have a fear of young black men on dark streets.
In the days following the verdict, Zimmerman's attorneys discussed, at length, how in America, justice is racially biased.
It is an issue that needs to be addressed, but this case was not the correct platform.
*Even Jesse Jackson said a few years ago, “There is nothing more painful to me … than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery, then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.” - See more at: http://theracecardproject.com/jesse-jackson-fears-black-youths-racism-2/#sthash.LncV6Pig.dpuf
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