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Originally Posted by nik-
This is exactly it. The counter of "Martin jumped him after" doesn't absolve him in my eyes. He initiated, and ended up shooting someone. That deserves jail to me.
I feel that when you initiate a confrontation, the self-defense justification goes out the window. If Martin had opened his passenger door, jumped in and started pounding on him, that would be a totally different story.
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True. And I am not saying that Zimmerman deserved to get the beat down, but if I was approached by some neighbourhood watch vigilante and questioned about my purpose for being there, I think I would feel a little bit of rage. I know I can control it, but if it happened all the time, I think eventuallly there could be a straw that breaks the camel's back. I don't know that it did happen a lot, but racism is real and I wouldn't doubt it if Martin had experienced this before.
To turn it around on the average middle aged white guy, there was a story in the paper a few years ago about a an older white male who went to the park on a nice day to relax. He was confronted by women there with kids because they thought it was suspicious that he was there by himself, without kids and wearing sunglasses. They assumed on his profile that he was probably a pedo and made him so uncomfortable he left.
To me, that is no different than what Zimmerman and his fellow nighbourhood watch losers do. Eventually, someone was bound to knock him out.