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Originally Posted by Makarov
Well, in my defence, we do know for a fact that Zimmerman shot and killed an unarmed teenager. We also know that, barring some intervening tragedy, if Zimmerman hadn't been out patrolling the perimeter of his gated community with a loaded firearm, Trayvon Martin would still be alive.
Again, I'm not saying that these facts alone mean that Zimmerman was guilty of murder (or indeed any criminal offence). However, they are enough for my sympathies in this tragic story to lie with Martin, the dead child. I'm surprised that, for other posters, despite these few known facts, their sympathies lie with Zimmerman.
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Or...Zimmerman may be dead. We just can't know what 'would have' happened. That's the tragedy I see here. There are so many 'what if's' and variables, who knows what would have happened.
I look at the case, and I think that it sucks that someone's died, and another person is likely to go into hiding for the rest of his life. That's where my sympathies lie.