Let?s examine the undisputed evidence:
3. The man was told by the police not to chase and pursue the teen.
9. The teen was not committing any crime.
12. The man and the teen fought, wrestled to the ground, and punches were exchanged.
16. There is no evidence that the teen was committing a crime or about to commit any crime.
17. But for the man chasing and pursuing the teen, there would have been no physical confrontation.
20. But for the shot, the teen would be alive.
3. He was not told by police not to follow him. he was told by a dispatcher that they didn't need him to do that. Not only are you not required to follow orders from a dispatcher (who are rarely officers), that wasn't even a lawful order. We don't need you to do that.
9. He most certainly was. Assault is still a crime. If you doubt this, look at T-dawg's arrest record and you'll see he had every reason to be fully aware it was illegal.
12. No evidence punches were exchanged. Other than the gunshot, there were no wounds on T-dawg. There were no defensive wounds on zimzam. This was a one sided fight until the victim managed to get his gun out.
16. You probably only saw the doctored photos NBC put out. Zimzam was clearly assaulted. As I covered earlier, assault is a crime.
17. T-dawg was the first one to commit an illegal act. If you want to include perfectly legal acts in your root cause analysis, don't forget T's brother wanting skittles. In fact, how far back ya wanna go? If T-dawg hadn't been selling drugs, he wouldn't have been suspended and would not have been there that night.
20. you don't know that. If zimzam hadn't ended that thugs career that night, there's a good chance someone else would have killed him by now. Odds are T-dawg wasn't living more than 5 more years anyway unless he got out of the life.
And an opposing group will immediately take it to court for judicial review. You sleep through your civics class?
Yeah and the judge will rule they have no standing. the whole standing thing is utter bullshit.
Its summertime. I'm dubious that a school official would be worried about this or able to investigate it at all.
Legitimate question, with all these people threatening Zimmerman - if he goes free do the jurors need to fear for their lives as well? What kind of protection do you get?
I don't think they get any protection beyond that no one officially knows who they are. But their faces are not hidden in court, so anyone in the courtroom can ID them later. I was reading the justice for trayvon page earlier today, and they are apparently collecting as much information as they can on the jurors.
Yeah. Agree 100% It's what I'd do anyway. The victim deserves our full due diligence.
The victim deserves to not be put on trial like this, and police protection to protect him the people who put a price on his head.