A younger, more athletic 17 year old with a head start shouldn't have much trouble outrunning a stocky (or possibly overweight) 28 year old. Zimmerman then claims to have lost sight of Martin. So, if this is right, when Zimmerman begins following Martin on foot, Martin has a head start. On Zimmerman's 911 call, there is a beep right after Zimmerman reports that Martin is running. In the security camera picture, he looks like a bowling ball. Zimmerman is 28 yrs old, 5'9 and 170-200 lbs. In his recent pictures, he looks relatively athletic. Here's one: If George Zimmerman did chase Trayvon Martin, would he have been able to catch him? Martin was 17 yrs old, 6'0-6'3 and between 140-160 lbs. So I've been trying to stick to asking questions about things that don't seem to add up. Like anyone outside of a few people investigating this crime, I don't have enough information to determine what happened. They'll all have to pay in the civil case to come. And so is the whole community which signed on to this kind of neighborhood watch. He is responsible for whatever transpired. Zimmerman was negligent in the extreme as the initial investigator concluded. He thinks the forensics evidence is crucial in this case.īut there is no forensics evidence in this case without sadistic and racist vigilante activities of an incompetent neighborhood watchman. I find it very sad that Piers Morgan simply cannot see what is wrong here from the perspective of black Americans. What the judicial system has to make clear to all Americans is that there is no right to follow in a menacing way a black boy or man and then use his fearful reaction as an excuse to take his life. Many black Americans have been killed by people who thought they were out of place.īut Zimmerman created this whole situation and scared an innocent black boy. Zimmerman replied not by identifying himself as neighborhood watch but by aggressively asking Trayvon what he was doing in the neighborhood. Trayvon reasonably asked why he was following him. We know from the phone call that Zimmerman did not identify himself before the scuffle began. No other conclusion would in fact have been reasonable. He may have thought his life was in danger. The boy may have been scared to find Zimmerman out of the car and following him. The question of what happened is secondary to the question of why what happened happened.īecause Zimmerman followed a young black boy in a truck, scared the heck out of him, and then pursued him on foot. This sort of thing should be easier now that flash mobs can be assembled with cell phones, but maybe there just doesn't exist the critical mass of smart-ish, highly intuitive, and highly impulsive people with the ability to get a city-wide riot off the ground. Maybe there aren't enough people with the motivation, chrisma, and other capacities that are necessary to organize and incite riots. Is it aptrapriope to praise the entire black community in America for its restraint? Why aren't black people rioting? Why haven't there been any Rodney King-scale riots since Rodney King? What kind of incident would it take to make black people riot? Is it harder for black people to riot due to factors external to their community, like stronger police forces? Is it harder to get riots started due to factors within black communities? For example, maybe Charles Murray's theory about more efficient sorting by IQ is bringing all the halfway smart mover-and-shaker types out of ghettos and into the middle class where they would loose their good jobs if they started rioting. It is indeed aptrapriope to praise Trayvon's mother for her empathy. I love all people and would never write off an entire race as a result of uneducated comments like yours but people like you make white people in general look really really bad.and I think that's sad for the ones who aren't like you, that you open your mouth with foolishness and it's viewed as a representation of your race. Jenny I'm sure you are one of those white people who feel that the good Christian values of the kkk and David duke are the inbred standards that you raise your family by. But while we're labeling we're u aware that Zimmerman was arrested for assaulting an officer and beating his wife/girlfriend in the same year? That man was a violent bully. What exactly made Trayvon a thug and not a child? Was it the skittles or the tea? How do you know when those pics were taken of that 17 year old? Do you know him personally to make that determination?Last time I checked 17 was still a child.
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People like you and Zimmerman are exactly why this is such a big deal. Jenny u are a perfect example of a racists.