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Originally Posted by pj67coll
That may be true. But Martin was guilty of criminal activity (assault) and got shot for it. A tragedy maybe. But I fail to see why Martin would not be regarded as the bigger dumbass. In what universe should you be able to expect to assault someone with impunity?
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More mind reading. You're assuming that everything that Z said is the unvarnished truth. There is another scenario that is every bit as plausible.
Zimmerman behaved in a menacing manner to a youth who had not harmed or threatened him, even stalking him on foot while armed. He disregarded a police request to stand down and not pursue. GZ, in fact, went out of his way to place himself in a hostile stance such that TM feared for his safety. An armed man, who was not a police officer, was confronting him for uncertain reasons.
There is no witness testimony that doesn't begin earlier than the middle of the fight, other than TM's girlfriend. Her description of events rings true to me. SYG could very well offer TM as much right to defend himself as it supposedly did GZ.