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"The actual tweet included his girlfriend’s name, her phone number, and her face. We’ve blacked them out to protect her identity. Mediaite cannot confirm whether the woman pictured was actually dating George Zimmerman, whether she actually cheated on him with a Muslim, or how clean said Muslim was or wasn’t."
i really hope so. What a disgusting human being.Ditkaless Wonders said:
Theoretically I defend his right to be a petty, hurtful idiot and to espouse hateful ideas and to incite passions when they are best cooled*, but I would advocate otherwise. I would advocate that rights do not have to be exercised. I would advocate that you have the right to not exercise a right. I would counsel that this is often the wise course.
Poorly written way of saying that regardless of what you think happened that day, pretty much everyone should be able to agree that his actions afterwards have shown him to be a total jerk off. Not that it doesn't matter but his actions standing alone from that event since then show him as a low life.
Granted I don't know him personally, but based on his actions as a complete tool and murderer that day, I pretty much had him pegged as a classless nutjob among other things before any of this nonsense. Coward, chump, stupid, tool, and racist also came to mind, these subsequent events are affirmation of the obvious.
Actually it does matter, because a lot of people's opinion on the events were based on character. There was certainly a lot of effort to paint Trayvon as a thug so people would be sympathetic to Zimmerman's story.
Again, I am saying whatever you believe about those circumstances- it should be clear to everyone that Zimmerman is scum now. I understand my first post was poorly written but I really don't think that this is a complicated perspective here to understand.
Chad, let me ask you this: if you knew in 2012 what you know in 2016, would your opinion of the Trayvon Martin shooting be exactly the same?
I don't think the prosecution made it's case and the facts of the case still favored him. But that said, absolutely how he has acted makes it harder to believe anything he says. The biggest thing that it changes for me is I no longer give him the benefit of the doubt of 'why' he made the decision to get out of the car but to me that never really impacted the case per the law.
I am not saying you and I appreciate your honesty in the post, but if there is a person that still doesnt believe that Zimmy provoked and instigated the fight with Martin then you probably have a difficult time tying your shoes
Damnit I was wrong it wasnt you. It was Carolina Hustler. Sorry man I had you confused.
Zimmerman was always known to be a piece of ####. But the facts showed Zimmerman was getting his ### whooped. Most people changed their minds and gave Zimmerman the benefit of the doubt because the narrative that was spun up by the activists and the media was shown to be false.
No they didn't. The only thing the facts showed was that we couldn't be absolutely sure Zimmerman wasn't lying. I would have acquitted him too. But don't twist it around now. I am probably 90% sure Zimmy brandished his weapon and Martin thought he was in the fight for his life. Everything he did prior and most certainly after the incident pretty much points to this
I think he has shown he has the personality of wanting to confront the Trayvon. Where as before I gave him the benefit of the doubt in the situation not being willing to assign motivation to getting out of the car. Now, you can still want to confront someone without intent to murder and I still don't think he had intent to kill. I think he has shown himself to be a hot head moron for sure and it does impact how I view the events. I remember one time when I caught some gang bangers in the act of graffiti my next door neighbors house. I didn't think about it- I reacted and bolted to catch them. Thankfully, I am old, fat and slow so they got away because after I thought about it and was wondering what the hell I would have done if I caught them (there were two but when I began the chase only saw one) and that was unarmed. So, putting myself in those shoes, I can see someone getting out of the car with no ill intent- even if it is not the best idea in the world.
I don't believe this. I think if Trayvon saw a gun, he would have ran. I think Zimmerman was emboldened because he had a gun up to the point he was getting his rear end kicked all over the place and then shot Trayvon at close range during the confrontation. It does not make sense for Trayvon to know he had a gun and there would still be a confrontation. Either Trayvon knew there was a gun and had two choices- run or stay put. One of those options is typically not 'try to fight the guy' with a gun.
So full of ####. There is zero percent chance that is how it went down. The screams, the witnesses, the phone calls all contradict your fantasy.
I've always believed that the guy without the gun generally runs away from the guy with the gun.
I think cop vs general person is different for some reason in some peoples minds.
