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Originally Posted by Duck Butter
This is what I have gathered as well. He wasn't necessarily looking for trouble, but he found it and kept trying to push the issue. If he was looking for trouble, he surely found it and got his azz whipped by a skinny teenager. That should have been the end of it, other than an assault charge on Trayvon (had he lived). Zimmerman would have learned his lesson right then and there. I don't think Zimmerman did anything illegal but he is teetering on that line. The 'Stand Your Ground' law I am fine with, but I can not see where Zimmerman was protecting his life, he was just getting a serious azz whooping is all, not going to die. He was a wannabe tough guy carrying a gun around and he found out quick he wasn't as tough as he thought. However, I was not there and neither was anyone else so....
Bad situation all around
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No dog in the fight here but, if I had someone mounted on me beating my head against the concrete, with no indication as to when they'd stop(beat to sleep or, beat to death), I would have done the same thing. Who's to say he would have stopped? Who's to say Zimmerman went too far? Who knows really?
To me, by following him and, being on the phone with police, he was being effective in the idea of being a neighborhood watch. Did he have to get out of the vehicle? No. Was he taunted by some mouthy azz punk? I don't know.
Regardless, even if acquitted, he'll be shredded in the civil court. He'll be broke. He'll live the rest of his life in hiding.