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Originally Posted by dillywho
I don't hate him, either. I just think that he made too many assumptions that night, took matters into his own hands, and it cost a kid his life when he was not in the commission of any crime.
Zimmerman's duty was to call in and report...period. When Zimmerman told the dispatcher that he lost sight of him, then he should have just left it up to the police from there and gone on to Target. The dispatcher had already told him the police were on the way. The dispatcher testified that he could not order him to do/not do anything and that 'not to follow' was advice. By that same token, Zimmerman was not obligated to try to keep Martin in sight because the dispatcher asked him what Martin was doing then. When he told the dispatcher which direction he last saw him going, that should have been the end of it. Let the police take it from there.
This is just the way I interpret what I have seen to date and I have been watching everyday.
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Hopefully, these are the thoughts the women on the jury are mulling over and asking themselves, do we want to give this loose cannon his gun back to go out and hunt down more people, as if they are animals, wondering if it could be their children or grandchildren. And then, after the killing, saying he has no remorse and the shooting was God's will.
If convicted, I hope the judge tells Zimmerman that it's God's will that he spend x number of years in jail. He will be in for some fun when his fellow prisoners find out he was convicted for killing an unarmed teenager.