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Originally Posted by redwitch
He was NOT working at the time of the Martin incident. He was on his way to the store when he spotted someone "suspicious" (profiling, yes, but reasonable profiling given previous incidents which had occurred). However, he brought this on himself when he followed Martin, denied following Martin to his face and walking away without ever explaining who he was and what was going on. You had two macho young men high on adrenaline, one of whom happened to have a gun and the other willing to use his fists. Not quite a fair matchup and the outcome was what it was.
Does Zimmerman deserve to have his life destroyed for poor judgment? Probably not but he also doesn't deserve any great sympathy, either. Most of his post-Martin incidents would be absolute non-news had he not shot a young man. However, Zimmerman did do the deed and now continues to act out in ways not conducive to keeping him out of the limelight.
When you get right down to it, we Florida residents are being victimized by Zimmerman. We paid for the trial in which Zimmerman was found innocent. We will pay for his defense in the latest domestic dispute incident. The negative publicity has hurt Florida by keeping some tourists away. Zimmerman needs to hitch up his big boy pants and move on after taking a good, long, hard look at himself and work on seriously changing his attitude and his life.
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I was never a fan of either George Zimmerman nor Trayvon Martin and you captured my own feelings towards this two men. I did agree with the jury that there was not enough evidence to convict Zimmerman of manslaughter but it sure looked like there was more evidence than not that he did it intentionally. That is provoked Trayvon Martin by trying to play John Wayne.
There were movements for tourists to boycott Florida because of the Trayvon Martin case. Pretty much brought about by politicians using this tragedy for their own agendas with often little regard to the facts or even for allowing the facts to come out in this matter.
I really do not see George Zimmerman as losing his way because of this. It seems the opposite is true that he has become even more of a hothead and has quite a bit of hubris because he got away with it with the jury and SOME of the media.