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Targetpractice12/04/2012 10:26:59 am PST

re: #720 Political Atheist

It’s too bad your look at this is being taken as some loving respect for GZ rather than a clinical look at evidence

Too many are unwilling to bring any objective dispassion to Trayvons actions. It does not matter if Trayvon started a fistfight that scared GZ to the bone marrow because he got out of his truck. Since Trayvon died, he can not morally be thought or spoken as doing anything wrong at all, especially breaking GZ’s nose.

Whether Fl law or the jury sees it like that remains to be seen. But many are so outraged at the death Trayvon gets a pass on his actions whatever they were. But a jury will likely have to consider matters unwelcome here today.

Indeed, see also the outrage at the defense’s efforts to get access to Trayvon’s school records and other elements of his background. It’s being characterized as “smearing,” as an attempt by the defense to destroy him to protect Zimmerman. But if one wants to understand motivations and actions that evening, then understanding the participants is necessary. If you can’t accept that Trayvon was not as pure as the driven snow, then the prosecution of George Zimmerman is little better than vigilante justice.