Well the media circus known as the George Zimmerman trial began warming up this week in central Florida with jury selection, which according to news reports is going to take around two weeks to complete. Seems like a long time when they are only looking for eight people, six for the actual jury and two alternates. Seems like with such a high profile case that they would choose more than two alternates, because they often have trouble with jurors when the trial is under such intense media scrutiny. Even though people will say they don’t care about the case almost everyone has an opinion about it, and living in the bible belt of the Florida panhandle you have to be careful who you bring up the subject around. I have friends and relatives who will jump up and down at the mention of the name Trayvon Martin, saying that N-word deserved to be shot and George Zimmerman was a decent hard working american defending himself. It’s kinda sad that they are bringing up Trayvon Martin’s use of marijuana as proof that he was a bad kid, which is ridiculous because what teenage kid in America hasn’t experimented with marijuana at least once? Trayvon Marton was no angel for sure but he surely didn’t deserve to die, I think overall it was just a screwed up situation for both parties. I do believe it is serious overkill to be charging George Zimmerman with second degree murder, because I don’t think he was looking to kill Trayvon Martin. However he did go looking for trouble and it he found it, the 911 operator told him specifically to not go confront the kid and let the police handle it. I believe that George Zimmerman is guilty of some degree of manslaughter and nothing more, because no matter what his intentions were in the end he shot an unarmed man. He claims that he felt his life was in danger but truthfully all he was likely to get was a good ass beating from Trayvon Martin, which is the risk you take when you sign up to be a wannabe cop. When you are in involved in such a situation it is wise to follow the advice of the authorities, and I bet George Zimmerman is sitting in his cell everyday wishing he had done so now. Plus he could have easily taken down Trayvon Martin with a taser, why didn’t he have one of those on him? If George had tasered Trayvon we wouldn’t even be talking about this case now, as the worst that would happen would be some sort of assault charge. George Zimmerman was simply one of these crazy neighborhood watch guys trying to play cop, which was something he as aspiring to be. Well now he is going to know what it feels like to be a cop in prison, because he certainly is not going to be treated well by the other inmates if he is found guilty.
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