I’m not happy with the Zimmerman outcome. I’ll come out and say that I just don’t understand why some asshat can get away with murdering someone else because he “suspected” that they were up to no good. I’ll leave race out of my explanation.
The facts that I care about. Zimmerman was following a “suspicious” person. Zimmerman called 911 and the operator advised him not to follow, he chose to ignore that advise. That’s my first problem. I’ve been in situations before where suspicious people were knocking on all of my neighbors door. They looked like they were selling something, but usually door to door salespeople avoid doing so at night. It looks creepy. I carry a CHL, and one of these people tried to follow me to my garage, I told them to back off. I was loud, and firm, and they backed off. I then called 911, from inside my house, and warned my neighbors. These people were robbing houses in the area, and they got picked up. Total wait time, 5 minutes. Why did I not shoot them? Mainly because I don’t want to kill anyone, but mostly because I didn’t know if they were armed as well, and it was dark, anything could happen that would result in a tragic accident. It was common sense, and if I want to play hero, I’ll go volunteer at the food bank.
Second issue, people saying that “Travon was a thug and deserved it”. He was a kid. He may have skipped class, gotten expelled for non-violent reasons, he may have smoked pot. I don’t care. Hell, he could have sacrificed children to Satan, that’s not the point. The point is he was walking home that night, with skittles. Zimmerman is just a regular, annoying,person. He didn’t have a report on Travon’s activities. He’s not a detective, he’s an asshole that just needed to call 911 and back the fuck off. It wasn’t his job to follow anyone, and it sure as hell wasn’t his job to shoot anyone. That’s why we pay for police, and we make sure they are trained.
Seriously, bite me if you think anyone deserves to die. The same people saying that Travon deserved to be dead are the same assholes pushing abortion restrictions on women. You hypocrites can just go to hell.