I wasn’t there.
I’m not a lawyer
so my opinion is just that – an opinion.
There’s a good article HERE that
addresses the limitations of our legal system and the laws that made this
verdict possible.
Like many, I am not
satisfied by the outcome of George Zimmerman’s trial. But since the entire case came down to
whether or not Zimmerman acted in self defense, it appears that the jury
rendered the only verdict possible.
If this were a story I
was writing, it would be a tragedy. It would be about a man who, because he had
a gun and fancied himself in a position of authority, put himself into a situation where things quickly spiraled out of
control.
It would be about a teenager, guilty of nothing more than Walking
While Black, whose anger at being accosted by a self-important, wannabe cop,
led him to go on the offensive rather than shuffling and grinning,
“Ain’t doin’ nothin’, boss,” and allowing himself to be pushed around because
of his race.
It would be a story about
how the man with the gun escaped a prison sentence but was doomed to spend the
rest of his life looking
over his shoulder, feeling the same sort of fear that Trayvon Martin must
have felt as that car continued to follow him down the dark streets. . .
