Guilty or not guilty?

Political trial?

Wannabe cop or concerned citizen?

Who was on top?

Other way round would people care?

Anyone else following this trial?

Thoughts?

Guilty, but not enough evidence for a competent jury to find him guilty of 2nd degree. I think he walks.

The arrest was political, no opinion on the trial really.

Wannabe Cop.

Zimmerman, kid was dead before he ever got off of him imo.

I think the public would care less, but the justice system would be all over a black youth killing a grown 'defenseless' hispanic.

Not really following, but interested.

he won stand your ground  he doing his job ,, kid was bad seed sorry about but at the time of night looking buying guns and weed what found  text ing on his cell.. if you watching your town in  his shoe and some  you say ya what you doing and some not replying to you and then walk to find out wtf going on ,, then kid comming to fight you hell ya i shoot his ass stand your ground zimmerman head was bashed in ,, kid was wanna be gangster or what ever it over  he won,, 

he won stand your ground  he doing his job ,, kid was bad seed sorry about but at the time of night looking buying guns and weed what found  text ing on his cell.. if you watching your town in  his shoe and some  you say ya what you doing and some not replying to you and then walk to find out wtf going on ,, then kid comming to fight you hell ya i shoot his ass stand your ground zimmerman head was bashed in ,, kid was wanna be gangster or what ever it over  he won,, 

It truly scares me that people like you have legal access to firearms.

Applauds Cav for the last bit.

I have a bit of a split view on it. On one side of it I don't believe a neighborhood watch member should have been packing a gun. Mace, maybe. Neighborhood watches job is to observe and report, not go Wyatt Earp (For less intelligent folks Google the name). 

HOWEVER I do believe that anyone whom carried a weapon and was in his situation and felt that potentially their life and safety could be threatened (Zimmerman could fight like a woman for all we know) would do whatever it meant to survive. Its instict. 

If this was a black man whom shot a white man ir a latino man or an asian would not the NAACP be crying racial profiling amd saying the black man had defendef himself and was being racially profiled for saying he was a murderer for defending his life when he felt threatened, he was even carrying legally!

You see where the double standard would be ;)

We didn't riot when OJ got away with brutally slashing two white folks and the only people trying to make this about black and white is the news/government yes ones controlled by the other to further push support for gun bans by creating tension and black people whom are ignorant and don't realize the mans Hispanic....

I didn't watch the trial because I felt it wouldn't of been justified from the gecko but I'll share this; It's weird how Paula Deen got into more trouble for saying the "N" word than Zimmerman did for murdering an innocent black kid..

Because Paula used a racial slur towards a specific race where as this HISPANIC man was defending himself against an african american. If it'd been an african american doing it to an Hispanic it'd never been a national headline nor would people be throwing racial interests into it..

I know he's hispanic, no need for the EMPHASIS :p he also has a jewish background. Race has nothing to do with this honestly, if so wouldn't it be a hate crime? 

That's kind of the light they're trying to shine on it don't you think?

I didn't watch the trial because I felt it wouldn't of been justified

But aye,  nothing we can really do now. I doubt Double Jeopardy can come into play. 

As much as I speculate the case and things don't add up, not guilty means not guilty, even though I know it won't be taken that way on the streets. It's a good idea that Zimmerman's going into protective custody. I wouldn't give him a week out in the open.

What irritates me the most are the utter morons trying to depict Zimmerman as some sort of 5 o'clock hero. His best case scenario, if everything happened the way his defence claim, is that he followed a teenager (out of purely great and good reasons, naturally) and was then beaten to the point of needed to use a firearm to defend himself. Against a 17 year old boy.

a 17 year old who was a 6 football american footballer with a history of fighting. he was some little pussy whod never got into trouble. he could handle himself. and he wasnt unarmed. he had his fists and the concrete floor.

Public protests and marches in Oakland, CA btw after the verdict. My opinion, Harassment turned aggravated assault turned justified self-defense. It could've been avoided but wasn't.

No such thing as 'justified self defense' when the 'defender' has a firearm , and the 'attacker' doesn't.  Zimmerman had no business following this kid, talking to him, or attempting to stop him from something as simple as walking home.

The courts did not do TM any justice, but, just as I predicted Zimmerman would walk, I also predict he will have justice served upon him in the form of a bullet to the head.

Ugh, its everywhere why cant people just leave the case alone. The case was a lost cause in the beginning. The Internet is for people that want to get away from this drama x.x

Don't make the conscious decision to enter into a thread and then bash the thread because it exists.  You don't want to hear about the Zimmerman case, don't enter the thread.  Easy.  

Now...on to my opinion...

This case was bungled from the beginning.  The police were disinterested and the original prosecutor's office was disinterested.  

All I can say is - a child was walking home with an iced tea and some skittles.  It was raining out so he had his hood up on his sweatshirt.  And because of that, he is dead.  Regardless of what the law says is right or wrong, a child is dead because he was walking home.  That's all I know.  I haven't researched the 'stand your ground' statutes and I didn't watch the trial.  But I do know this too: one person had the last clear opportunity to avoid the confrontation and that was Zimmerman when he was told by the police that they didn't need him to follow Trayvon.