does landing the first punch = throwing the first punch?
I can swing at you 5 times and miss, and you can plug me in the nose to settle me down. Did you start that fight?
It does, in this case, if there's no evidence to the contrary.
I'm not dealing with hypothetical scenarios. I'm deaing with the evidence as it currently stands.
NOBODY has been able to prove that Zimmerman attacked Martin. All we've heard is, "He should have stayed in his truck"; "He shouldn't be profiling him". etc.
But to quote Chris Rock,
"When I go to the money machine tonight, I'm not looking over my back for the media; I'm lookin for N-----As!!"Last time I checked, getting out of your truck/following someone on foot (especially if you're neighborhood watch) is NOT a crime; neither is "profiling" that someone, especially when your neighborhood has been hit 7 times in a year by young black males. Punching someone in the nose and whacking his head on the concrete ARE crimes.
Martin wasn't the sweet cuddly black boy Sharpton, Jackson, that goof congresswoman with the cowboy hat (Brown), and others made him out to be. He was with his daddy because he got kicked out of school (again), and his momma shipped him to Sanford.
Instead, he was a "No Limit N-----A", with a history of getting into fights and robbing folks. Zimmerman reported that Martin looked to be on drugs; he was right. Weed was found in Martin's system.
And now there's word that "the iced tea and bag of Skittles" may not have really been for his brother (which is really the son of his father's girlfrend) but a part of a recipe to make some "purple drank".
It appears he crossed the wrong "creepy @$$ cracker" (who's really Hispanic) and got pumped full of lead, for his efforts. For some reason, I don't think that the race-baiting ignorant Negroes are going to head to the barrios and mess with the Latins, if Zimmerman walks.