I am USA. I am USMC. I am NRA. I still feel George did wrong. Am I the ONLY one here that feels this way?
He put himself in a position in which he wanted a confrontation. He got more than he ever thought, with someone attacking him, pushing him to the ground and beating him up that all he thought of was shooting the guy to get him off. He is to blame for the confrontation, but the prosecutors chose to go after him with second degree murder instead of involuntary manslaughter. Dumb move.
Zimmerman's team put on a good defense, showing a ton of inconsistencies, especially when Treyvon's own father told a detective that it wasn't his son doing the screaming. That created a huge reasonable doubt on many people, including the jury (6 women - 5 white, 1 minority). What else did? The judge, by questions Zimmerman, adding manslaughter at the last minute, and being so biased against the defense even the jury could see it.
Too much reasonable doubt. Yes, both are to blame for this (George especially), but not enough to convict on the charges that the defense wanted. The police out there knew it was a weak case. Obama and his cronies, by forcing them to prosecute on the wrong charges, has now cause race relations in our country to be worst off than in a long time (and someone this is between whites and blacks, when Zimmerman was Hispanic is still amazing to me).
No, this verdict doesn't make me happy. It is what it is. The facts were in, reasonable doubt was cast, and a majority of the people think it was the only verdict that a fair jury who actually listened the case, asked for the rules of the law, and heard the testimony each and every day. Many of the people screaming 'no justice' have never listened to one testimony, figured out what exactly the law was in Florida, and what exactly the prosecutors asked for, and what it meant. All they listened to were the analysis and biased opinions of their favorite tv channel or anchor or what they wanted to believe.
