Who are you more sympathetic towards, Trayvon Martin or George Zimmerman?

[hrmjustin]

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	Trayvon Martin
	30 (100%)
	George Zimmerman
	0 (0%)
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[ProdigalJunkMail]

1. which would you rather drink?

nice cool clean water or gravel?

do you really expect people to sympathize with Zimmerman?

sP

[hrmjustin]

4. Have you seen some of the posts here of late.

I have run into a few of his supporters.

[Control-Z]

8. Someone passed without voting.

Though it may be for reasons other than "undecided".

[NoGOPZone]

9. I don't expect it but I've noticed it nt

[chervilant]

13. I've seen a few who

think the verdict was correct. I have Republican acquaintances who feel Zimmerman feared for his life and "had to" defend himself.

But, I think the vast majority of us think Mr. Zimmerman killed an innocent, unarmed child.

[premium]

21. Even though I still think that Zimmerman was guilty

of Manslaughter, I believe that the jury reached the only verdict they could, the prosecution was so inept and couldn't prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt and if they couldn't prove that, then the jury had to acquit.

You may not like it, but that's how our justice system is set up.
It's better that 100 guilty people go free than 1 innocent person goes to prison.

[premium]

2. Trayvon Martin,

I have no sympathy for GZ, he brought it on himself, Trayvon was an innocent kid just trying to go home.

[Vattel]

3. I feel sorry for both of them.

[Hoyt]

23. I'm more sorry for Trayvon. Zman trained and armed up to kill.

[LWolf]

5. This is a ridiculous question. nt

[hrmjustin]

7. Just curious of the response.

[LWolf]

12. Who here

would honestly have more sympathy for GZ than for the kid that he killed?

I am aware of all of the rationalizations used to justify "sympathy" for GZ, but they sure as hell don't belong here.

[hrmjustin]

14. I completely agree but I was curious if a Zimmerman supporter would explain their position.

[LWolf]

16. I've seen a few here.

The explanation seems to be dependent on bad law, rather than ethics or morals.

And following a bad law, or bad or incomplete instructions, doesn't go far enough to exonerate GZ unless the jurors themselves have preconceived bigoted assumptions.

In my opinion, of course.

[hrmjustin]

17. There are a few here who like to rub the not guilty verdict in our faces.

That makes me sick!

[LWolf]

18. Yes.

I assume that patronizing tone will be gone when it's their kid on the line.

That's part of the problem.

Every kid is our kid...or should be.

[hrmjustin]

22. It is horrble how some people including the defense smeard Trayvon.

[Igel]

28. Not how I took the question.

I don't favor either of them. Don't know them personally, just know them as abstractions from a trial. I try not to favor people in trials. Makes for nasty perceptual biases.

Also don't buy the hype. The hagiography around TM is rivalled only by the vilification of GZ. Hard to see either as a real person. The result of nasty perceptual biases.

[Little Star]

6. Trayvon by a million miles! That poor child died for nothing.

Zimmerman made his own bed and now he can sleep in it. I hope it's hell for him.

[blm]

10. The minor being followed by the adult stranger who shot him when the minor fought.

.

[CakeGrrl]

11. All for Trayvon, zero for Zimmerman

Zimmerman shouldn't have gotten out of his car and instigated a confrontation to kill an unarmed kid. NO excuse for that whatsoever.

Zimmerman should reap all the fear, paranoia and unhappiness he will have sown for himself.

[Control-Z]

15. I have zero sympathy for Zmurderer.

He went hunting for a black youth. He found one and killed him. And he got away with it. I hope he walks scared, no petrified, for the rest of his life. Then he can tell us all about "gawd's will".

[RedCappedBandit]

19. One's dead, the other one killed him

[dkf]

20. It was a tragedy. One person lost their life another person lost their future.

[Ruby the Liberal]

26. Equally. Noted. nt

[Kennah]

32. Had Zimmerman been convicted, he still would have lost his future. It's the price of crime.

[noamnety]

24. I identify and sympathize with someone being stalked

and having a fight or flight reaction.

There's nothing in me that identifies with stalking someone, let alone with a loaded weapon.

[hrmjustin]

25. Kick!

[demosincebirth]

27. Trayvon Martin's parents. They are the ones grieving.

[Raine]

29. Trayvon of course. nt

[PufPuf23]

30. That was an easy choice. nt

[dgilmour32863]

31. That's so easy

Martin, by a very long shot. Zimmerman is a scumbag who deserves to spend the rest of his pathetic life in prison.

[hrmjustin]

33. Kick!

[cherokeeprogressive]

34. This isn't the most transparent purity poll I've ever seen on DU...

Nope. It's not.

[hrmjustin]

35. Actually I was hoping a Zimmerman supporter would explain why they have sympathy for him.

I am not talking about people who feel sorry for both because the humanity of it. I am talking about people who have no sympathy at all for Trayvon. Got no takers.

[cherokeeprogressive]

36. Hellooooo... sympathy for George Zimmerman? You're fishing on the wrong reef....

[hrmjustin]

37. I know that but we have had a few sign up and I wanted to see if they would explain their position.

I have a hard time showing sympathy to Zimmerman and I want to know how others do have it.

[hrmjustin]

38. Kick!

[Brigid]

39. No sympathy here for Zimbo.

He shot and killed an unarmed kid, and got away with it. All the rest is just smoke and mirrors.

[XemaSab]

40. Rachel Jeantel

n/t