So Why Would Zimmerman Not Necessarily Have Deserved a Swollen Nose and Bruises?

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44. I'm not going to go so far as to assume GZ wanted to kill someone

I believe GZ certainly has penis issues and needed to try exert his "power" and "control" over another person. I believe the situation escalated beyond what GZ expected and he reacted in a totally inappropriate manner.

There are a lot of "ifs" here. If GZ had done what he was instructed to do by dispatch and wait in his car and if GZ wasn't toting a weapon he should not have been carrying on a simple neighborhood watch things would likely have turned out differently and Martin would likely still be alive.

But GZ made conscious decisions. He decided to carry a weapon on neighborhood watch. A watch where it is still in dispute that he was actually an authorized neighborhood watch person. He decided to ignore instructions from the 911 dispatcher who is arguably more well trained than GZ in this type of situation. He obviously approached an innocent kid and confronted him in some manner.

I'm not a DA but I think that usually when people make so many conscious decisions that lead to another person's death it results in at least a manslaughter charge.