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

[Demo_Chris]

47. Consider what Zimmerman said to the dispatch

First, remember that it is very likely that the things he described are very likely not true. In any case, JUST consider what he was saying. Not what ultimately happened. In fact, for the purpose of this mental excercise, assume that nothing else did happen.

Does it not sound like a person going down a mental list, checking off bullet points (pun intended) for a justified self-defense claim?

* Black guy acting suspitious
* He's on drugs! Something is wrong with him!
* Oh no, he's spotted me, he's checking me out!
* He's coming this way!
* He's reaching in his waistband!
* He's pulled something out, and I can't see what it is!
* Please send help!

This was essentially what Zimmerman said and in the order that he said it. He had laid the entire groundwork to gun him down on the spot. After all, it was dark and raining and he "couldn't see" what Trayvon had in his hands. Had he blown him away we wouldn't even know his name.

But Trayvon ran.

Obviously no one can PROVE any of this. None the less, when I look at what Zimmerman said, the order he said it, and then consider that it is quite likely NONE of it ever happened, my opinion is that Zimmerman was planning to kill. That's what it looks like to me.