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In reply to the discussion: Analysis of Zimmerman Lies in His Re-Enactment Video [View all]TorchTheWitch
(11,065 posts)And point out where I speculated anything other than to emphasize a point. I'll wait.
No, the post was NOT written for those people that hated Zimmerman and were sure he was guilty, and I'M the one who's the authority on that because I'M the one who fucking wrote it. I wrote it as a reply in another thread and posted it as an OP only because a few people asked that I do so. I almost never write OP's here since I've been here as of 2003 or so.
I myself have never been one of those people that automatically thought he was guilty or that he was racist as my posts can attest to about this case when it first appeared on DU in particular when people were saying that he had no injuries whatsoever because of a grainy video at a distance from him taken at the police station when he first arrived there after the incident. I was one of VERY few people arguing that you couldn't tell from that video whether he had injuries or not especially because from the reports available at that time said he had injuries and that they were cleaned up.
I also was one of VERY few people at that time that didn't believe he said "coons" rather than "punks" nor did I believe and still don't as my more recent posts on the subject attest that this was ever about strictly race and that it was not only race that Zimmerman used to profile Martin, and STILL don't believe this case was every all about race.
I got interested in this trial because I LIKE certain trials particularly those that are more complicated in discovering what happened and who if anyone is at fault. I got interested in this one for the very fact that there WAS controversy about it and so little was known about what actually happened. And one of the things I LIKE about certain trials that I have interest in is connecting the evidence given during trial and the behavior of the attorneys on both sides, their questions, their objections (or lack thereof), the demeanor of the judge, the witnesses and everything else that goes along with any trial.
The biggest reason I did this analysis of the re-enactment is because I was pissed off at the prosecution who has all the way along been dropping the ball on clarifying damn near anything and not objecting when they should be as if they're asleep at the wheel. Observing attorneys on either side so badly doing their job just pisses me off in general. Bernie did a SHITTY job of clarifying all the lies and inconsistencies in this one piece of evidence alone, he's allowed the defense to go on with an entire stream of speculation from witnesses without objecting, and though he may have gotten some things stricken later (a whole fucking DAY later), the jury still heard it, and they're still not going to be able to totally disregard it because they're human. It's his damn JOB to object when he should during the questioning specifically so nobody ever hears that stuff to begin with, and I have to assume he sleeps through most of defense counsels' questioning since he's let them get by with so much.
So you know what you can do with YOUR attempts of mind reading when it comes to MY mind about my OP or anything at all about this trial.