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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]The Magistrate
(96,043 posts)It is hardly anything new, the date on the story being that of Friday last. Since then it has become well known the police attempted to 'persuade' witnesses to alter their accounts, mis-represented their contacts with the murdered youth's family, and mis-behaved in sundry other ways.
Since Zimmerman initiated the confrontation, by interfering with another person who had a perfect right to be where he was and doing what he was doing, Zimmerman has no real claim to right of self-defense if the matter went sour once he began it. Thus, even if claims Zimerman was being bested by a boy he outweighed by a hundred pounds, to the point of being on the ground ( highly suspect claims, to anyone who has ever been in physical alteration as an adult male with another adult male ), it would not alter the matter in the slightest: Zimmerman committed murder while engaged in felonious assault.