George Zimmerman: God Is The 'Only Judge That I Have To Answer To'

[Tommy_Carcetti]

99. The only *logical* possiblity to support the Trayvon ambush story...

....is if were either under the influence of a hardcore psychotropic drug (the trace amounts of marijuana in his system don't count) or he was otherwise mentally unbalanced. I don't think the evidence points to either of those as being the case.

Absent that, I guess it is technically possible (most anything is) but I would say extremely unlikely for that to be anyone's reaction in that type of situation. It's certainly not plausible or probable.

Regarding the dog walk issue, yes he could have continued down to the end of the dog walk and then walked around to his house on Retreat View from the other side. However, that might require a deeper working knowledge of the neighborhood's layout. Given that Trayvon had only been in the neighborhood for a mere few days, and factoring in the weather, darkness, and emotional confusion given the circumstances, he might not have been aware of such an alternate route or that he wanted to risk it. In those type of situations, a person may simply choose to backtrack to the known route.

I don't know what you are getting at with your weird double negatives about what the state failed to prove what Trayvon didn't do. I will say that the evidence only shows that there was some physical altercation between the two. No witness testified as to seeing Trayvon knocking Zimmerman down. The evidence actually did not show that Trayvon repeatedly struck Zimmerman's into head repeatedly (10-30 times as Zimmerman claimed); to the contrary, Zimmerman's head wounds were considered significantly minor and non-life threatening.

But what we can look at two individual's state of mind that night. Zimmerman that evening had been in an argument with his wife and she had left the house. He's leaving to go to the store and he see's a young black male who in his words "looks like he's up to no good." On numerous prior occasions, he had called police to report other young black males who he thought were engaged in criminal activity, but apparently there were still reports of break-ins. He says "these assholes always get away", which assumes he's not that pleased with the Sanford PD's prior track record in the situation. He then says Trayvon starts running, which causes him--for whatever reason--to get out of the car, knowing he has a gun on his side. As he's running, he's heard saying, "Fucking punks."

It's not a stretch to assume that George Zimmerman was angry that night. Angry at both his home situation and what he perceived to be an ongoing neighborhood crime problem that continued to be unresolved by the authorities.

Now let's look at Trayvon. He's simply walking back from the store. He hasn't done anything illegal. He sees a stranger following him in his car. And he continues to follow him. And knows it's strange and that it might be a predator. And then the man gets out of his car and starts chasing him. For reasons he does not know why, because he hasn't done anything wrong. And he has no clue as to who this person is or what he wants. And now he's in a neighborhood that he only is slightly familiar with, since it is not his own. And this strange man has just chased him.

So is it safe to say that Trayvon's state of mind that evening was not angry, but rather scared? Even the rather impolitic "creepy ass cracker" comment denotes fear and apprehension rather than aggression. No one wants to be around someone who they find creepy.

So anger versus fear. Armed neighborhood watchman versus unarmed visiting kid. Who do you think was more prone to aggression in that situation?