"If Trayvon Had Only Answered In an Appropriate Manner There Would have Been No Problem"

[JHB]

95. Horseshit. Was he supposed to read minds?

Zimmerman was not wearing a bright neon sign saying "Hello, I'm just your friendly neighborhood watch captain", nor did he have any such sign on his vehicle.

And I'm going to hazard a guess that Treyvon Martin failed "telepathy and mind reading" in school, so he had no way of identifying Zimmerman as from his perspective there was some unidentified large, older man following him and acting suspiciously. From what was said on his call with his friend, he did the reasonable thing and tried to evade this suspicious person.

Zimmerman had already (mis)pegged the kid as a burglar , so every reasonable action Trevyon took was interpreted as confirming Zimmerman's suppositions. There was no consideration of the possibility that Martin was acting the way he did because Zimmerman was acting like a creepy stalker.

There was no "perfect storm", just a time bomb from Zimmerman's lack of suitable temperment, lack of oversight, and bigoted profiling.

You can feel sorry for poor little George right up to the point where he killed somebody. An innocent somebody who was just going about his ordinary business until George got the wrong idea in his head and pursued it so aggressively that someone wound up dead.

I wonder how Mr./Ms. Taffe scores on psychic tests. How would he/she feel about getting killed just because you didn't read somebody's mind?