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In reply to the discussion: I am Sick of all the Zimmerman Defenders [View all]Mariana
(15,626 posts)The fact that they're making up and spreading proven lies about Trayvon's past, and about the shooting itself, and posting all those fake pictures, and so on, indicates that they know it wasn't a righteous self-defense situation. The're pretending to believe Trayvon attacked Zimmerman and tried to kill him because they're happy that he killed a young black man, regardless of the circumstances. A young black man is dead, and as far as they're concerned, that's always a good thing. They can't say that, of course, so they put on this ridiculous act.
I don't believe you'll find any unsolved previous murders of young black men by Zimmerman and this is why I think so - all this is pure speculation on my part, but I think this is how it was:
I believe Zimmerman's fantasy was pretty specific: to shoot a "bad guy" legally in a defense situation. It so happened that his mental picture of a typical "bad guy" was a young black man in a hoodie, but I think he'd readily have gone after and shot a white man if he saw one that looked like a "bad guy" to him. Anyway, that fantasy is why he got his carry permit and made it his hobby to go out looking for "bad guys". And that's why he sounded so angry that "these assholes always get away", he was frustrated that none of them ever gave him a believable excuse to shoot them. In the recording of Zimmerman's phone call, I swear I hear anticipation in his voice while he's describing Trayvon supposedly making threatening moves toward him (he's coming toward me, he looks like he's on drugs, he's got something in his hand, etc.). He must have been mightily disappointed when Trayvon took off away from him, and made a snap decision that this time, he wasn't going to let the "bad guy" get away. I think if (big if) Trayvon did hit Zimmerman at all, that Zimmerman provoked it on purpose to give him an excuse to shoot, but it's just as likely that Trayvon never touched him at all.
So, I think this was his first. It was almost inevitably going to happen at some point. Zimmerman was going to shoot someone. If it hadn't been Trayvon, it would have been some other "bad guy" (almost certainly a young black man) some other night.