A couple of years ago, I was personally responsible for starting a lot of OPs on Zimmerman

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79. You can't take race out of it, though

Race is necessarily included in the analysis, not because George Zimmerman is a case-closed member of the KKK or anything of that sort. But included nevertheless because he acted upon biases that are quite obvious, which suggest that a young black teenager walking around at night must be 'up to no good' (his exact words, I might add).

Zimmerman was the one in control the entire time - until he was no longer in control by virtue of triggering a very understandable reaction in a frightened teenager who was lost in a strange neighborhood and who clearly made it obvious that he didn't want to be followed and harassed.

Confronting a stranger in the dark is, at best, suspicious behavior. When someone runs away, they're making it known they're frightened and don't want to be followed any longer - that much should have been known to George Zimmerman and to anyone who followed the case. The decision to continue following Trayvon Martin was a decision to look past the obvious and to initiate a potentially violent confrontation. Why? Because Zimmerman knew he was packing heat and believed the law allowed him to use deadly force if Martin dared to fight back. Turns out, he was absolutely right.

Zimmerman's kinda like you're 1960s Mississippi cracker. He knew that he had States rights and juries of sympathetic people on his side, and he liked his chances. If you can't see it this way, it's because you honestly don't want to. I don't think George Zimmerman necessarily set out with the idea that he necessarily would kill Trayvon Martin, but the guy obviously has a strong psychological need to make up for the lack of penis size to the point where he regularly plays the role of Don Quijote. Ever wonder why this f*ck face is involved in so many instances of violence?