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| Trayvon Martin |
I want to try to be as fair as I can be. I am so upset that Trayvon Martin is dead. When it happened, I was sitting in a jail cell trying to work my way through bogus charges. I felt the pain of it all, but I just spent so much time trying to survive that I couldn't dig into it's ramifications. Now, I'm free and able to use the internet to express my feelings. Zimmerman is a "wanna be cop" and followed Trayvon, because he was young and Black. We all know that, and he only approached him, because he had that gun. If it didn't go well, he could always shoot him. That is the truth, no matter what he lies and says. Why would you carry a gun if you weren't prepared to use it. In fact, those who teach CCW classes tell their students just that. You carry it, you better be ready to use it. More people are shot with their own guns in this country than you can imagine. It happens, because they are afraid to use their guns, freeze and are over-powered. From the second that you brandish it, you begin shooting. Cops are taught to shoot in a secession of three.
I know when I learned to shoot my M-16, I was made responsible for it. I cleaned it, I carried it and even slept with it on my side. A clean weapon is essential, because a dirty one may not shoot properly. You're taught to respect not only your ownership of your weapon, but it's shooting power and killing power. That's why while practicing you never horse around and you keep that weapon pointed down-range. When you retrieve your target paper, you keep that rifle pointed towards the place you just shot. You do that, because the thing you have in your hand can kill and no enemies were in your sight. "You keep that weapon pointed down-range Private!" It rings in my ears now as I think about it. You respect it and that way you don't make any mistakes with it, and thank God I never did!
George Zimmerman saw Trayvon as an enemy. He didn't see him that way from the beginning, because he would have pulled his weapon at the very second he was confronted with the young man. He didn't, however, because he felt that he could handle the situation without his gun. It was holstered and not in his hand, and Trayvon popped him in the nose. A nose shot is a "first lick" hit. While in the midst of a fight, a nose shot is hard to pull of. Trayvon had a longer reach on Zimmerman and punched him dead in the nose for following him. I believe that he was mad that he was following him. After that pop, he commenced to kicking his ass.
I always believed that those screams were Zimmerman. When you see the pictures of his head, you know it was him. That young boy was beating him real bad, but I think that he still didn't want to shoot him. When you think about it, he did what he was suppose to do. He brandished his weapon and he shot it, because he had been taught that if he didn't use it on his assailant then chances are he would die by his own weapon. So, he says that he was forced to draw it and the next step was to fire, and in that order.
All my problems come from the starting point. When he had every chance to never have the confrontation at all. He could have stood by his car and waited for the police. By confronting Trayvon, he put himself in a situation he had no control of. Even if it happened the way that he said it happened and Trayvon confronted him, he placed him in a situation where he was exposing himself to uncertain danger. That's where the gun would be his back-up. What man would approach a man who is as big as Trayvon, unless he had something that would even the playing field. What he didn't count on is Trayvon being a true street fighter and taking him out like that.
Those jurors believed that Trayvon reached for his gun. They also believed that he was getting the best of Zimmerman and beating his head on the concrete. I also believe that Trayvon had told his friend that he was going to beat on Zimmerman and that's why she wanted nothing to do with the case. He was either lost or was taking Zimmerman on a trek through the complex. That woman as ignorant as she is, isn't smart enough to fix a trial with her testimony. Trayvon was a very mischievous young man, who was no stranger to trouble and in his own mind "Standing his own ground". The only thing is that Zimmerman had brought a gun to a fist fight. Because Trayvon had every right to beat the hell out of Zimmerman and stand his own ground, because he was a guest in that complex and had every right to be there, too!
If he would have survived, would he have been charged with assault with an attempt to do great bodily harm? I believe that he would have been charged with a crime for beating Zimmerman, but he was "Standing his Ground". Zimmerman was a stranger, and could have been out to do him harm. What about that? But the Prosecutor didn't want to touch on that. It would prove that Zimmerman was getting beat-up and I know he was. He was screaming like a little baby. Nobody wants to admit that Trayvon was an aggressor, because that would minimize his death. But we have to face facts, Zimmerman didn't pull out his gun and shoot him for nothing. Neither did he initiate a conversation by brandishing his weapon. He got into a fist fight and lost. Furthermore, he was probably really scared, too.
That's why he should have never followed that boy. He should have left him alone. He thought that he was at a safe distance, but he didn't know that Trayvon was playing a game. I believe that's what happened and he told his friend that he was going to, "Beat the sh*t out of this cracker". Neither of them knowing what Zimmerman was carrying and not knowing that he wouldn't make it home that night. With those long legs and youth, he could have been home far before his confrontation with Zimmerman, but he wanted to play. That cost him his life.
I just wished that Zimmerman didn't chase after him. He should have followed the rules and called the police and not pursued a potential threat. I wished he wouldn't have profiled Trayvon as a criminal, simply because he was black and dresses as he did. It was raining and he just was keeping himself dry. All of that was his right and nothing Zimmerman can say can make him right about that. Anytime something bad happens to me, I always ask myself, "What could I have done to have prevented that whole thing?" If Zimmerman was posed with that question all he could say is, "I shouldn't have followed him." It is just that simple, there is nothing about this situation that could have prevented it than that. Just call the police, and sit and wait. The police were on their way. I can just shake my head and sigh. I really wished that Trayvon mother could kiss and hug him again. George Zimmerman is a wrong man and should be in prison for "Man-Slaughter". He killed a man, due to his own actions. A young man that was wrong, because he was Black.
We need to pray for him, because he will pay for his actions. I believe in God and that's why I feel that way, and not for some vigilante reasons. A boy died, because he wanted to play cop and chase him down. Even if it was to watch him, he would have just see him enter a home he had every right to enter. What did Trayvon do to be harassed? That's what the Department of Justice have to ask. Because I don't know what he did other than be African-American and protect himself from the rain. I've worn my hood in the rain, and lived. I just wished that Trayvon could have...
Denise Nelson judge extraordinaire. She made some very fair rulings on the Prosecutor's side, but I saw a hint of smile when Zimmerman was acquitted. She is strongly on the side of the Defense in this case, and that's probably why she made the rulings she did. A young man is dead, because Zimmerman broke the rules. He needed his ass kicked!
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