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Why Did Zimmerman Shoot Martin?

Why Did Zimmerman Shoot Martin?

  • Martin had a small knife

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Marting was beating him up

    Votes: 30 83.3%
  • Martin tried to grab his gun

    Votes: 6 16.7%

  • Total voters
    36
  • Poll closed .

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In the realm of public knowledge on high profile cases it is always interesting to see how views change years after it all went down. So this is about looking to see the accuracy of a high stakes issue regarding violence and if people felt like they were given all the facts and that those facts drove the narrative.
 
How is discussion about this still going on
 
This was already explained in court. There is no reason to explain it further.
 
De ja veux all over again.

He stood him up against a wall and shot him in the forehead and then did a selfie with him and then sent it to alt right for their yearbook.

Happy?
 
How the hell would I know?

Ask Zimmerman.
 
In the realm of public knowledge on high profile cases it is always interesting to see how views change years after it all went down. So this is about looking to see the accuracy of a high stakes issue regarding violence and if people felt like they were given all the facts and that those facts drove the narrative.

If you get enough participation, the results may be interesting.

I think I've answered differently than I argued at the time. I answered that he was being beat up. I think he claimed Zimmerman was trying to get his gun. In either case, though, it was self defense.
 
Because he was being attack and in his full right to shoot him in self defense. /end thread.
 
If you get enough participation, the results may be interesting.

I think I've answered differently than I argued at the time. I answered that he was being beat up. I think he claimed Zimmerman was trying to get his gun. In either case, though, it was self defense.

Last time I ever discuss this. I wanted to give Zimmerman the benefit of the doubt. I always thought he brought the confrontation on himself, but that Martin did engage him in combat and as he could not defend himself otherwise, he shot Martin. But his conduct ever since has led me to believe he is, and always was, a low life. I have no sympathy for the train wreck his life has become and I feel for the Martin family for the loss they suffered because their son had the bad luck to encounter this POS.
 
Last time I ever discuss this. I wanted to give Zimmerman the benefit of the doubt. I always thought he brought the confrontation on himself, but that Martin did engage him in combat and as he could not defend himself otherwise, he shot Martin. But his conduct ever since has led me to believe he is, and always was, a low life. I have no sympathy for the train wreck his life has become and I feel for the Martin family for the loss they suffered because their son had the bad luck to encounter this POS.

How is it possible that anything that came later, which were affected by the events of that night, relevant to what happened that night?
 
I don't know if it was for any of those reasons in particular. Primarily I think it was because he thought Martin was simply trying to hurt/kill him. Both parties made bad mistakes that night, it's a shame anyone had to die at all. However Zimmerman, was found innocent of a crime as he should have been in my opinion.
 
I wanted to give Zimmerman the benefit of the doubt. I always thought he brought the confrontation on himself, but that Martin did engage him in combat and as he could not defend himself otherwise, he shot Martin.

Yeah. George probably initiated the conflict, was in the process of getting his butt kicked, so he saved his sorry, cowardly ass in the only way he could.
 
Yeah. George probably initiated the conflict, was in the process of getting his butt kicked, so he saved his sorry, cowardly ass in the only way he could.

Just as every one else in the world would do.

Don't tell me that if somebody is smashing your head into the ground, you are just going to let them do it, if you have a way to stop them.
 
In the realm of public knowledge on high profile cases it is always interesting to see how views change years after it all went down. So this is about looking to see the accuracy of a high stakes issue regarding violence and if people felt like they were given all the facts and that those facts drove the narrative.
1. Why in the world would you include the first choice? It make no scene to include something that never happened.

2. The second and third choice is the sequence of events. Trayvon went for his gun after slamming his head into the ground and said he was going to kill him.


Either instance is enough to use lethal force in defense of one's self, but Zimmerman made it clear it was in the second instance that he decided to use lethal force. The first clearly would have influenced that decision, just as Trayvon saying he was going to kill him would have.





How is discussion about this still going on
Why do you care?
Does everybody have to agree with what they find interesting to discuss?
 
I always thought he brought the confrontation on himself,
No. Keeping an eye on an individual until the police you call arrive, is not bringing on a confrontation, Trayvon attacked him is.


... but that Martin did engage him in combat ...
No Trayvon attacked Zimmerman, and he either laid in wait or returned to the area to do so.


But his conduct ever since ...
His conduct? In what being falsely accused of things he never did?


... the loss they suffered because their son had the bad luck to encounter this POS.
iLOL
No, you have that reversed.
They lost their son because their son was a POS who attacked another human and said he was going to kill him.





Yeah. George probably initiated the conflict,
No, that is not what the evidence says.
 
Here's what President Trump had to say about Zimmerman...https://www.instagram.com/p/g5oz_tGhRa/
I am sure if someone sat him down and gave him the relevant information/evidence he would retract that statement.


Man, even the new right wing messiah doesn't like Zimmerman...LOL.
Biased nonsense.





When was that Instagram posted?

I didn't see a date.

Did President Trump really say anything about Zimmerman?
He said that some time before 19 Nov 2013, which is the time he directed others to that post.
It is day after Zimmerman's then girlfriend (after Shelly) made false claims which she later retracted.
 
Just as every one else in the world would do.

Don't tell me that if somebody is smashing your head into the ground, you are just going to let them do it, if you have a way to stop them.

I bet there aren't a lot of people who go around picking fights because they have a gun in their holster.
 
I bet there aren't a lot of people who go around picking fights because they have a gun in their holster.

You think he picked a fight?

A guy walking back to his vehicle is picking a fight?

Why would that matter anyway? If somebody is killing you, are you going to let them if you have a way to stop them?
 
I am sure if someone sat him down and gave him the relevant information/evidence he would retract that statement.


Biased nonsense.






He said that some time before 19 Nov 2013, which is the time he directed others to that post.
It is day after Zimmerman's then girlfriend (after Shelly) made false claims which she later retracted.

I asked about the date because this is what the other poster posted "Here's what President Trump had to say about Zimmerman"

He was not President Trump at the time so anything he said about the case is irrelevant.

It is also interesting that a leftie posts something that Trump said in this case like it has some weight, when they are saying everything else he says are lies.
 
In the realm of public knowledge on high profile cases it is always interesting to see how views change years after it all went down. So this is about looking to see the accuracy of a high stakes issue regarding violence and if people felt like they were given all the facts and that those facts drove the narrative.

zimmerman wuz a amateur professional neighborhood watchman serving his tour of duty before he wuz viciously attacked by a 6'1 hooligan
 
I bet there aren't a lot of people who go around picking fights because they have a gun in their holster.

He never picked a fight.
 
In the realm of public knowledge on high profile cases it is always interesting to see how views change years after it all went down. So this is about looking to see the accuracy of a high stakes issue regarding violence and if people felt like they were given all the facts and that those facts drove the narrative.

How about we stop talking about this?
 
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