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Royal Review : The Travon Martin Case / Zimmerman Murder Trial
Up until now i have held my peace concerning this case because i didn’t feel like i knew enough information to justify my opinion. One of my pet peeves is that today’s bloggers/journalist give snapshot feedback on current events and not a fair, accurate, review and opinion on what they understand to have happened. This blog and I will never be like that. Now that, that is out of the way, back to my opinion on this issue.
At first listen it seemed like the typical racial profiling case that we have all become accustom to hearing about but as this trial has gone on we see there is in fact more to the story. Yes i feel like racial profiling is a huge part of the case but not the only part.
Here is what I feel like we all know happened and can agree on (even if we don’t agree with the details of the event)
1) Travon was walking innocently/legally to the apartment where he was staying at.
2) Zimmerman saw Travon and called non emergency
3) Zimmerman was instructed NOT to leave his vehicle
4) Zimmerman DID get out of his vehicle
5) There was some type of confrontation between Zimmerman and Trayvon *** (i will elaborate on this point later)
6) Trayvon was shot and killed by a bullet in his heart
7) Zimmerman is the confessed shooter.
Those 7 points, regardless of how you feel, are indeed true and there is evidence from both sides that supports these points.
Based on these 7 facts alone there is only 1 conclusion : Zimmerman Shot and killed Trayvon Martin.
This fact alone has caused many of you to ask Why do we even have a trial going on? Well, in the United States you are innocent until Proven guilty. And while Zimmerman has confessed to shooting Trayvon they question of WHY he did it is the center piece of the trial.
Which brings me to the one moment where the details matter. The confrontation between Zimmerman and Tryavon.
This matters because Zimmerman is claiming that because he was fearful of his life , he shot Trayvon as a matter of self defense. Now, ladies and gentleman, we have a court case. If it is true that Zimmerman was defending himself then the fatal gun shot (even being to an innocent indvidual ) would be justified and thus no crime committed. The challenge is proving that Zimmerman in fact was in danger for his life. Which takes us back to the confrontation.
We know for a fact that Zimmerman and Trayvon got into a physical confrontation. And as much as we (people on Trayvon’s side) want to believe this was a simple point and shoot death it indeed was not. There WAS a fight between Zimmerman and Trayvon and unfortunately given the physical evidence it was going to be a fight Zimmerman would lose had Trayvon continued. We can argue all day who was on top or bottom and how many times Zimmerman’s head was banged against that concrete the fact of the matter is Zimmerman and Trayvon were indeed in some type of physical exchanged that ended up with Zimmerman killing Trayvon.
Allow me to play devil’s advocate.
Looking at the physical match up between the two its clear Trayvon had the advantage here is how the New Your Daily News describes the two
Defense attorney Don West had argued the texts were evidence that 17-year-old Martin, whom a police report described as 6 feet tall and 160 pounds, was a skilled fighter. By contrast, the pudgy Zimmerman, who lawyers said was 5 feet, 9 inches tall and 195 pounds at the time, has been portrayed by defense witnesses as an inept brawler
In the event of a physical fight Yes Zimmerman could be at a a disadvantage. Here you are thinking you are protecting your area and this kid starts beating the crap out of you. Knowing you can’t fight you resort to your only means of defense. Your gun. and BAM PROBLEM SOLVED.
What was Zimmerman thinking after that shot? Was he proud of what he did? Was he in shock? Did he know it was a fatal shot? What if the reality of killing someone , a teenage boy hit him so hard after the moment that it made him stay until the police arrived. What if this poor short fat ill-capable man was afraid of the big black teenager in the hoodie that was giving him a old fashion street beat down. Maybe, just maybe, he really was afraid . Maybe that was him screaming for help , anyone , someone. help me. and having no way out and fearing for his poor life he takes the gun and shoots him. Knowing what he had done he didn’t run away or try to hide. He had no other choice, he had to shoot him, he didn’t mean to kill him but he had to shoot him. He had to stop the attack he was under and he had to tell the police what he had done. He had to make sure the world knew he was just trying to help and in the midst got in to deep and had to dig his way out. He is a good man that caught up in a bad situation.
Ya know all of that sounds good. All of it almost sound believable until you hear the rest of the fact that all point to this being a crime and not self defense.
According to Zimmerman on the 911 recordings he is following Trayvon and he says Trayvon looks at him and then starts walking away. At this point the officer ask “are you following him” and Zimmerman responds “Yes” to which the officer says “We don’t need you to do that.” Those instructions were given by law enforcement. “We don’t need you to do that” and what does Zimmerman do? Gets out the car anyway.
To me the case is closed at this point. The Fact of this case is that had George Zimmerman stayed in his car Trayvon Martin would be alive.
But he didn’t stay in his car Zimmerman got out his car and got into a physical altercation with Trayvon. Lets look at what happened next from Trayvon’s point of view.
You are walking back from the store to your parents house in on a dark raining night. Everything seems cool until you notice a “creepy ass cracker” that keeps following you and acting suspicious. You turn around on the next corner to see who exactly keeps following you. You decide to just head home and get out of harms way when all-of-a-sudden you hear the car door open and the same creepy dude from earlier get out of the car. Hearing him get closer you turn around to figure out what this dude’s problem is.
The central question is not so much why did Zimmerman shoot but why did Trayvon have to fight? Why was there ever a physical fight to begin with? What would turn a trip from the store to get candy and a Arizona Iced Tea to home into a fight and shoot out?
George Zimmerman had to do something to Trayvon that made him stop trying to get home and made him start fighting for his life.
“You got a problem mutha fucka” Zimmerman says Trayvon said
“No” he supposedly replied
“Well you got one today mutha fucka”
And he did have a problem. Zimmerman playing super-save-a-ho-rent-a-cop had ran up on the wrong “Fucking Punk ” before he had a chance to “get away” which Zimmerman says “Always happens”
Trayvon tired of being stalked no doubt threw the can of Arizona tea to the side and served up Zimmerman a can of ice cold whoop-ass.
There they are Zimmerman and Trayvon scrapping , throwing bows. Trayvon standing his ground and defending himself from some paranoid jerk, Zimmerman thinking he is defending his recently terrorized suburb from a potential future crime , entangled together , fist throwing , punches, blows, and then a fall. Trayvon had gotten the best of Zimmerman. But Zimmerman had an ace in the hole . His gun.
Kept in the a holster on the waist of his pants his gun was locked and loaded and ready. During the scuffle Trayvon could have been the one who realized he was now in over his head and as a last result of his self defense he does the only thing he can do ….scream for his life.
There is one 911 call where you can hear the screams
Help, Helllllp . Help Me…… (BANG)……….a deafening silence fills your ears. The fatal blown was given at it was the one from George Zimmerman’s Gun. Trayvon lay dead on the ground.
No one knows what exactly happened between these two but something DID happen. And as much as i would love to try to play devil’s advocate for Zimmerman i simply can’t. Now he claims he was the one calling for help. My question is if you have the gun..why do you need help? Also it is clear that the voice on the tape is toned higher and sounds utterly desperate. If you were being attacked soo hard how did you have time to get your gun and be yelling at the top of your lungs for dear life. If it was Zimmerman yelling for dear life why did the screams IMMEDIATELY stop after the shot. Would you not still need help? If you felt like your life was in danger wouldn’t that be your first statement to police. Wouldn’t you continue to call for help . If Trayvon was so much stronger and bigger than Zimmerman why was their no struggle for the gun?
A clean shot straight into the heart.
Trayvon dead. Zimmerman On Trial.
All we can do is pray for justice. Yes i concede that Trayvon may have whooped George Zimmerman’s ass and good ole boy Zimmy proudly couldnt handle the beat down but at the end of the day He killed Trayvon with a single close range shot.
One thing he will ALWAYS be guilty of is Murder.
The Kyng Has Spoken …
Kyng Sufiiix 