It's Watch!... Neighborhood Watch. Not shoot.

O’Mara attacked the investigator, saying there was nothing about either of those things that proved Zimmerman was the one who initiated the struggle.

“You have nothing to support the confrontation suggestion?” he said.

Gilbreath struggled at first and finally replied.

“I don’t know,” he said. “I think I’ve answered the question.”

 

Bad outing for the state. Thought this was very telling:

“I didn’t know we’d be trying the case,” prosecutor Bernie De La Rionda, apparently exasperated, said during the hearing.

 

We all know that the Sanford police, by design or accident, fucked up this case every which way. The prosecution, which has to count on these bastards, presumably knows this. The defense sure as hell knows this. There is going to be enough reasonable doubt that I would be stunned if the jury finds Zimmerman guilty. One of the practical problems with shoot-first-ask-questions later laws is that with the default presumption a shooting was justified, nobody's collecting evidence to say otherwise.

As I said earlier, I think it will found that both Zimmerman and Martin, legally speaking, Stood Their Ground. Except that Zimmerman is alive to degend himself and tell his story how he wants it told, and Trayvon Martin isn't. Which means by the end of this trial the conversion of Trayvon Martin to evil black thug/criminal/potential killer on the loose will be complete.

 

Bob, in what way did the Sanford PD screw up the case?

 

They apparently were supposed to telepathically know the incident was going to happen and be there to stop it before Zimmerman ever made the first 911 call.

Amazing to me that pictures of Zimmerman's bloodied head have the "he stalked and killed Travon in cold blood" crowd digging in even deeper.

 

Doesn't fit the narrative.

Seems to me that we would WANT there to be some semi-logical explanation for the sequence of events to have gone awry the way they did.

But the minute one appears, it'll just piss people off.

 

What about the part of the "narrative" in which the neighborhood watch isn't supposed to be armed or pursue anyone?

 

Zimmerman's bloody head aside, he still decided to actively stalk the kid presumably because of his race and his clothing. Neighborhood "watch" my ass. That's not the kind of behavior we should be condoning.

 

Meanwhile, the New Black Panther Party bounty is still unclaimed. It offered a $10,000 bounty for the "capture" Zimmerman.

 

Explain to me the race thing. Because when they played the full 911 call (not the NBC special edit), the 911 operator asked his race and Zimmerman responded that he didn't know.

 

NARRATIVE!

 

Zimmerman actually said, "He looks black." A little bit different from "I don't know."