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Patience:
The kid approached Zimmerman's car. Zimmerman, rather than simply clarify the whole situation, rolled up the windows. While not an outright aggressive move, it sure as hell didn't help - and had I been that kid, it would have put me on edge too. This guy has been following me, and when I attempt to find out why, he rolls up his windows and talks into his cell phone. He was WRONG and he needs to pay some kind of price for his actions. He is not blameless, and he should not get away scot-free with what is, arguably, murder. That death did not need to happen. Zimmerman had at least two opportunities to avoid it... the first by minding his own business and not following a 17-year-old boy around like some kind of stalker, and the second by simply saying 'Hey, I'm with neighborhood watch and I didn't recognize you, so I just wanted to introduce myself' when Trayvon first approached the car.
While it is unfortunate that it played out the way it did, the reason he"got away scot-free" is that the prosecutors dropped the ball. If there is anything to be upset about it should not be at the final verdict but at the prosecutors for the "go big or go home" stance they took from the beginning, knowing they didnt have a case at all. THAT is the injustice that Trayvon had more than anything.
As is was said before, if you would have accepted the juries verdict if they found him guilty, you MUST accept that same juries verdict of not guilty, unless you are accusing the jury of being impartial or biased. that is not the case though.
it is sad that a misunderstanding lead to a kid getting shot but that is all it was, this guy didnt go out looking to shoot him, it was a stupid sitiation that escalated, turned into a fist fight and the kid got shot. both sides were wrong in this case but the martin family is not the only people paying for this. the ex police chief who followed the law of the land lost his job for standing up for the constitution in this case. that is almost as troublesome as the case itself.