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Originally Posted by kane
I agree that the media has been all over the race aspects of this since day one and Martin's family and supporters have played the race card non-stop. I also agree that the prosecution was maybe pressured into a murder 2 charge. They likely wanted to press for manslaughter which may have ended in a plea bargain, but all the media attention forced their hands.
I still think race has a place in the trial. If Zimmerman was racially profiling Martin that has some importance and if Martin's race is what caused Zimmerman to stop and investigate it plays a role in this. Of course, we will never likely know if race did play a role in this or not. The circumstances surrounding this case just don't allow for us to ever know the full truth of how and why things went down.
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That is precisely it. There isn't enough evidence one way or another.
Personally, I don't think he should walk away scott free because I don't really buy the whole self defense story. Getting your ass kicked doesn't constitute life threatening in my book... but at the same time, there's also no real way he could have known Martin wasn't armed either.
Had the media not gotten involved and made it look like a racism fueled hate crime then Zimmerman would be looking at manslaughter. And that would have been just in my book because of the lack of evidence. But trying for murder 2 is a waste of everyone's time, and tax payer money because again, there isn't enough evidence one way or another.