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Originally Posted by kane
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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Based on WHAT would race play a role? How does race play a role in anything? Thats pretty extreme. This is an assertion that as usual was immediately made by the family (mother?). If race plays a role its merely because everyone is insisting that race plays a role, even though there is no factual basis for that.
Listen to them analyze the 911 call in court. Sounds like he was quite calm and just doing his job. No one says "there's a negro here, can i shoot him because he's a negro". In fact, the call is pretty clear that he is calm, sees a guy that shouldn't be where he is based on how he is acting, how he is wandering all over the place - in and out of peoples yards and so on. He didn't even describe him as being black until he walked closer to Zimmerman as he was talking to the dispatchers (who were already en route). He followed him because the guy was running away and he wanted to keep his eyes on him until the police arrived.
You just can't listen to the 911 call and think "this is a guy who wants to commit an act of violence". he's just calmly doing his job and reporting what he's seeing.... in a neighborhood that's had 8 burglaries in 15 months committed by,... wait for it..... wait for it... wait for it... young black males, who were either witnessed committing the crimes or were subsequently arrested.
And the prosecutor is really a dipshit. Another witness totally devastating his case for him. What a turd.