Before Zimmerman started to stalk him with a gun Trayvon was an innocent kid with skittles.
Or the ingredients for lean... depends on what you would like to imagine or not imagine about the image of an "innocent kid," I guess.
Images aside, here is a harder form of evidence:
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Trayvon's own friends warned him stop fighting all the time — and not just a year earlier.
A few months earlier, one of Trayvon's friends warned him that he was going to end up with a bullet in his (Trayvon's) chest if Trayvon didn't stop getting in so many fights.
These were among the text messages that the special prosecutor illegally suppressed from the defense team, which were leaked by the IT consultant, and the IT consultant was then fired. A hearing about this incident is still scheduled.
So those who knew Trayvon best warned him to stop getting in so many fights. One called Trayvon a hoodlum — one of his own friends.
Trayvon did not heed those warnings. When a friend explicitly laid out the warning that Trayvon was going to end up getting shot, Trayvon did not heed the warning but continued on his violent lifestyle.
Again… These are not my words or ideas. These are the words of Trayvon's OWN FRIENDS captured on Trayvon's cell phone, in text messages.
These are not my opinions. They are the opinions of Trayvon Martin's own friends.
From a lawyer familiar with the case... simple rule of thumb that applies to everyone, you never know what might happen if you start beating someone up. It doesn't matter if they're harassing you or not. Recently a drunk Goldman Sachs employee in NYC called someone a "n***" when they tried to keep him from stumbling into the street.
They punched him and he was knocked out cold, left on the street. Perhaps deservedly so, yet they were still arrested for assault. That's just the way it is. Because even if someone is a racist that doesn't mean that you get to beat them up by law. (So if you do, then run... faster! Geez.)
And just because a criminal jury said he was not guilty does not mean he was innocent. OJ any one? I support the courts but they are not always right.
The "criminal jury" heard more of the evidence about the "innocent kid" (although apparently the cell phone evidence was suppressed)... and you apparently didn't, to say the least.
Zimmerman is probably about as innocent as anyone could be, which is to say... not very. Pretty sure he and his wife could still get into legal trouble for trying to hide/transfer that money, etc.
But if the roles of the "creepy ass cracker" were reversed and the racist thug/gangster Trayvon Martin had beaten, shot and/or killed Zimmerman then it's highly unlikely that it would be a national story for various ignorant, trendy and stupid groups of people to get upset about.
Maybe there's some argument for tribal debts based on tribal imagery if modern groups and "gangs" of people are ignorant and stupid enough to believe in that. So African Americans have a right to beat up "whites" based on tribalism and old, tribal debts... but then Russian immigrants, Hispanics, Israelis and so forth could still "stand their ground" or defend themselves from "gangster" black mob violence and so forth? But if that's the case, then it should be made clear in law exactly which American "whites" it's ok to beat up or knock the eyeballs out of
in the "knock out game" and so forth. Because even people with a tribal/gang mentality would still need some semblance of the rule of law, right?