09jisaac
Regular Member
Although I long suspected it, you've leaped headfirst into the category of "police apologists".
It is equally self-evident that the other "contempt of cop charge", disturbing the peace, necessarily entails having actually done so.
Especially when the charges are dropped afterwards, amirite?
It is hard not to. We, sometimes, assume that the media is going to report the cold hard facts. To much media hype if everything nowadays.
"Doing nothing wrong", except, of course, providing Zimmerman with justification for a rightful self-defense charge by slamming his head into the ground after he had already stopped any possible threat be being on top of a helpless (until he drew the gun) Zimmerman.
Assuming, of course, the police reports are accurate.
Remember, HankT, the claim to self-defense was not predicated on Martin's prior status of being "suspicious" (which I agree was likely unfounded), but by his subsequent actions.
Two wrongs never make a right. Zimmerman's stupidity can never justify Martin's behavior in the moments before he was shot.
We also don't know this. I believe that Z was stupid for doing what he did, but I do believe that he did have a cause for self defense. So I am not saying you are wrong, because I do hope that you are right.
And you are right about M being suspicious. No matter Z's reason to approach M, Z should still have the right to self defense. I am suspicious when someone follows me, but that does not give me the right to start beating their face in (I am not saying M was).