Quote from AAAintheBeltway:
You're making a lot of assumptions. For one thing, Zimmerman shot only after he was jumped and was down getting his head slammed into a cement sidewalk. That sounds like self defense to me, not manslaughter.
Point taken, but we're still in the investigation and allegation stage of the game. Granted the media has made a circus of this. They've tried and convicted Zimmerman on pure wild eyed speculation. No real surprise there, as they have an agenda. Race Baiting Inc. has jumped on the bandwagon. No real surprise there either. They have an agenda too. Mama Martin is looking for some jackpot justice. Disappointing, but again not really surprising. Makes it tough not to stereotype when people act in such a stereotypical way.
But a question still remains. If a guy, in this case Zimmerman, is hounding another guy, Trayvon, and then the houndee turns and starts whipping some ass, is it really self defense when the hounder shoots and kills the houndee? At this point I'd say Zimmerman was looking for some shit, found it in Treyvon, things escalate as they usually do, and we know the rest. Little Trey is a long ways from what he's being portrayed as in the media, but I'm not yet convinced this is a righteous shoot. Time will tell. Only thing I know for sure is that just about everyone involved has sunk to the lowest common denominator, which sadly comes as no surprise either.
