THE MURDER OF TRAYVON MARTIN

REALITY-   On July 13 2013 George Zimmerman was found not guilty of the second degree murder of  a 17 year old un-armed high school football player, Trayvon Martin, who was walking home alone and talking to a friend of his via a Bluetooth.

      On the night of February 26 2012 George Zimmerman stalked Trayvon Martin until there was a confrontation between them.  Zimmerman, a man with no official authority, noticed Trayvon Martin walking home. Zimmerman decided that Trayvon Martin looked enough like a threat to him because there had been burglaries in the neighborhood before that night.  Zimmerman called Sanford police because he saw a lone black teenager walking down the street and in that he saw an opportunity.

      Zimmerman reported to the operator what he considered a suspicious person in the Twin Lakes community. Zimmerman stated, "We've had some break-ins in my neighborhood, and there's a real suspicious guy." He described an unknown male "just walking around looking about" in the rain and said, "This guy looks like he is up to no good or he is on drugs or something." Zimmerman reported that the person had his hand in his waistband and was walking around looking at homes. On the recording, Zimmerman is heard saying, "these assholes, they always get away."

      About two minutes into the call, Zimmerman said, "he's running." The dispatcher asked, "He's running? Which way is he running?" The sound of a car door chime is heard, indicating Zimmerman opened his car door. Zimmerman followed Martin, eventually losing sight of him. The dispatcher asked Zimmerman if he was following him. When Zimmerman answered, "yeah," the dispatcher said, "We don't need you to do that." Zimmerman responded, "Okay." Zimmerman asked that police call him upon their arrival so he could provide his location. Zimmerman ended the call at 7:15 p.m.  By 7:30pm, Trayvon Martin was dead.
Excerpts taken from Wikipedia.org

      It took Sanford Florida police another 44 days of national outrage to charge and arrest George Zimmerman for the murder of Trayvon Martin.



      George Zimmerman had stalked this suspicious looking person who looked like they were "up to no good" and "on drugs or something." Sometime after Zimmerman ended his call to the police there was a fight. A fight that George Zimmerman started with his feet by following an innocent, although possibly suspicious looking, person, and a fight that George Zimmerman ended with his gun by firing one shot straight into the heart of Trayvon Martin, killing him.

      If George Zimmerman had stayed in his car Trayvon Martin would still be alive today.  If George Zimmerman hadn't had a gun on him that night, George Zimmerman would have stayed in the car. If George Zimmerman had had any reason to actually suspect Trayvon Martin of burglary or being "on drugs or something" there would have been some evidence found on Trayvon Martin. Maybe a bag with burglars tools, you know a crowbar, a ski mask, and maybe a suction cup with a diamond rigged onto it to cut holes in glass windows or something. Without any such evidence George Zimmerman has no case besides his word that he was attacked by Trayvon sometime after The Sanford Florida police had told him to stop following people.

      If I'm walking home alone in the middle of the night and I'm 17 years old and I'm a black man in a predominantly white neighborhood and I'm un-armed, and I know that I am un-armed, and I see someone watching me from a car nearby and I know that I don't have to actually be "up to no good" for someone else to tell the police that I'm "up to no good" and I get that instinctual feeling that we all get when we're in a dangerous situation I would absolutely run away.  Especially if I'm only guilty of "walking around in the rain."

      So what happened next? Did Trayvon jump Zimmerman? If so, if Trayvon was further ahead of where Zimmerman had stopped, how does Zimmerman get ambushed by anyone unless he continued to pursue Trayvon Martin against the explicit instruction of the Sanford Police?

      Again, if I am in a situation the likes of which Travon Martin had been in that night, and I have already run away from a suspicious looking person sitting in a car and now I can tell that this suspicious man is following me, there is no telling what I might do.  While I myself have never owned or carried any kind of firearm I still take my personal safely very seriously and so if I found myself in Trayvon Martin's shoes on that night I would have fought for my life too. I would not tolerate being followed or stalked by anyone under any circumstances. I consider that to be a threat to my personal wellbeing whether the person stalking me intends to rob me, kill me, or buy me an ice cream, there is just no way to know the intent of the person following you at that point. When someone is following you and you choose to stand your ground there will be a problem between you. That much is obvious and commonplace, what is not commonplace is that the person following you pulls a gun and kills you.



      Let's talk for a second about the fatal shot that killed Trayvon Martin. I don't believe, based on the evidence, that Zimmerman could have made such a precise shot while in the midst of a struggle for his life. Zimmerman's claim is that he killed Trayvon Martin because Martin had mounted him and was punching him about the head and face. Zimmerman also claims that Martin slammed the back of Zimmerman's head into some concrete. The physical evidence left on George Zimmerman is not consistent with his story. According to expert witness testimony the wounds suffered by George Zimmerman were indicative of Zimmerman being punched not more than twice in the face.  The superficial wounds to the back of Zimmerman's head and to his face required no stitches or sutures or staples. Zimmerman didn't even get a black eye. George Zimmerman didn't suffer any concussion. According to George Zimmerman, it was somewhere in here that he managed to reach his gun from a holster on the back of his belt. Of course if you're lying on your back with someone on top of you it's impossible for you to reach a gun holstered on the back of your belt.

      So once Zimmerman couldn't possibly have reached his pistol while being beaten about the head and face he landed a single picture-perfect shot into the heart of Trayvon Martin. Which is impossible if you're in a struggle like Zimmerman claims took place. In fact I would say that it would have been much more logical to use the butt end of the pistol in close-combat situation like that. Or perhaps a warning? Stop punching me I have a gun? Or maybe a slightly less fatal shot? This is not a movie. I'm not saying "aim for the leg," but it takes days to die from a gun shot wound to the abdomen and it's a much larger target in a crisis.

      Why didn't George Zimmerman, if his story is true which it is not, why didn't Zimmerman attempt to wound his attacker? If George Zimmerman truly had no malice or intent to kill then why didn't he simply shoot his attacker rather than shooting and killing him? George Zimmerman fired a single shot aimed directly at the heart of Trayvon Martin. George Zimmerman had to know that that action would cause death. That is murder.

      Why didn't George Zimmerman fire his gun in the air, away from himself and anyone else, as a warning? The noise alone would surely been enough to either bring help or scare off any un-armed attacker.  What if in trying to fire that warning shot the other guy gets the gun away from you? Again this is not a movie. A young man is dead because of George Zimmerman .

      George Zimmerman, though he has been acquitted of criminal charges, will no doubt face civil charges in the murder of Trayvon Martin.

      On that fateful night in February The Sanford police, having accepted George Zimmerman's cooked up story, never fully investigated the crime scene to determine what really happened that night and so, in reality, we will never know.

      George Zimmerman knows.



      George Zimmerman knows that he murdered Trayvon Martin.