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Question : Will the Defense do Closing Arguments today -- or -- tomorrow ?
Thanks !
O'mara will give his closing tomorrow. IMO
Question : Will the Defense do Closing Arguments today -- or -- tomorrow ?
Thanks !
With kids these days, you never know the real meaning. I have heard kids use the "N" word to white kids.
I wish they would stop using all this kind of language, but it seems to just get worse. Not in my house though! There would be hello to pay if I ever heard any of it.
I don't know. We've had the discussion repeatedly. He says he'd run.
But I'm not sure as he's very confident. He's been grabbed up at the neck by an adult man. He remained calm and resisted the urge to use his 10 years of martial arts training and 4 years of karv maga. The man let go. He remained calm.
Charges were filed and the man prosecuted.
Amazing that the State wouldn't have entered that video into evidence, isn't it?
See, IMO the fact he says he wouldn't do anything differently is just incredulous. Really?! You are being charged with the murder of an unarmed 17 year-old, and you are good with that?!
Wow.
Yep.. shows ME his state of mind. IMO
From what I remember, she hit a tree at full force, not just fell in the snow, and also chose not to go to the emergency room.
Wow.. I have a 15 year old and I still treat him as a kid and crikey he acts like one and is as sweet as one!! Guess it might all be in the parenting IMO. TM's parents were good upstanding citizens...I'm sure their son was a "good kid" IMO
Dispatcher thought GZ was in the car when he asked those questions because GZ said that TM was circling the car, had his hands in waste band, dispatcher said "let me know if he doesn't anything else" knowing GZ was in the car. GZ was in the car when TM ran and told dispatcher that as well but when dispatcher realized GZ was going after him, that was when he said "are you following him?"
Wait he has security video but does not need to show it to Jurors?? Is that right?
Wow.. I have a 15 year old and I still treat him as a kid and crikey he acts like one and is as sweet as one!! Guess it might all be in the parenting IMO. TM's parents were good upstanding citizens...I'm sure their son was a "good kid" IMO
This has been an interesting and sad case. In my opinion, it says a great deal about where we are as a nation, and not all of it good. Ultimately it comes down to this:
This is what we KNOW...
An armed adult profiled and repeatedly followed an unarmed black teenager. This teen repeatedly attempted to get away from him -- first by walking, then running. Ultimately, the adult was able to catch the teen, a conflict occured, and the teen was gunned down. These are the basic facts agreed to by everyone involved.
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My post has nothing to do with who is a good kid; my response was what *I* call someone at that age. I do not call my 16 year old a kid. She is a young adult, young lady, teenager. She is not a kid. My teenager can be as sweet as pie or bratty (I was a female teenager myself and I could be a real moody judy sometimes as well) and I still hug her and I still love her and I'M a great parent so please do not mischaracterize what my response was about; there was nothing in my response which disparaged their parenting or that he wasn't "good." I'm talking about what I call my 16 year old.
This has been an interesting and sad case. In my opinion, it says a great deal about where we are as a nation, and not all of it good. Ultimately it comes down to this:
This is what we KNOW...
An armed adult profiled and repeatedly followed an unarmed black teenager. This teen repeatedly attempted to get away from him -- first by walking, then running. Ultimately, the adult was able to catch the teen, a conflict occured, and the teen was gunned down. These are the basic facts agreed to by everyone involved.
For everything else there are questions, and most of the "answers" have come from the statements offered by the adult who has the most to gain by lying. Many of these statements are conflicting or (IMO) downright ludicrous.
BUT...
The prosecution has to convince all six jurors that GZ is guilty. He needs all six, and given the political and cultural overtones of this case that was always an outlandishly long shot. Which is why I get the feeling the prosecution didn't really bother.
Final thought: Had it been ME out there that night instead of Trayvon I would have made it home just fine. I would have been home for dinner. I would have made it home because Zimmerman wouldn't have marked me as a target.
In my opinion only.