This guy can not stay out of trouble. http://news.yahoo.com/george-zimmer...ance-call-191020842--abc-news-topstories.html
He probably feels untouchable at this point, OR people are taking every chance they have to throw him under the bus.
Reporters who writes things like this really bother me because their word choice. It's a thinly veiled attempt to show him as guilty for something he was found not to be. It should have read "...acquitted in July for the killing of teenager TM."
Not to mention that the guy's life has got to be a complete mess. He can't go out in public. His wife is divorcing him. He's probably suffering from some sort of PTSD. His career aspirations are destroyed. He owes hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees and other expenses. Etc, etc, etc.
I think you're both right and wrong. There was never a question as to whether or not he killed Martin. So he wasn't acquitted "for the killing…" But I think the guy should have said he was acquitted "in the murder trial…" By leaving the word "trial" out, he made it sound like the murder was a fact.
Yeah, my issue is that the definition of murder is "the crime of unlawfully killing a person..." and therefore it wasn't murder since he was acquitted. I agree with you, had he said "murder trial" then I wouldn't have issue with it.
I suspect that you're pretty close to being right. In fact, I think it's the media that's throwing him under the bus. His name, and face, are infamous so everything that he does in public are watched with gleeful anticipation of another story to publish. Remember the traffic stop here in Texas? There's no way in hell that that should have warranted a national story. He's just going to have to disappear to some other country for a few years in order to be left alone.
Just because he was acquitted doesn't mean it wasn't murder; only that the state didnt meet the burden of proof necessary to convict.
Media wasn't present when he was acting stupid. They didn't make him do anything. Edit: that was about what Orvis said.
Agreed, but I don't think the media should decide that someone committed murder when the justice system could not determine that.
True, but how many other black kids were shot and killed around the same time Martin was, and how much do you know about the current happenings in the lives of the people who did the shooting? How many of the shooters can the average person name off the top of their head? You can't just discount the part that the media played in the whole Zimmerman story. Or the part that they are still playing.
If you keep getting booked by police because of the things you do, maybe the media will focus on you, maybe they won't. If you never cause any trouble, they won't. No matter what your skin color is.