I bet he does. I am pretty sure he also wants women on the jury.

Shocked! I am shocked that people shop for judges in Florida!!

Well Georgie Boy might have just made the biggest mistake in his life. I hope she is a no nonsense judge who feels when you lie to her you have obstructed justice and should be penalized. Embezzling from his legal fund wasnt a smart thing to do. Hope she sees through his lies and gets this trial underway so there can be some closure one way or another soon.

Nah, he was out doing that vigilante stuff, not really a woman thing - they'd feel more sympathy for the victim.

That old sayin........... "Careful What You Wish For........."

Shirley Ujest - was just thinking the same thing. I'll bet his lawyers are a little red-faced!

Kuhao, you based your comment on what? Though your sign-on name kinda tells it all anyway.

However since the trial will be held in Florida, which has more than it's share of conservative racist gun nuts that have no idea of what the 2nd amendment means, I expect at the very most a hung jury.

Imagine how you're going to feel if a judge who actually follows the law decides the facts don't support the charges! Oops!

KUHAO...

so he was not on a "good road" and that feeling you have gives that scum b ag Zimmerman, . ok you might want to research exactly where Zim got that beating.. since the ER team on site released him after caring for MINOR scratches... but there was a lot of time until he got to the police station and at that time he suddenly had serious injuries , a broken nose and lacerations to the scalp

new gawker.. you better sign up soon to be one of his visitors at the big house in CHIPLEY or elsewhere I am certain all of you that defend a murder might like to go and comfort him.. but remember in the big house things will be very precarious for him.. he'll have to do a lot of butt kissing.. damn I would love to watch that

since the ER team on site released him after caring for MINOR scratches... but there was a lot of time until he got to the police station and at that time he suddenly had serious injuries , a broken nose and lacerations to the scalp

Yet another arm chair QB who is CLUELESS to the facts of the case. The police wrote about the injuries in the report. And GZ REFUSED further medical care. Get your facts straight.

Hey Maxgiver....do yourself a favor and read the official police report. You have OBVIOUSLY learned all you now about this case from MSN. Which as we all know has done a HORRIBLE job of representing this story in a fair and unbiased manner.

I for one look forward to the trial where all the evidence will be heard and the truth will come out. Not what the media misrepresented or what someone read. FACTS. Unfortunately there are people who already decided guilt or innocence on one side or the other and unless there is a miracle there will be violence and bloodshed in the name of Trayvon Martin. Sadly from what I've seen so far it would make him proud. Sigh.

Dan D is RIGHT ON THE MONEY.

Nothing makes a judge more apt to be angry with you than for you to go after a judge.

Zimmerman will go to jail, will not pass go, will not collect $200.00.

regardless of whether he is guilty or innocent, if he had a judge who openly did not like him, I don't blame him in the least for wanting a new judge! Isn't that what our American justice system is supposed to be about, getting a FAIR trial? Its already going to be hard for the jurors to look at this case in a 100% unbiased matter because of all the national attention, the last thing that would be fair is to have the judge overseeing the court proceedings openly hating him. I don't think that means at all that he was trying to get an "easier" judge, just one who at least wasn't going to act openly biased. He is very within his rights, whether he is guilty or not. Now I pray the jury, no matter what decision they make, pay attention only to the facts presented at trial and not the mess the case has made in the rest of the world.

I pray they set GZ free. I think many of us would have done the same.

I can't say for sure if TM was good or bad or whatever. But wearing a hoodie is not a crime. Carrying a beverage and a bag of skittles is not a crime.

GZ initiated the confrontation between them, and for that he can at least be considered grossly negligent and causing the death of TM. If you drive your car carelessly and kill somebody, you go to jail for it. If you carry a gun and needlessly initiate confrontations and it results in death, you should go to jail.

GZ probably never intended to kill the kid, but his careless actions (which he was TOLD NOT TO DO), caused the death of a teenager who did not deserve to die.

Some people on this forum act like the kid deserved it because he smoked some pot and wore a hoodie. Give me a break.

MB-

Most of your post i agree with. The only thing that is speculation is that Z initiated the confrontation. We don't know for a fact if he did. Regardless...we do know that words were exchanged before anything happened. Up to that point no one did anything illegal. Its going to come down to the prosecution showing Z initiated physical contact first....will be interesting to see how they play it out.

Shogun

I think the prosecution admitted in the Bond Hearing that they didnt know who threw the first punch, which in order to defeat Zimmermans self defense claim they are going to have to prove. Youve got two guys, one is beat up, one is not, I doubt if a jury is going to think the beat up guy is the one who struck first. If they cant prove it, GZ walks on reasonable doubt.

GZ initiated the confrontation between them, and for that he can at least be considered grossly negligent

A highly debatable point. Following someone and asking who they are/what they are doing is not considered a confrontation. At most it would be considered VERBAL confrontation.

TM, on the other hand seems to have started the physical part when he blind sided GZ at his car and jumped GZ. Ironically GZ had stopped following him at this point. So one could EASILY argue that TM started the confrontation (physical). Now factor in that TM had got the better of of GZ and had him on his back and was ponding his head into the ground and you have a clear case of self defense.

He should have expected a disparaging remark or two once he was caught lying to the judge.

Don't need a trial, don't need a judge. Zimmerman has already been tried online. He is guilty of brutally and willfully killing a saintly young man after tying him and hoisting his screaming body up into a tree where he then shot him. He would have dismembered and disposed of the body if a witness had not appeared after he lowered the body to the ground. At the same time, in his last breaths, TM was praying, yes praying, that the Lord would forgive Zimmerman and prepare a place in heaven for both of them. TM cared only about the goodness of his fellow man and how he could work to bring that out of those who exhibited less than goodness. A true saint.

I have no sympathy for George Zimmerman in no regard whatsoever because if Trayvon Martin was white and George Zimmerman was black he would not be free on bail and by now he would have been charged with first degree murder and in jail. There is still apparent racism in the U.S. today and to those of you commenting about you don't know who initiated it, you must not have listened to the 911 call or you are incompetent and racist and don't want to admit the truth. Did you hear when the 911 operator repeatedly told George racist Zimmerman to let the police handle it while he was on the phone. So alot of the comments are sheer ignorance or your own racist biased.

Just want to see Zimmerman go free. Then the fun begins...all the white folks jumping up and down, praising the lord, saying "I knew he was innocent!"

Black folks forced to swallow their feelings, not say anything for fear of anything that they say or do is interpreted as racist.

Oh...wait, no...I'm confused. That was the OJ trial.

My bad.

Hog, please keep your fantasies to yourself. We have heard your stupid, ignorant filth before.

Im gonna laugh my butt off when they convict Zimmerman.

If T M was white, you Rednecks would be all over Zimmerman wanting him dead because he's hispanic. But Zimmerman doesnt look too hispanic so its ok, plus he has a caucasian sounding name.

Zimmeman had a short man's complex, was a cop want to be, had a gun, was looking for trouble, didnt listen to dispatch, took things into his own hands, started a fight, got his ass kicked by a teenager and then killed him. What a man he is. He is going to jail.

Later Rednecks

Naturelover-3195767 You have a serious mental problem and you are very deranged

very weird wouldn't be surprised if you were on the news for committing a viscious crime. Anyone who can

even find a little humor in the horrific death of someone else needs to see a psychiatrist you neeed to be

reported to the F.B.I. for investigation......................You are really sick mentally get help soon............

As a white person I can easily see why Trayvon was killed. And he was guilty, he went to the store, bought some candy and a drink, then had the guts to walk back to where he was staying, and all the time while black. This is America, and Florida is a right to be racist state.

Really...I understand someoneone upset because a kid was killed. I just don't understand everyone acting like people are take up for him because he was white. I take up with him...if his story is like it happened...for the simple fact you don't put your hands on anyone just because you don't like what was said. Trying to act like there is some great social injustice going on is laughable. Whats the statistics?? Something like 97% of homicides involving a black victim involve a black suspect? Soooo....guess something like 1% involve a white suspect.... 1% ......

This may be a tough minded judge. So what?? GZ is NOT on trial for perjury, not on trial regarding his website for donations, he is also not on trial for being disliked by a certain segment of the population. The judge is NOT supposed to take into consideration anything BUT the facts of the charges GZ DOES have against him. IF there is even a whiff of suspiscion that this new judge is being unfair and biased by the media and political and public pressure there will be another judge asked to recuse herself or this case will end up in front of a higher court on appeal if GZ gets convicted. This man will NOT get a fair and unbiased trial anywhere in this country and long as the media, politicians and the public that have no business judging anything keep putting in their 2 cents and trying to sway the outcome before the trial even starts.

Black justice, Being predjuiced in itself is NOT a crime. You are a perfect example of that fact. This is NOT a case of GZ tracking down a black to "KILL" and you very well know that. This whole thing has been blown way out of proportion by people like Al Sharpton and his motivations sure as hell aren't "AS PURE AS THE DRIVEN SNOW". Al Sharpton is motivated by greed, money. power and fame and Martins' parents want in on some of that action as well!!! IF GZ had been black as well this whole story would be forgotten in a day. Sharpton and gang had to take a man with hispanic (and I hear some black) hertigage, who appears hispanic and turn him into "WHITEY" SO HE COULD START A MEDIA CIRCUS WITH HIMSELF AS THE STAR AND PROFIT, PROFIT, PROFIT!!! HE AND OTHERS WANT RACIAL DIVIDE, HATRED, AND MAYBE EVEN A RACE WAR!!!! That is what this whole thing is about. Not JUSTICE!

When a police dispatcher tells you not to follow, and let the police handle it, and you continue to follow anyway, you're looking for a confrontation. Being Florida has a stand your ground law, you know you can shoot someone and claim you felt threatened. Being that NONE of you clowns were there, and have NO idea what transpired , you have no grounds to spout your opinions. Only 2 people know what actually happened, and one of them is dead, so you feel the one still alive MUST be right. Hopefully the judge isn't as ignorant as you all appear to be.

I'm happy with this development.

Ohio BOB,

I have the number to the prosecutor....your inside information that he followed will seal the case shut. And you are right...hopefully the judge isnt as ignorant at making assumptions.

Blackjustice, you may be black, but you have a lot to learn about justice. A situation that is truly the problem with the black community in this country. If someone insists on dressing and acting like a criminal (those baggy sagging pants ARE derived from prison attire) and committing crimes (even if it is only smoking pot which Martin WAS guilty of) then they are going to be seen as being a dangerous criminal. Trayvon Martin was 6 ft 2 in. That is NOT a little boy, that is a well above average height MAN. He was a varsity football player which means that he was probably in pretty good physical condition. He was in an area where he wasn't known. Being asked who he was and what he was doing there is NOT a physical confrontation and "being dissed" is no excuse for resorting to violence. Reports are that Martin was not exactly a choir boy either. There had been multiple burglaries in the neighborhood by perpetrators who matched Martin's description. Zimmerman had been asked to form a neighborhood watch to try and combat the criminal activity of people who looked and dressed like Trayvon Martin was dressed that night. There is a difference between whites and blacks when it comes to crime and watching the nightly news shows the difference, despite the media's attempt to hide the facts. More of the crime in this country is committed by the black minorities than the white majority. When the Black community stops the nonsense of blaming it all on whites and cleans out their own cesspool, there won't be any discussions about this crap. But as long as blacks tolerate and excuse the criminal activity of a significant percentage of their community, the honest, law abiding (neither of which term describes Trayvon Martin) blacks will face discrimination. BTW exactly what do you think would've happened had a white teen wandered into a black neighborhood? Look at the statistics and the numbers don't show that he would've been greeted with tea and grumpets. So if you want to see a freaking racist, look in the mirror.

I am truly saddened by the racial madness in this country - I am the first to admit that while not everything is about race, to try and deny that racism continues to exist in America is just hiding ones head in the sand. Had TM been a white youth sagging and wearing a hoodie I'm sure GZ would not have assumed he was a thug, called 911 and followed him. The problem is GZ should never have gotten out of his car (period) he could have followed TM from a safe distance. The problem is GZ is a cop wannabe, jaded by the media's biased reporting of crimes committed by black youth (white males commit more crimes then all other persons yet much of that is not reported in the media). To deny that most people (blacks included) in America have been impacted by the media's biases (on most issues) is foolish the real e is that we (Americans - black and white) are not willing to be honest about racial issues/relations and its negative impact on our country. Wouldn't it be nice if we Americas could come together and try and build this country up - rather then fight, blame and complain.

Funny how the 9-11 terrorist did not care if other Muslims was in those planes or building all they cared about was killing Americans, yet we continue to divide ourselves according to the color of ones skin - how patheti , no wonder other countries laugh at us.

NAB,

speculation. I'm willing to be Z would have stopped a white kid he didn't know. The only reason i believe somewhat he is saying is because i live in an area where there is an increase in crime. A dead end street that everyone knows everyone. AND i stop everyone i see walking around if i don't know them just as my neighbors do. 15 kids between 5-12 will make you worry when alot of predators are registered in the area. Nothing Z did was illegal has bad as you want it to be.

Having said that....i get tired when people try to turn everything about race when it never was. I agree racism is still in the US....

But you are judging.

This guy is cooked . What went on that night of the killing created a big riff in this country. I wasn't wittiness so i can't judge

WOW I have never seen anyone totally dismiss their own posting so fast.................PRICELESS.

since when is a judge a witness?? what I WONDER ABOUT IS JUDGES are called tough,soft,liberal,conservative etc. But very seldom called FAIR.

Yes, you are judging. What if George had also been black? No story then.

CHARGER12 - no doubt that is the kind of person you are. How totally disgusting!

Sorry Terry, second degree wasn't included in the charges. It's first degree or nothing.

Sorry old dog, second degree were the charges. No possible way to charge with 1st degree. But I guess you are right anyway with nothing.

The biggest problem with all of this is the 911 call, GZ was told NOT TO FOLLOW the person, HE PUT HIMSELF IN THIS SITUATION. We all have the right to wear a hoodie, most youngsters do at some point. If someone you didn't know was following either of you, I am sure it would scare you as well. I know I would defend myself if it happened to me. I am quite sure GZ didn't introduce himself to this boy. We all need to realize he was only 17, how much rational sense did any of you have at that age? This goes beyond what your biased eyes see.

We all have the right to wear a hoodie,

I am so sick of hearing about a hoodie, skittles and ice tea. Give me a break ppl. He wasn't shot for wearing a hoodie for crying out loud,

People......TM was shot bc he was on top of GZ and beating his head into the ground. Get with the program.

Only if he is guilty, from what I know of the case, he is not.

Be, that is the point, you dont know anything, never did, never will. LOL

Pattybar, don't you understand that you cannot refer to Mr. Martin as "boy." it is not politically correct and may only serve to brand you as racist.

That said, please go back and listen to the 911 tape again, I know my hearing is getting bad but, myself and many others did not hear the dispatcher utter any words to the effect of "DO NOT FOLLOW!" Mr Martin was shot because of his actions following the point where most reasonable persons would have just continued on his way to his father's girlfriend's place and avoided any additional contact with the issue.

Tom near Seattle you must have listened to another 911 call because if yo can comprehend the dispatcher said LET THE POLICE DO THIER JOB DO NOT FOLLOW HIM!!!!!!! I mean what do you think that meant............

Raider, As a trained EMT, I must tell that the injuries to the back of the Zman's head are inconsistent with it being pounded against a concrete sidewalk, or as you put it, "beating his head into the ground". As big as Trayvon was even one smash against concrete would have caused way more injuries to the back of the Zman's head, one smash. With his head being pounded there would have been blood everywhere, all over the back of his clothes, the back of his head, or else he would have been bandaged, big time.

Raider, Get a round green, not a ripe, watermelon, put a pair of gloves on, hold said watermelon about 6 to 8 inches above a concrete slab, smash in down 5 or 6 times then see what the bottom looks like, then take a look at the back of the Zman's head as he walks into the police station, see if they match. No way was Zimmerman's head smashed into concrete repeatedly!!

Barlow,

As a "trained medic" too..if you really are.....you know your story is BS. You don't always get what you expect from injuries. Someone says they were attacked..head hit by brick...you don't see any injuries to suggest that MOI.... you laugh... person dies from internal head bleed.

Barlow, you forget one major point!! The watermelon doesnt have neck muscles to hold it self up and push back. That is important!!

Black Justice, you need to go back and listen to the tapes. At no time is GZ asked in any way what you suggest. He was told and I quote:

Dispatch, "are you following him",

GZ, "yes"

Dispatch, "We don't need you to do that"

GZ, "Ok"

At no point was he told to let the police handle it and at no time was he told to stop. and ask youself this why was GZ running, oh, because TM ran away.

IF HE RAN AWAY, WHY THE HELL WAS HE SHOT!!! UNLESS HE CAME BACK, OTHER WISE HE WOULD BE ALIVE!!!

"

Dispatch, "are you following him",

GZ, "yes"

Dispatch, "We don't need you to do that"

GZ, "Ok""

OK- so I guess you all think if a dispatcher tells you "We don't need you to do that" when your planning to yank a knife out that's stuck in your stomach-- your going to pull it out anyway?

Personally I myself am going to do what a person TRAINED in responses suggests I do.

good lord you are an idiot!

Yep. That's his Dad. Shaved the mustache, bought a wig. You nailed it.

Jack Hines

Zimmermans father was a low level magistrate in Virginia and has absolutely no connection to the legal system in Florida.

Pan and Jean...you both are idiots. He didn't say, "is it his dad?"...he said is there any connection...meaning DOES ZIMMERMAN'S DAD KNOW THIS JUDGE. Simply dumb!

Steve, are you sure? Look up the connection between Zimmies dad and the Mafia based legal system in Florida.

one latino jurur in central florida is all they need, many area's there are 40% hispanic.

I don't know about that...we thought that 12 jurors would certainly find Casey Anthony guilty and look what happened...

Who is we? That case was poorly prosecuted and the defense was greatly underestimated.

We knew (here in central florida) that she would walk the whole time because Lawson Lamar asked for the death penalty and that was the wrong charge to go after (never would have sentenced a young attractive girl to death).....they have the wrong charge here as well on this case....Zimm walks.

Plus, Cassey wasn't dumb enough to do videos to incriminate herself.

At least one good thing came out of Casey Anthony's trial. She is the most hated person in the world. She can't go out in public...so basically she is in jail and she will never get a job, and most likely some sicko is going to do to her what she did to her daughter.

Frank, are you Zimmerman's neighbor buddy who came to his defense? You sound like it.

The "confrontation" consisted of George asking Martin what he was doing in the neighborhood.

That's not what got him shot.

What got him shot was punching George in the face, knocking him to the ground, and banging his head against the sidewalk.

Oh get serious - really. If Trayvon had not taken an innocent walk to the store to get skittles and tea wearing a hoodie no less and talking on the phone to his girlfriend he would be alive today. You can bet that he didnt expect some cop wannabe that just because he was black and was wearing a hoodie followed him and shot him. I really cant believe the number of people that want to blame the victim without even hearing his story. All we have here are 5 versions of what went on from Zimmerman and with his history of lieing we are just supposed to believe him when he says he feared for his life from a 17 year old boy.

panhandletown.....

if TrayGONE had not been expelled from school for drugs he would have still been alive

Why do you Zimmerman supporters respond to intelligent discourse with gibberish??? Why do you people make things up??? Martin was not expelled from school for drugs that is a blatant lie...Why did you start the gibberish there it is so unimaginative. Why don't you say what you really feel? I believe that if you were being honest you would really say something like if he had not been born he would not be dead. That is my perception about how you manifest your hatred towards those individuals whom you feel inferior to

I want to know where any of you get your information. You may want to talk, you could be the reason of a conviction or acquittal.

@SHar-2704637 .....I don't know about 5 different versions from Zimmerman. But, I did read about more than one witness saying Martin knocked George to the ground, and then beat the back of his head into the sidewalk.

Current, have you told the court yet that you were there and know what happened?

Racist are showing themselves....

OMG TrayGone really? that's really disrespectful, Do you understand you are talking about a child, WOW you guys are the real monsters here.

Current: And doing a b & e on a home in your neighborhood.

Oh, reallly, Jeanette? You've imagined that he was also a burglar? What else would he have done, in your vivid, paranoid and racist imagination? Tortured animals, raped children, and murdered lying, ignorant idiots like you? (That last hypothetical would have proved that good can come from any situation.) Your imagination is an ugly place.

I could agree with you Mr Sharp, bastardizing the man's name is certainly disrespectful but, I think defining Mr Martin as a 'child' is perhaps a little far fetched.

A six year old girl, killed while asleep in her bed by a stray round from a drive-by shooting in Watts, is a child. A six foot tall seventeen year old assailant, will, by some definition, still be referred to as a 'child,' but that does not put him in the same catagory as the normally accepted use of the word 'child.' While Mr Martin's death is unfortunate, the media really needs to portray 'facts as they have been reported' as opposed to drawing a picture of a big bad white guy who just killed this cute little black kid.

@ Tom near Seattle -- Let's face it had TM been a white upper class youth - the media would drawing a different picture of GZ - he would be considered a person of color because he is hispanic.

I'm actually quite the handsome one....seems like your mind is made up and you have rejudged...

reelblite

The prosecution has a lot of things they are going to have to overcome, and with the evidence we've seen so far, I dont think they can get past reasonable doubt. The only way they can get past self defense is to prove that Zimmerman threw the first punch, and they dont have any way to do it.

cookykamp

I'll bet he ends up being sorry he asked for a new judge. Sounds like this new one is a bad-ass hangin' judge! LOL! Sucks to be him.

Or, maybe she's the tough kind of judge who follows the letter of the law. If that's the case, and it sounds like it is, then it might just suck to be prosecuting this case.

:-)

If ZMan only had a brain. If his mom wasn't a whore, he would have not turned out to be such an a$$hole.

Sucks to be him, IF he is guilty. I do not believe he is.

Good thing you are not my judge.You sir are bias.Further more if you think you can do better.Go to Chicago and deal with the killing there...

Ps..Dont forget to wear your hood...

paragus

Good thing you are not my judge.You sir are bias

You mean biased Dumb A55

Mr. Rightnow, Got Hood?

@robin reich Im sure you own a hood

Then again Cozy, there's an old saying that goes; "better to be judged by twelve, than to be carried by six."

True

This judge looks like a real weinner biter!!!!

I don't know...she's kinda hot...in an understated sort of way. That cute crooked little smile, the way her hair curls. A nice solid chin and perky eyes that say "Hello" before her voice does.

I just spit Perrier....thanks.....

RT Colorado,

If you say so. Personally I don't see it.

I just spit Perrier....thanks.....

You admit to drinking Perrier?

perky eyes that say "Hello"

More like slightly-crossed eyes that say "I just had three vodka martinis!"

gtouch

I just spit Perrier....thanks.....

You admit to drinking Perrier?

----Haha. Didn't know they still even made Perrier.

No evidence has proven his story....that's why they have a trial to present the evidence. All you have is what Zimmerman says happened, and his story has changed a couple of times. To say nothing of the fact that the police dispatcher told him to say in his truck and not follow TM, that the police were on their way. If he would have done what he was told (and what a neighborhood watch person is instructed to do) and not confront TM then TM would still be alive and he would not be in jail. He would have had no reason the "defend himself" if he did not force a confrontation.

No Lisa, Zimmerman's story hasn't changed. The press accounts have changed over and over! You can quit spouting the MSNBC version of the story any time.

You are so right. He has already been found guilty in the eyes of the media who constantly twist and turn the facts to make it a more interesting story to follow. If both were of the same race, no one would have ever known that such a tragig event ever occured. Prime example of the media being bias is the first picture shown of the victim when he was what 12 - where he appeared to be like any normal 12 year old - innocent, care free and enjoying the life of a kid. Yet, compare it to his true appearance when the incident occured and you see a totally different person who has lost that look of innocense. This shows that the media now determines the cases that are prosecuted verses our legal system.

For all who want to judge - anything can happen tomorrow and you do something to defend yourself or a loved one and if 1 thing does not go with your story - you could find yourself in the exact situation as Zimmerman.

In regards to his story changing, etc... whose to say that his lies are not out of fear. No matter what story he tells, he is still accused of murder and being racist. Would that not scare the s---- out of anyone and they not be 100% truthful either - because no matter what he says - it does not change the public opinion that has already found him guilty.

Never judge someone unless you have walked in their shoes. Our society is as messed up in how they think as our judicial system is in how they determine who is guilty and who is not...

GZ was supposedly inside his truck (per his own statement at the time) when he was told by the Dispatcher not to follow the kid. So, if he wasn't pursuing TM, really interesting how he magically ended up in that courtyard between the apt bldgs on the sidewalk where TM was walking, quite some distance by foot from his truck in the parking lot. (I haven't seen/heard/followed later conflicting statements by GZ.)

As to who struck who first, when and how, this would be up to Forensics experts to determine and present at trial, regardless of GZ's statements.

MM Texas

He was already out of his truck trying to find out which way Martin was running, after the dispatcher said "he's running, which way is he running", when the dispatcher realized that GZ was out of the truck is when he was advised that "we dont need you to do that", after which GZ replied OK and started back for his truck. None of this makes any difference, unless the prosecution can prove that GZ threw the first punch, he walks because of reasonable doubt. Zimmerman doesnt have to prove himself innocent, the prosecution has to prove him guilty.

Zimmerman pulled the trigger. He needs to be held accountable. A lot of other people saw Trayvon that night but it is still GZ that pulled the trigger. If trayvon had pulled him out of his vehicle, you might have something to argue your point.

Wrong ralph....both had a right to be there. The only thing neither of them had the right to do was attack the other one. Unless you feel people have a right to attack someone when you don't like what they say?

Well said, ZMan2012

Please cite credible sources and links re Al Sharpton "...manipulates it with the threat of a riot." Or did he reveal such a plan to you in a private conversation?

anyone that thinks they can psychoanalyze a million people they've never even met is either a blatant moron or.. no, that's it, a blatant moron

he had doug correct!

Or maybe we are just people who are capable to following instructions....like those given by police dispatcher who told Zimmerman not to get out of his truck to follow TM....or the instructions given to ALL neighborhood watch personal telling them to NEVER confront someone they find suspicious - just call the cops.

B E, good call on Doug-950479

Zimmerman was going back to his truck when Trayvon Martin attacked him.

@ Robin....which would not have happened at all if he would have stayed in his truck as instructed by the police dispatcher who told him not to follow, that the police were on their way. But this guy had to get out of truck, didn't he!? Plus, anyone who is involved in a neighborhood watch will tell you one of the things they insist on is that you don't follow or confront someone, you just call the cops.

So many loser racist repulbicans in here. They will be crying soon when Obama is re-elected...all because he tried to keep the morons of the ultra-right happy. Bye bye Mitt. Who names their son Mitt anyway? lol

Lisa,

Did you even listen to the tapes?? Z was already out of his truck when the dispatcher told him that. You can plainly hear the door open...the car make that beeping noise when the door opens...and the door shut. I'm not specifically targeting you. I see alot of people regurgitating things they see others post.

its a shame these dumb libs cant read, they would have know that he was returning to the truck, just like the dispatcher told him. when Martin attacked him from behind and tried to kill him.

Shogun

Doesnt it piss you off when people who obviously havent listened to the tape try to tell you whats on it.

For Lisa,

Perhaps you could make your position a little easier for us to accomodate. Please, just post a sign on the doors to your residence, your car and your place of employment and perhaps your t-shirt, that advises us not to confront an attacker, burglar or armed robber in your defense.

Some of us may appreciate your effort to help keep our local police budgets in check, we can just eliminate their weapons, fast cars and expensive communications equipment. Just call them up, if you should need them and, I'm sure, they'll get to you in due course. There's much less paperwork for our local guys if your body is found in another county or jurisdiction, and that can truly save the taxpayers some money. I, for one, would not necessarily appreciate your cost savings efforts as I work at that donut shop near your place and we truly need their business.

If you should find your community under assault by a rioting, looting and pillaging mob participating in civil disobediance, it could behoove you to have already prepared a very large sign to stick in your front window where you would adamantly state, in large capital letters, so everyone can see, not to assist you as you've already called 911.

Mr Martin would most probably not have been killed in that altercation if he had not been involved in it.

RomBama your absolutely right just like those TV Shows.

As a Retired Federal Employee with a Law Enforcement background including medical knowledge of force blow traumas;despite what Zimmerman did Martin did step over the line when he jumped on top of Zimmerman. Bottom line, Zimmerman is lucky to be alive !

Now retire from posting your foolish comments.