{"id":39903,"date":"2012-04-20T09:11:41","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T15:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=39903"},"modified":"2012-04-20T11:10:01","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T17:10:01","slug":"blood-evidence-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=39903","title":{"rendered":"Blood evidence, redux"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a follow-up to Darleen’s post<\/a>, let me just add a few additional thoughts. First, what is most troubling to me about all this — outside of the calculated (and as it turns out, dishonest) attempts by the media and even our own President turn a local tragedy into a symbol of supposed racial animus — is that Zimmerman was arrested months later in what I believe is a case of politically-motivated prosecutorial overreach. It is clear that, as the original investigation disclosed, and the original prosecutor’s office found, there had indeed been an altercation prior to the shooting, with Zimmerman apparently on his back, and Martin shot at very close range.<\/p>\n

Second, as I said it at the time and I’m going to repeat now: the (second) prosecutor’s “case” — and I don’t care the political party of those who pushed for a special prosecutor’s investigation, it still reeks of a political scapegoating, Republican or no — is based solely on Zimmerman’s having continued to follow Martin, to the extent he did (even if it was only to get a better look at a house number, etc.), after being advised by a dispatch officer to stay put.<\/p>\n

Following someone is not a crime<\/em>. Being followed may be grounds to confront the person following you, but it isn’t grounds for assault, at least not on its face. So unless the prosecution can somehow prove that Zimmerman followed Martin and then presented himself to Martin as a threat, either by initiating a physical altercation or brandishing the gun<\/em> — and I don’t think there’s anyway in hell they can do so, short of perhaps testimony of Martin’s girlfriend — there is no case here, and Zimmerman was within his rights to defend himself the way he did.<\/p>\n

As JHo points out<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Under Florida statute 776.032, GZ could be immune to criminal prosecution.<\/p>\n

(1) A person who uses force as permitted in s. 776.012, s. 776.013, or s. 776.031 is justified in using such force and is immune from criminal prosecution and civil action for the use of such force [...]<\/tt><\/p>\n

As used in this subsection, the term \u201ccriminal prosecution\u201d includes arresting, detaining in custody, and charging or prosecuting the defendant.<\/p>\n

(2) A law enforcement agency may use standard procedures for investigating the use of force as described in subsection (1), but the agency may not arrest the person for using force unless it determines that there is probable cause that the force that was used was unlawful.<\/p>\n

(3) The court shall award reasonable attorney\u2019s fees, court costs, compensation for loss of income, and all expenses incurred by the defendant in defense of any civil action brought by a plaintiff if the court finds that the defendant is immune from prosecution as provided in subsection (1).<\/p>\n

Damages awards against the State could be substantial. Damages to certain political careers, ditto.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There was no “racial profiling” in this case. In fact, we know that NBC edited its audio presentation to suggest a racial component that didn’t exist — and we also know that Zimmerman had once championed the cause of a homeless black man beaten by the son of a police officer. There was no “hunting down a black man for wearing a hoodie” by some “pussy-ass [White Hispanic] cracker.” There was, instead, an unfortunate chain of events that wound up with one man dead and another man bleeding from the head and nose. The fact that Zimmerman was a neighborhood watch captain in a neighborhood that had experienced break-ins provides the context for his concerns.<\/p>\n

Trayvon Martin perhaps didn’t know the context. He didn’t know about neighborhood watch, or about the other break-ins. But the original investigators did, and the prosecutor’s office evidently understood the law and understood that they had no case — even for manslaughter<\/em> — against Zimmerman.<\/p>\n

George Zimmerman is a pawn in a political game. At least, that’s what it looks like from my perspective.<\/p>\n

That supposedly “conservative” outlets were so quick to side with the race hustlers like Al Sharpton<\/a> in calling for the arrest of a private citizen whom the local prosecutor’s office, after an investigation, found no cause to arrest, absolutely sickens me. Rather than wait for any additional evidence to emerge, they were quick to legitimate Sharpton’s entire racket, and in so doing became accomplices in what appears to be an attempted political lynching — all so they can lay claim to being “fair” and “rigorous” under the rules of a game controlled entirely by the left and its identity politics enforcement mechanisms.<\/p>\n

But then, these “conservative” outlets are so afraid of being tarred with the “racist” brush that they seem ready to surrender every last ideological<\/em> principle if they believe doing so will keep them viable as a political<\/em>, Party outlet and mouthpiece.<\/p>\n

And that<\/em>, to me, is what’s “indefensible.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a follow-up to Darleen’s post, let me just add a few additional thoughts. First, what is most troubling to me about all this — outside of the calculated (and as it turns out, dishonest) attempts by the media and even our own President turn a local tragedy into a symbol of supposed racial animus — is that Zimmerman was arrested months later in what I believe is a case<\/p>\n

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