Originally Posted by
Johnnny5
Peppermint Patty, I'm just curious, but what if Trayvon Martin had been a white 17 year old and Zimmerman a 28 year old black man? Would that change your opinion on who was at fault?
IMO race actually has very little to do with this tragedy, but everything to do with the vast amount of publicity it has received. From what I have read about George Zimmerman he probably would have been just as quick to consider a unfamiliar white kid as suspicious.
None of us know exactly what happened, and it is arrogant ignorance to claim that we do. The one thing I do know that it's going to be very difficult for the prosecution to get 12 jurors to convict Zimmerman of 2nd degree murder. He may very well be guilty of it, but there are so many questions surrounding the shooting that it will not take much for some of the jurors to see reasonable doubt.