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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, exactly.  The PP who is saying we don't know what happened is either an idiot or trying to incite debate.  Nothing would have happened if Zimmerman had followed police instructions.[/quote]

New poster here.  She is not either of those things.  What she is tryingt o say (and hopefully I do a better job of it) is that, in our justice system, the jury will hear testimony about various things in this case.  There will be the initial 911 call.  There will be testimony from the police officer, and the medical examiner, and some or all of the people who called 911 to report the fight and others who may have overheard it or seen it.

Out the facts will come, bit by bit, and the jury mus decide what is true and what isn't.  We do not yet know all fot he facts that will be presented to the jury.  We do not know, for example, if all of the witnesses said the kid was beating the crap out of GZ and saying that he was going to kill him (seems unlikely, but we don't know).  We also don't know whether GZ yelled during the fight, "I am going to take care of your sorry N***** a**."  We don't know that, either.

Too often, people make up their minds without all of the facts.

In a case like this, to me it certainly looks [u]exactly[/u] like what many PPs are suggesting is true.  We ultimately won't know for sure.  There are many sides to the truth.  There isn't just one truth.  People's perceptions are shaded by their own experiences and also by their involvement in the situaiton.  You may have two witnesses to the exact same fight, and one says GZ sounded angry and confrontational and the other one saying he sounded nice.  One isn't necessarily lying.  I think of it sort of like nstant replays.  SOmetimes you need all the camera angles, and even then it isn't always clear.

Ultiamtely, what matters is that the police should be investigating this thoroguhlty and they should arrest this guy if they have grounds to do so.  It's hard to see why they don't.  But we don't know what's on the 911 tape and we also don't know what the witnesses said.  There could deifntiely be some things on that tape that would warrant a DOJ investigation into the failure to arrest or there could be some other factor (like it turns out Mr. Criminal Justice Major did an internship at the PD or osmething).

We don't know now where this will go, although from where I sit it's pretty hard to see how there could be any angle but the obvious one.  I, however, do not get to make any decisions here since I am not the FL police or prosecutor, and I will not be eligible to serve on a FL jury.[/quote]

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