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Originally Posted by Matej
Whether the kid really was doing something suspicious or just happened to be walking down the street would play an important role, but I doubt that can ever be established without reliable witnesses.
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This was not a clean shoot.
The problem is Zimmerman was "neighborhood watch" not "neighborhood confront". He called the police, they told him to go home and they would look into it.
Since the kid had actually done nothing (yet) and Zimmerman had no idea who he was and what not.
You can't call someone a horses ass in a bar and when he stands up shoot him because "self defense". That is what Zimmerman did. He put himself in a conflict situation (confronting the kid) and them used deadly force when (surprise) conflict happened.
Manslaughter, reckless endangerment ect. I don't think Zimmerman intended to hurt or kill the kid, but that doesn't mean he has the right to turn his brain off.