Thread: Trayvon Martin (pardon me if this subject is verboten.)

This is a volatile issue, so let's all give each other the benefit of the doubt when replying. It is easy to misunderstand each other.

From a stand your ground perspective, the issue is a mess. As soon as the confrontation was in progress, both could claim protection under that rule, the way it was phrased.
From what I have read so far, race did not really play into it. Trayvon could have been white, hispanic or something else, and it would have gone down like that.
Zimmerman was too hasty and took dangerous initiative that was not required, and one of them ended up dead.

He was not a cop, and there was no evidence of a crime being in progress or people being in danger. As such, there was no real need (moral or otherwise) to engage.
The controverse imo is mainly about the fact that he was not arrested and charged. But that seems to be more the influence of his daddy, rather than a case of institutionalized racism like with the rodney king case.

The sad thing is that both the left and right wing have taken this as a rallying issue, and are spinning propaganda on both sides to further their own agenda.
It has become a media circus.