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

Originally Posted by Bruno

Ok from the media circus 'racism' perspective you are correct.
I was just wondering if it had any relevance on the legal proceedings.

Like Crotalus said, it's about motive. If he can be painted to have racial motivations then it can be argued that race was the cause of the shooting and not in self defense, otherwise the self defense argument is more believable.

This is where the media, sadly, really affected the case. NBC played the emergency call without context which certainly made it seem like he had racial motivations, but in the unedited version you can see that Zimmerman was answering a direct question from the emergency dispatcher.