No. One. Knows. [View all]

[cherokeeprogressive]

You can make all the claims you want about Trayvon's fears, or Zimmerman's intentions. You can claim to know Zimmerman left his home that night WANTING to kill a black man as the prosecutor stated "he killed Trayvon not because he HAD to, but because he WANTED to.

Truth is?

You can't know. You DON'T know. Absent video combined with audio starting with the first second of the confrontation, NO one can. No one DOES.

I don't give a FUCK about what happens to George Zimmerman. He fucked up. Somehow he found himself in a situation he wasn't prepared to be in. He had a gun, which MAY have emboldened him (again, not being there and NOT being clairvoyant it's impossible to say with 100% certainty) and found his scared ass in a situation where he decided to use it. He's either a BAD ASS (MMA training) or a COWARD (screaming for his life). He can't be both. The DU Jury has at various times tried to claim he IS both coward and bad ass by virtue of his "MMA Training". My guess is COWARD even though he had a loaded gun.

All I can do is GUESS though, and that's all YOU can do as well no matter how certain you think you are about what went down in those few minutes.

The women on the jury heard every word of testimony. Most of us heard some, and relied on news accounts as well as DU posts (I might add that the DAY the word Zimmerman showed up on DU he was considered "white" and convicted) which we used to form our own opinions of whether or not he was guilty.

Now, we blame the women who served on a jury they didn't ask to be part of. They're racists. They lied. They broke the law. They're money-grubbers. They're a group of six who can't know what horrors African-Americans have endured since the inception of this nation.

They sat in the courtroom. We didn't. They didn't ask to. Some DUers would have traded their right arms to.

I think George Zimmerman was guilty of Manslaughter and I'd bet my bottom dollar if that's what he was charged with, he'd be in custody and awaiting a sentencing hearing. That's not what he was charged with though. At the end of the trial, knowing they hadn't made their case, the prosecutors asked the judge to instruct the jurors to consider a lesser charge... one they hadn't attempted to make.

So now we blame them for a miscarriage of justice.

This weekend, there will be violence in 100 cities... bank on it.

Blame who you will, but don't blame those six women.