It's only "a small beating" if you're not on the bottom of some maniac who has you pinned down, is smashing your head into the concrete, and is wailing away MMA style (testimony supported by head wounds). It seems like a small beating now but if you're GZ how are you supposed to know when the maniac doing the beating is gonna quit? How does he know if he's gonna survive that beating? If I was GZ I woulda pulled the trigger in self defense, too.
So you do agree GZ is a pussy then? He is "man" enough to carry a gun in a neighborhood, approach a kid who has done nothing, and can't even defend himself without the use of a weapon? Sorry but that will never make sense to me. I would have a totally different opinion if GZ was sitting on his stoop minding his own business.
terps, GZ was on neighborhood watch because black kids had been breaking into homes in the neighborhood. He was trying to protect his neighborhood and the people in it. Where I come from, that is precisely the job of a man, to protect his (and neighbor's) family and property. Sometimes minding your own business is the cowards way out. It takes a man to defend what should be defended and stand up to bad guys. GZ is a hero in my book. He was trying to do the right thing when the whole thing got out of hand and unintended consequences resulted. That's it. Seems clear as a bell to me after the testimony we've heard.
I think that's my point Terps. We have all looked at this situation as if we were in the situation but none of us really knows. GZ may not have thought it was a small beating. What if he had never been in a fight before? What if he were very weak and very passive? His beating is not the same as our view if that makes sense.
Are you watching the case at all? His name is Jonathan Good and this is what he said...
On the trial’s fifth day, Good recounted being 15 to 20 feet away from the fight between Zimmerman and Martin. Although he couldn’t make out the faces of the people on the ground, Good said he could make out the color of their clothes. In crucial testimony that buttresses the defense’s argument, Good said the person on top of the fight was wearing a black top like the black hoodie sweatshirt Martin was wearing that night, and the person on the bottom was wearing red. Zimmerman was wearing a similar color that night.
Good said it seemed that the person on the bottom was yelling for help. Good said he saw the person on top “straddling” the person on the bottom, and the person on top was moving his hands in a downward striking motion that looked like what he called a “ground and pound,” a term associated with MMA, or mixed-martial arts fighting.
Did he have the gun drawn? Do you really think he was planning on using that gun when he asked some guy who he had never seen in his neiborhood before what he was doing? He was taking a beating over asking a question. He was getting his head smashed into concrete. He got his nose broken. He was under the guy beating the crap out of him. I'm sure the thought went through his head, what would happen if Trayvon came across the gun. Was GZ, who appears to be much bigger than Trayvon a whimp for failing completely in that fight? Maybe. But like Enfuego said there are all kinds of people out here who haven't a clue how to defend themselves with their body and fists. He shot the guy who was beating the crap out of him before the guy either killed him with his fists or found the gun and killed him that way. He was a hero because he was defending something good against something bad. Period.
