<p>It has nothing to do with people’s inability to accept the verdict. He is in the news and will be for a long time because he became a media spectacle. Same as we heard about every Joey Buttafuocco **** ups for years after.</p>
<p>I love this quote from Happy Place website. It fell under the heading, “5 People Who Totally Ruined This Week For Us”. </p>
<p>“Every time we forget he ever existed he rears his ugly head again by speeding, or carrying a weapon, or by committing acts of domestic abuse. But what’s far, far more annoying than Zimmerman himself are the Zimmerman apologists, who pop up every time he almost gets arrested or for real gets arrested (not my choice of words, I’m quoting), to point out that just because he’s clearly a violent and unstable person does not mean that he wasn’t totally justified in shooting an unarmed teenager.”</p>
<p>Uhm, an angry, troubled 6-foot-tall teenager who jumped out and punched him in the nose and was pounding his head into the concrete after being kicked out of school for alleged theft and drug abuse and was sent to live with his dad’s girlfriend because his mother couldn’t control him. That part is very important.</p>
<p>Keep apologizing for George. I’m sure it will help him as his life spins further out of control.</p>
<p>See. To me what is important is that Zimmerman followed him. With a loaded weapon. No following, no shooting, no death. </p>
<p>Bad law</p>
<p>At this point GZ probably even more feels like he needs to carry a weapon. </p>
<p>That he allows himself to get into these situations, given the media eye on him shows he’s not the brightest guy around, and is clearly highly stressed right now.</p>
<p>Whatever anyone’s opinion is on what happened here, the jury who weighed the case gave their verdict and he is innocent. That he is a public figure because of the publicity is something he has to endure and he is not enduring this well at all.</p>
<p>So, I’m not a GZ apologist or fan but I did watch the entire trial from beginning to end and I do realize that people get hung up on this following thing but according to the evidence TM was home and came back to the complex thus the following was not a factor. He didn’t just haul off and shoot him. Why get yourself beaten up before shooting if that’s the plan? I agree he’s an idiot but it doesn’t make any sense and the prosecution couldn’t make it make sense so they yelled about a child with candy until the dummy of the so-called child came out. Then it was all over. It was a simple self-defense case. I have no opinion on SYG.</p>
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<p>I cannot possess guns at this point while he is awaiting trial. He is wearing a monitor.</p>
<p>He is not guilty. </p>
<p>Look there are a lot of things a guy like this could do to redeem himself. He took a life. He owes a lot. </p>
<p>I see nothing to indicate remorse. </p>
<p>My grandfather fought in the pacific theater in WWII. His whole life he did charitable work on behalf of the Japanese. When I asked him why? </p>
<p>“I took a lot of lives. I owe a lot.” He was in a war, but he still understood life is precious. Not just our own</p>
<p>GZ can’t “legally” carry a gun now because of court order. The people walking around Walmart in baggy pajama pants at night wear them to help cover up their electronic ankle bracelets and concealed handguns.</p>
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<p>I meant to say “He” referring to Zimmerman cannot possess. I can possess all the guns I want, I just don’t see the need.</p>
<p>I agree with you Poetgrl. 100%. I don’t think GZ’s head and heart are there, however. I don’t see anything good in the future for him. </p>
<p>Your grandfather is a great man. I bow to him.</p>
<p>When I read about things like this, I try to dissociate what I know. So if this were just another guy - a “jag” - I’d think badly of him, probably would label him as scumbag. </p>
<p>I understand that some people become invested in a person - him versus identifying with the other guy - but that leads to some incoherent defenses. I’ve seen allegations that he’s being set up by “liberals” and other nonsense that really belongs in the category of - you know, don’t you? - that Lee Oswald’s head was removed and placed on the body in the grave so we would be convinced it was him. </p>
<p>I’m not surprised but am continually left agape at the ability of people to connect things irrationally and their inability to recognize that x doesn’t mean y.</p>
<p>I don’t even mind calling him a scumbag but there seems to be an effort to prove he’s guilty of murder after all by pointing to things as unrelated as speeding tickets and alleged clashes with questionable women. I completely agree x doesn’t mean y.</p>
<p>I’m not trying to prove he’s guilty of anything. </p>
<p>He killed someone. Don’t you think that would change you? Don’t you think if you killed someone, you’d stop pointing guns at people. </p>
<p>I’m not saying he’s guilty, but he is responsible</p>
<p>poetgrl, exactly. GZ has exhibited zero remorse. Remember, “these a**holes always get away.” It’s always someone else’s fault. He feels he owes nothing to anyone.</p>
<p>Well, actually he IS guilty of shooting and killing someone. That part has never been in dispute.</p>
<p>And he DOES have a history of acting out in bursts of anger, although charges have been dropped and people have declined to press charges in the past.</p>
<p>And he has not been a model citizen in the months since his trial ended.</p>
<p>Knowing all that…</p>
<p>In the next few months, when he is arrested for violating the terms of his bail: with an illegal handgun in his possession, standing on the front porch of either his wife or girlfriend, either pounding on the door or in the midst of a verbal or physical confrontation, who will be surprised?</p>
<p>Remember, “these a**holes always get away.” It’s always someone else’s fault. He feels he owes nothing to anyone. </p>
<p>Well, he was referring to the neighborhood burglars who had always gotten away. I guess I’m missing the point again.</p>
<p>I do think killing someone would change you but since we know nothing of what he was like before or after that incident how do we decide whether he has changed. Because he was speeding twice and got in some kind of fight with as girlfriend? That tells me nothing.</p>
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<p>Yes, you are. The point is that he was profiling TM as a neighborhood burglar without ANY justification. And then he pursued him with a gun, and didn’t let the police do their job. And eventually an unarmed young man who wasn’t a neighborhood burglar was dead.</p>
<p>Profiling is a buzzword.</p>
<p>If someone was lurking around in your backyard on a rainy night looking in the windows after a rash of burglaries you wouldn’t be suspicious? </p>
<p>Interestingly, he was on the phone with police the whole time which is a little odd if you’re planning a killing. And, of course, we don’t know what that kid was doing out there that night do we? Or do you believe he was skipping home with candy? That seems unlikely.</p>