Zimmerman not guilty

Let the riots begin.

The media would love that just as much as they love what they created with this case.

And that is the way it should be. I applaud these 6 women for making the only logical decision possible.

Just heard Jesse Jackson on CNN call on the DOJ to start proceedings against Zimmerman as a hate crime. How ridiculous is that? I expect a wrongful death civil suit also.

If anyone should just get out of the country, it's Zimmerman. I don't know if he'll ever have a life here. I doubt he has enough money though.

Call me goofy but I was reading on the other forum about how pissed the Blacks were and Oats and crew seemed to be pumping up the fear factor. Sooooo I took a ride on my bicycle around Lexington Terrace, the bad section off Gulf Beach Hiway and a couple of laps around the Trailer park at the end of my street. No problems at all. Everyone waved back, shared the roads and side walks. I stopped at talked with a Black guy I know that sells stuff and we just chatted for awhile. No one even brought the subject of Zimmerman up. Just another day in the hood here.

They "protested" in southern California by blocking I-10. If I'm in my car on I-10 just trying to get home, how am I going to sympathize with these idiots?
But it's refreshing to see that most people, black/white/Hispanic/white Hispanic, are just going on with life as normal.

According to the LA Times,


When deliberations began in George Zimmerman's nationally scrutinized Florida trial, the six female jurors were evenly divided on his guilt, according to the first juror to speak out about the case.

In an initial vote inside the jury room in Seminole County, Fla., three thought he was not guilty, two thought he was guilty of manslaughter, and one thought he was guilty of second-degree murder in the 2012 killing of Trayvon Martin, 17.

Then, Juror B37 said, the jury pored over the evidence, waded through the law and ultimately decided to acquit Zimmerman.

"I think he’s guilty of not using good judgment," the juror said in an exclusive interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper on Monday. Juror B37 announced earlier in the day that she plans to write a book about her experience.

In her interview with Cooper, she said, “I had no doubt George feared for his life in the situation he was in."

Not that Zimmerman got off easy in the jury room. A couple of the jurors "wanted to find him guilty of something," said the juror, who remained nameless and faceless in the dark of Cooper's studio.

Ultimately, picking through the jury instructions, and the legalese of Florida's murder, manslaughter and self-defense laws, the women could not find a crime that fit Zimmerman's apparent actions, she said. And once the jurors voted not guilty, they broke down in tears, she said.

“It was just hard, thinking that somebody lost their life, and there’s nothing else could be done about it," said the juror. "It’s what happened -- is sad. It’s a tragedy it happened, but it happened.”

She added, “It’s just sad that we all had come together and figure out what is gonna happen to this man’s life afterward: You find him not guilty, but you’re responsible for that 'not guilty' and all the people who want him guilty aren’t going to have any closure.”

Cooper asked if she felt sorry for Trayvon Martin. "I feel sorry for both of them," she answered. "I feel sorry for Trayvon, and the situation he was in, and I feel sorry for George because of the situation he got himself in.”

Juror B37 had been in the spotlight earlier Monday on news that she had signed with the Los Angeles-based Martin Literary Management agency, as announced by the agency’s president, Sharlene Martin. The juror said she had not taken the book deal to make money.

Cooper said CNN did not pay the juror for her interview.

In the voir dire phase of the trial, Juror B37 said that she was a mother of two, that she once had a concealed weapons permit, and that she disdained the media because “newspapers are just not truthful.” She also said she owned “three dogs, four cats, a parrot, a crow with one wing, and two lizards.”

In her interview with Cooper, she said she thought Zimmerman had been driven to recklessness in pursuing Martin by a string of burglaries in his Sanford, Fla., neighborhood, but also thought that Martin could have walked away from the confrontation.

“I think both could have walked away; it just didn’t happen," the juror told Cooper. "It’s very emotional."

Five of the jurors thought the voice who cried out on 911 recordings belonged to Zimmerman, while the sixth was unsure, the juror said. She also said Martin threw the first punch.

"I think George got in a little too deep, which, he shouldn’t have been there," the juror said. "But Trayvon decided he wasn’t going to let him scare him … and I think Trayvon got mad and attacked him.”

Regarding Martin's comment over the phone to friend and witness Rachel Jeantel that the man following him, Zimmerman, was a "creepy-ass cracker," the juror said she didn't hold the comment against Martin.

“I don’t think it’s really racial," the juror told Cooper. "I think it’s everyday life type of life they live and how they’re living, and the environment they’re living in.”

Juror B37 said she was unaware what a lightning rod the case had become. When the trial was over and the no-longer sequestered jurors left the hotel, she said, "it was like Disney World" with all the media around.

Lunacy...  There is a picture of a black woman carrying a sign that states "being black is not a crime", while the mob with her is breaking windows and looting... well, duh!


LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Protesters ran through Los Angeles streets Monday night, breaking windows, attacking people on sidewalks and at one point raiding a Wal-Mart store, while others blocked a major freeway in the San Francisco Bay Area in the third night of demonstrations in California over George Zimmerman's Florida acquittal in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.

Thirteen people were arrested after multiple acts of vandalism and several assaults in Los Angeles' Crenshaw District, Mayor Eric Garcetti and Police Chief Charlie Beck said at a news conference.

Zimmerman seems far from being a racist. Rioters, don't let facts get in your way...

None of that matters to people who have decided that Zimmerman is a racist monster.

If Trayvon's family tries to sue Zimmerman on a civil basis, I understand that lots of info that couldn't be introduced during the original trial... will be introduced.  

Such as Trayvon's fighting, gun picture, drug use, and Zimmerman's actions, like the black prom date, picketing against black injustice, etc.

It's all being done to keep it going....the media and The Most Reverend Jesse Jackass. The Martins received a million dollar settlement from the housing complex.

Zimmerman's lawyers have said that if the Martin's bring a civil suit against their client, that will invoke the stand your ground law which would make Zimmeerman immune for the suit.