He doesn't clearly say "f**king coons". He is clearly a douche and like I said before, he probably murdered this kid for no good reason. But we need proof of guilt for a conviction in this country, not just a dead kid and an asshat holding a smoking a gun.
even the guy who wrote the "stand your ground" law says that the 911 call provides probable cause for an arrest. He said the law does not give you the right to pursue someone and then find yourself in a situation where you can then claim self-defense.
The scandal here is the local PD. They didn't even bother to check the kid's cellphone to notify his family logging him as a John Doe. And amazingly the kid's body was tested for drugs and alchohol but the shooter wasn't. They even let him keep his loaded gun. If this didn't become a news item, this whole thing would have just gone away and this guy would have got away with murder.
That may have been the intent of the law when he wrote it, but it's not written in the law. The law says:
The law never says that if you pursue a suspicious person and then have to defend yourself that the justification doesn't apply.
It SHOULD say that, but it doesn't. If the law isn't rewritten as a result of this, I'd be surprised.
I'm not saying the guy won't be found guilty - I'm just saying that there's a decent chance that he won't be found guilty.
After reviewing the Florida law I really doubt it applies here.
The section of 776.012 that you quoted doesn't apply because, with the victim being quite obviously unarmed, any belief Zimmerman might have had that the use of deadly force was required to defend himself was utterly unreasonable.
Furthermore, note 776.013 (3):
The emphasis is mine. Blatantly ignoring the instructions of the 911 dispatcher is a clear case of obstruction of justice; Zimmerman was thus "engaging in an unlawful activity" at the time of the incident and as soon as that's proven in a court of law, Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law will not apply to him in the slightest. Therefore, he still had a duty to retreat and was unjustified in the use of deadly force.
(Sorry if this is post is a bit rambling, btw, i've been up almost 48 hours at this point).
