Originally posted by FlashCube Its not obvious. Martin had legs and could have come back.
If your overall argument is that we don't know what happened, that circumstances could have unfolded in a way that would have led Zimmerman to feel his life was in danger (say, Martin decided to attack the man following him first, attempted to get the gun away, and then . . .), and that we shouldn't be concluding Zimmerman is
guilty at this point, then I agree.
However, with the facts we have, especially factoring in the report of the girl who was on the phone with Martin, there is good reason to suspect that Zimmerman could have antagonized Martin, that Zimmerman made Martin feel HE was under attack, and that Zimmerman used deadly force in the fight that followed, a fight that Zimmerman initiated on a citizen
not engaged in illegal activity.
So it doesn't seem like leaping to conclusions to expect that the police at the very least should take Zimmerman into custody. As someone said earlier, that they didn't take Zimmerman into custody while investigating what happened in a fatality is one of the more disturbing things about all this because ti seems to indicate a trigger happy and possibly racist culture.