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jlf1961 -> RE: Zimmerman Trial - LIVE (6/28/2013 12:47:11 AM)
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jif post 127: I have one question, why couldnt zimmerman have shot and disabled martin so that he was not a threat? I mean one round through a knee cap and he would be immobilized.
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1) A person who would ask that, has likely not been in a physical fight for over 15 years. We truly can forget. I was in one last month when two yahoos tried to mug me. Though able to drive them out and away with my hands, I had a plenty hard time tracking their moving fists, say nothing of their moving knee caps. And all the time I couldn't be sure if a weapon would emerge.
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jif post 127: I have one question, why couldnt zimmerman have shot and disabled martin so that he was not a threat? I mean one round through a knee cap and he would be immobilized.
2) Perhaps he could have. Or perhaps Zimmerman thought Zimmerman would be unconscious if Zimmerman took time for a circuitous aiming path. Let me tell you, you're not sure when the next strike will put you under. Then you're done. Something I relearned from my recent "fire drill" is that seconds are soooo fleeting. I will live forever with 10 cardinal things I want to have done differently in my fight.
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jif post 127: I have one question, why couldnt zimmerman have shot and disabled martin so that he was not a threat? I mean one round through a knee cap and he would be immobilized.
3) There's incredible adrenalin pumping in the fury of a struggle, plus shouting, sweating, scraping, tearing. It's absolutely nothing like the model of a sniper that you understandably often draw from. The adrenalin changed the shape of my face for about 4 hours after, which I recorded on mirror pictures I took of myself with my phone.
There's nothing like being there.
You seem to have missed my subsequent posts.
When you read his (zimmerman's) version of the events that night, you understand he had enough time to call the police, to ask if he should follow (he was told not to by the dispatcher) and he continued to follow Martin.
In other words, he was clearly not heeding the instructions of law enforcement, and the situation was not so severe that he could make 2 calls to police one immediately before shooting the victim.
Now those facts are by his statement. This means that Martin was no threat before or during those two calls, which begs the question what made Martin go from being no threat to being a threat and needing to be executed? What was the trigger event?
So far, the "trigger" event has not come out. That little fact is what I want to know, and if zimmerman isnt talking then he is hiding something.
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