George Zimmerman leaves the courtroom after the state's closing arguments during his trial in Seminole circuit court in Sanford, Florida July 11, 2013.
Reuters
"Wannabe cop" George Zimmerman wrongly profiled Trayvon Martin as a criminal, followed him with a gun and provoked him into a fight that resulted in the shooting death of the unarmed black teenager, a prosecutor said on Thursday.
"A teenager is dead," Florida state prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda told the jury in closing arguments of Zimmerman's second-degree murder trial. "He is dead through no fault of his own. He is dead because another man made assumptions. Because his assumptions were wrong, Trayvon Benjamin Martin will no longer walk on this Earth."
Sounding indignant, de la Rionda portrayed Zimmerman as a predator, not the good citizen who, as portrayed by the defense, was attacked by a 17-year-old whose actions led to his own death.
Martin would be alive if he had gone into the house where he was staying instead of doubling back and starting a physical fight with Zimmerman.
ReplyDeleteWe don't know that's what he did. Zimmerman lied so much it's hard to know even what he said happened.
DeleteI'm thinking more and more that I was wrong about the acquittal.
You don't have to listen to what Zimmerman said. Listen to the tape. You have roughly 15 seconds of pursuit followed by 90 seconds of non-pursuit. Why are you do afraid to even address this piece of evidence.
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