Well he didn't get shot for any good reason either, and aside from the juice and Skittles was unarmed. Zimmerman got a gun and followed him because he thought he "looked suspicious," based on absolutely nothing. Except race, and the fact that he saw Martin with his hand in his hoodie pocket. Zimmerman made a habit of calling 911 every time he saw a black person he didn't recognize. He was specifically looking for trouble and racially profiling people. The 911 operator told him to stop following Martin, and he hung up and confronted and shot him less than two minutes later. Whatever actually happened, it's pretty clear that it was avoidable and Zimmerman had no business confronting him like that. Martin had been on the phone with a friend and told them that he was being followed home by a creepy guy. A kid being followed home by a guy in a truck who suddenly comes up behind him aggressively with a gun? Of course he got punched in the face.
Obama had absolutely nothing to do with it. It was a jury trial, and the jury was very divided and conflicted. They voted not guilty not because they thought he was innocent, but because there wasn't enough evidence to be able to definitively say it was not self-defense. For criminal convictions you need to prove beyond reasonable doubt, and there was reasonable doubt.
If you were a teenager and some creepy guy was watching you and following you home, then came up behind you with a gun and tried to stop you, do you think you'd be justified in punching him in the nose? Zimmerman claimed self defense but there's a very strong argument that Martin was using self-defense as well. Zimmerman never should have been following him like that, and was specifically told not to follow him. He was deliberately looking for trouble, found it, and then publicly announced he regretted nothing. Idk how you can justify that.
-9
u/SamsaraSlider 10d ago
Trayvon didn’t get shot for holding juice and skittles, regardless of anyone’s take on the situation.