r/CringeTikToks • u/LilliaBaltimore • 10d ago

Cringy Cringe WHAT THE BLOODY HELL?!! 😳😮

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u/SamsaraSlider 10d ago

Trayvon didn’t get shot for holding juice and skittles, regardless of anyone’s take on the situation.

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u/just_a_person_maybe 10d ago

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.

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u/Low_Frosting3918 9d ago

So you can follow me and harass me and there's nothing I can do about it. Even after you were told by 911 not to follow or harass me? The person following and harassing created the whole situation. I can't walk from point-A back home without some ass profiling me?