Does anyone support zimmerman

Di Maio testified that he did not take into account several witnesses who said Zimmerman was the aggressor in the struggle. He also said, when pressed, that Zimmerman's injuries could have been caused by rolling around on concrete with Trayvon. Zimmerman's attorney, Mark O'Mara, later grilled Sanford City Manager Norton Bonaparte about his decision to play calls from the night of shooting for Trayvon's family in a group setting. A day earlier, former Sanford police chief Bill Lee testified that he recommended the tapes be played to family members individually to avoid improper influences.

We were looking at them as family members. Zimmerman, 29, is charged with second-degree murder in the February shooting. The neighborhood watch volunteer says he acted in self-defense when he shot and killed Trayvon, 17, minutes after calling police to report that he was following a suspicious person in the gated community. Speculation that Zimmerman, who is Hispanic, profiled, followed and murdered the black teen sparked racial controversy and protests around the country last year.

Zimmerman, who faces life in prison if convicted, has maintained that race did not factor into his actions. Before the jury entered the courtroom Tuesday, Judge Debra Nelson held a hearing to determine whether jurors will see a computer animation created by a defense witness. She will give her ruling on the matter Wednesday morning.

Mark O'Mara says the animation presents the fact that Trayvon Martin was shot at a degree angle and supports the way the defense believes the shooting happened. Daniel Schumaker, who created the animation, testified that he has worked on scores of criminal cases, often creating animated crime scene reconstructions using photographs, measurements and motion capture suits.

Schumaker got involved in the Zimmerman case in April after a meeting with defense attorneys. Soon after, he visited the community where the shooting occurred, looked at crime scene photos and used police measurements from that night, he testified.

If the races had been reversed—if a black man had confronted a white teenager, killed him, and then been acquitted on self-defense grounds—would the left have hailed him as a hero? I doubt it. Would those same autograph hounds in Orlando have sought him out? And if black people had then turned out to get his autograph, can you imagine what the reaction on the right would have been?

But over on the right, killing, torture, and perhaps other forms of harm are cause for celebration, so long as these can be justified. In , Republicans cheered Sarah Palin when she stood up for torture. In , they cheered Rick Perry for signing death warrants for record numbers of executions. Morality is not some abstract universal that applies to all people. Tribal morality divides the world into Us and Them. This morality does not extend to Them.

Could it be that as you get farther out on the right, you find more people whose boundaries are more rigid? They are the hard liners who draw hard lines. If you imagine that you live in a world where an attack by Them is always imminent, defending those boundaries becomes very important. About Us. B2B Publishing. Business Visionaries. Hot Property. Times Events. Times Store. Facebook Twitter Show more sharing options Share Close extra sharing options.

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