Trayvon Martin
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These stories that are coming out - do you think they're relevant, or not relevant? Personally, I think painting a picture of a person's character is really difficult in situations like this. Does anything in his past warrant him being murdered? Absolutely not. Does being caught with burglary tools, or a graffiti marker directly connect to what happened the night he was killed? No, of course not. But does the collective amount of things he may have gotten in trouble for help cast doubt in people's minds that he had no potential for doing something wrong the night he was killed? Yeah, probably.
One side wants to point the finger at Zimmerman for being a racist murdering vigilante way outside the limits of the law. The other side wants to find any shred of evidence that proves Martin was out breaking into houses and committing a crime serious enough to warrant Zimmerman's actions. A person is still dead, and there will be a serious division between what people believe happened, and what warranted his death in Zimmerman's mind as he shot him in self defense.