So, that’s pretty crazy; George Zimmerman had disappeared after the verdict and now emerges to rescue a family from a car accident. I saw a lot of heads exploding over this one, because many people need Zimmerman to be a cartoonish monster to fit their simple narratives. If you were to approach the case in a rational manner, it’s pretty easy to see that Zimmerman is not a white-Hispanic Hitler and Trayvon is no saint, but some people are too invested in battles on racial animosity to look at it that way.
You can argue that Zimmerman made a mistake when he followed Trayvon — a mistake that eventually led to Trayvon’s death — but this idea that Zimmerman was malicious and decided to kill Trayvon has no basis in reality (and is why the murder two charges were so ridiculous). By the evidence, Zimmerman never chose to kill Trayvon — that choice was taken out of his hands when Trayvon started bashing his head against the pavement.
But Zimmerman is now an outcast. And he wanders this nation saving people, hoping to atone for the life he took.
Or at least that’s my new show pitch.
How about “Kung Fu: The Latino Returns” instead?
Can’t remember where I saw it but someone tweeted (paraphrasing):
The most famous half Latino-American saves 4 lives.
The most famous half African-American refuses to save 4 lives.
You never see Zimmerman and Batman in the same room together? Just sayin
had the saintly Trayvon’s hands had been better guided and had found a corner of the sidewalk, Sanford FL would have an unsolved homicide and a murderous thug running around with a stolen handgun. But on the bright side, I would not have any idea that Florida even had a town named Sanford. Aaah, I remember simpler times.
The only reason I knew of Sanford before all this is because that’s where the Amtrak station is that is the southern terminus of the Auto Train that we took several times when I was a kid.