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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf Trayvon had not died and was just seriously wounded and..
pressed charges against Zimmerman for shooting him, what would happen?
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If Trayvon had not died and was just seriously wounded and.. (Original Post)
DCBob
Mar 2012
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zbdent
(35,392 posts)1. my guess would be that he probably would have been arrested for assault ...
baldguy
(36,649 posts)3. Right, he'd be just another gangbanger hoodlum - even though he was neither.
They would have come by that determination simply because he's a young black man. Period.
Logical
(22,457 posts)2. If Trayvon has lived Zimmerman would be in jail.....
I think Trayvon's story would prove Zimmerman tried to detain him and Trayvon resisted and Zimmerman, getting his ass kicked, used the gun.
DCBob
(24,689 posts)4. Thats my guess too.
So the moral of the story is to make sure your opponent is dead so he cant testify. ugh.