So everything that's happened to him is everybody else's fault? You can't be serious.
I wish him better... why?
Backlash... from watching the public call for the guy's head.
Backlash... against the idea that he shouldn't have defended himself.
He was severely wronged and damaged. Won a trial and still lost... everything. That could have been anyone of us out there that night. Attacked by a teen, and then by a lawless mob.
You think he has his life on track with employment / college / personal relationships after becoming a public enemy with a target on his back? Even if he had the potential to be unstable before, as something that's part of him, going through hell isn't going to help.
Where are the bleeding heart types now, to understand and sympathize with a guy who tried to have his !@#$ together - but now is facing too great of odds to be able to cope with it?
I see a guy who could be a good citizen, who tried to protect his neighborhood from crime, got into trouble, and now is teetering on the edge of an abyss. These run-ins with the law prove that the folks in his personal life just aren't cutting it, he's not getting the help he needs.
A lot of folks appear to be eager to see him fall, but at what price? What does that say about us as a society if we are unable to help people get their lives back together? Are we agents of order or chaos? Do we help or harm others?
What sort of society do you want us to be?
I wish him better... why?
Backlash... from watching the public call for the guy's head.
Backlash... against the idea that he shouldn't have defended himself.
He was severely wronged and damaged. Won a trial and still lost... everything. That could have been anyone of us out there that night. Attacked by a teen, and then by a lawless mob.
This guy seems to not want to help himself; we as a society can help but the person, in this case GZ, has to want the help. His actions before/during/after the TM incident suggest that he does not want help.
You can lead a pig to the trough but you can't make him eat.
No, that couldn't have been any if us; I wouldn't have followed TM to begin with. In this recent case I wouldn't have thrown a bottle or anything else at my girlfriend.
So his continued bad behavior is caused by the public? I guess when people talk about taking personal reaponsibility and not acting like a thug, that only applies to black people, everyone else gets a pass because "the public".
You can avoid justice but you can't run from karma
What's that supposed to mean?
I would say it's almost definitional that a pig doesn't need to be told to eat.
Definitely sounds like GZ may have some anger issues but to be fair he has been through a fuckload of stuff and has had his life under a microscope ever since. If anyone on here would have gotten into a bar fight with a plain clothes officer and a year (or whatever) later threw a bottle at their girlfriend, missing her (so it is possible that he didn't intend on hitting her) none of us would have read national news stories about it.
Hopefully the judge makes him do some sort of anger management or something. If I was him I would be doing everything possible to make sure no one hears a peep out of me and I'd be working on my book/movie deals. Getting into bar fights and throwing wine bottles is just beyond stupid.
I agree with a lot of that, but being an asshole is his own personal choice. Lots of people are under a lot of stress, and one shouldn't need outside help to not throw wine bottles at or rough up girlfriends. That's a character issue, not a societal problem.You think he has his life on track with employment / college / personal relationships after becoming a public enemy with a target on his back? Even if he had the potential to be unstable before, as something that's part of him, going through hell isn't going to help.
Where are the bleeding heart types now, to understand and sympathize with a guy who tried to have his !@#$ together - but now is facing too great of odds to be able to cope with it?
I see a guy who could be a good citizen, who tried to protect his neighborhood from crime, got into trouble, and now is teetering on the edge of an abyss. These run-ins with the law prove that the folks in his personal life just aren't cutting it, he's not getting the help he needs.
A lot of folks appear to be eager to see him fall, but at what price? What does that say about us as a society if we are unable to help people get their lives back together? Are we agents of order or chaos? Do we help or harm others?
What sort of society do you want us to be?
I can't imagine Hollywood is beating down his door to make a movie from his perspective. Anyone financially rewarding him is going to face retaliation and boycotts. And honestly, what does he bring to the table? We've all heard all the details of the case, and at the end of the day there's a dead 17 year old boy standing between Zimmerman and sympathy. Probably at some former girlfriends, too - as long as he's not holding anything hurlable anyway.Definitely sounds like GZ may have some anger issues but to be fair he has been through a fuckload of stuff and has had his life under a microscope ever since. If anyone on here would have gotten into a bar fight with a plain clothes officer and a year (or whatever) later threw a bottle at their girlfriend, missing her (so it is possible that he didn't intend on hitting her) none of us would have read national news stories about it.
Hopefully the judge makes him do some sort of anger management or something. If I was him I would be doing everything possible to make sure no one hears a peep out of me and I'd be working on my book/movie deals. Getting into bar fights and throwing wine bottles is just beyond stupid.
Too bad that pesky ole US Constitution will require the courts to give him the benefit of the doubt and consider him innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt yet again .
Actually you're the one that can get over this case or the Michael Brown case even though the evidence clearly showed that the jury got it right in both cases.
Hahahahah. The psycho rears his head again.
Is there anyone here who still believes he was innocent in the TM killing?
Well, to be fair to the guy, we have no idea what his life has been like post-TM. For all we know, he receives daily abuse almost everywhere he goes. That would be enough to make most people a little twisted and shorten their internal fuse.
Since I don't know what he's been through, I'm not going to pass judgment on him.
Unfortunately, these are the same incidents that happened before the TM incident. The problem is that a lot of people on this board continue to believe he was an angel that fell from heaving the minute before TM. Go back and look at all the allegations about him before TM in context with what we now know. You'll see there was no change. As we all know adversity reveals character.
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...cle_226d4d13-6a06-5ca5-afdc-b308c970aec2.html
LOL. Case dropped. GF recants statement.
Sounds to me like bitches be crazy.
This guy looks like a friend of mine! If it is him, he definitely misspelled 'morons' on purpose.
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...cle_226d4d13-6a06-5ca5-afdc-b308c970aec2.html
LOL. Case dropped. GF recants statement.
Sounds to me like bitches be crazy.
What is with this guy.. who is protecting him?
First his ex-wife, then two different girlfriends all accuse him of some shit. All three eventually recant their stories and Georgie goes free..