[quote=CardiffBaseball][quote=SK in CV][quote=no_such_reality]
As it’s unrealistic to think getting out of your car to ask someone what they’re doing at night in your neighborhood is going to get you a ground and pound beat down.
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I don’t think there is any evidence that it happened that way. Zimmerman didn’t simply get out of his car, he followed him. Who threw the first punch, nobody knows except Zimmerman and a dead kid. But Zimmerman never got a beat down, at least not the way his attorney would have you believe. Martin may have been on top, but Zimmerman’s head never got beat into the pavement. If it had, he would have had a concussion at least, or more likely knocked unconscious. Maybe even killed. Head pounded into concrete doesn’t leave a couple of small cuts not requiring stitches.
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Nonsense have you ever gotten into fist-fights? Why would you think getting a it’s a done deal to have concussion because you get knocked down, and the guy gets on top and starts to ground and pound. If this were the case every person who’s ever lost a fight would have concussion symptoms. If TM is on top smacking him with punches, it does hurt a little perhaps, but it’s doubtful it will cause a concussion.
I once got ground/pounded by a bully, he had the upper hand, people thought I was finished, I somehow escaped and we got back to our feet. I came in faked a big overhand right meant to load the left side he had ducked a little away from the right and I knocked him out with a left hook he never saw it coming. Spun his head around as he went to the ground I hit him so hard. I’d venture to say he hit my face 25 times? I hit his face once, which one of us is more likely to have concussion symptoms? Being on bottom is more of a nuisance that will cut you up you won’t get a concussion most likely. Same with the head smacking on the pavement nobody said it had to crush his skull, it’s possible he didn’t get a good hold of his head and only grazed it.
Also I bleed like crazy. I had braces on, and the guy was hitting me with his class ring. He was sitting there in a daze not able to stand up for a minute or so, with no blood. A casual observer would say I got my pounded but outside of having braces it didn’t hurt at all and most of it wiped right off.[/quote]
George also has to fear that this crazy attacker
who by beating him illegally and therefore confirmed to be criminal, just as George thought, is going to take his gun and shoot him.
Reasonable doubt can not and was not in anyway threatened and these fantastic sympathy based hypotheticals about what might have happened(but really didn’t) aren’t going to change that.
