From: SmartMuffin | #046
* Witnesses reported seeing a struggle, and at one point Martin was on top of Zimmerman.
* Zimmerman was bloodied and had grass stains on him.
* The police didn't "just let him go," they interrogated him for several hours and decided his story fleshed out with the witnesses and 911 tapes.
* Zimmerman has previously volunteered as a mentor for two black children.
The first 2 points don't really prove self-defense, they just suggest that he didn't just... shoot Martin in the back or something.
The police weren't thorough, regardless of how long he was held. They didn't even check Martin's cell phone, or they would have known that he was talking to his girlfriend at the time of the incident.
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