My opinion in the state of Louisiana a 17 year old is no longer a kid. A 6+ft tall individual that is on top of you beating your face and smashing your head on the concrete is not going to be looked at as a kid if your taking the beating. Age at that point was of no concern. In prior weeks there had been multiple breakins and burglaries in the neighborhood by....you guessed it a black individual around 6ft tall wearing a hoodie I'll have to go back and check sources to verify that but I'll try and get links for it. So if your on neighborhood watch someone matching the description shows up and you confront them they flee and then sneak back up on you and commence to bouncing your head off the concrete are you gonna ask for their age before you defend yourself?
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Don't forget in the 911 tape he said a suspicious person sneaking between houses apeared to be looking in windows. Also this was a gated community not just an open neighborhood.
The fact of lack of cuts on his head is irrelevant. A concusion hemerage or death can be caused by blunt force trauma without leaving a scratch, the part of him being a kid is negate because I would figure Z didn't ask his age while he was receiving the blows to his face and head. All he saw was a person beating him. He fired his shot to stop the attacker. My guess is he could not hit that same spot again in the same situation. Meaning he fired and bullet landed where it may. I don't condone going out looking for people to shoot but in this case laying on ur back receiving a beating u do what u can to stop it. Who is to say Martin may have been getting up off him when Z fired but how could he know Martin wasn't getting up to kick his teeth in.
Just look at the facts as presented. Take out age take out race see where u land. In this case I land with the defendant.
