We know he was angry because he thought, "These assholes. They always get away."
There is no hint of anger in Zimmerman's voice in the tapes that exist. What you have here is an attitude or thought process, but not his emotional state at the time, which you are assuming without supporting evidence because it a nice fit for your ideological template, which is all that really matters for you, not the facts or evidence of the case.
Are you suggesting that the pysical violence started "from a distance"?
No. Martin more than likely approached Zimmerman, confronted him for daring, as a security guard, to follow a young black man loitering around in a gated community in which he was not a resident, and then attacked him. And given Martin's history and his social networking record, there is little doubt in my mind, at this juncture, that the attack was probably racially motivated, to a substantial extent. Martin, so far as any evidence we now have, had no reason to feel in any way threatened by Zimmerman, unless he felt threatened by the possibility of coming into contact with the criminal justice system, which Zimmerman represented.
threatened by a vigilante that was stocking him.
This is an excellent example, and a fine teaching moment, of why Nazism, fascism, and socialism are all sibling ideologies at whose core lies the complete rejection of the entire moral and rational basis of law and criminal justice in a free, open, rule of law based constitutional republic, or representative democracy of any kind.
I have encountered precisely this same vigilante (yes, YOU, Buffalo, Eric, and the rest of the Left are the real vigilantes here,inciting a lynch mob mentality in the absence of any substantive evidence supporting your case, passing vast, sweeping moral and evidential judgements against Zimmerman while having no actual knowledge of what actually occurred that night at all, smearing him with negative, pejorative labels, and all in the face of a growing body of evidence that critically weakens your perspective) mentality and attitude in some people I've talked to recently in person, in which, absent any substantial material evidence, in blithe disregard of the actual evidence that already exists, and without the slightest idea what they're talking about, have tried, convicted, and lynched George Zimmerman without a trial, without a jury of his peers, and without a shred of real evidence substantiating their heated bigotries in this matter.
George Zimmerman was a community watch coordinator for the gated community in which he lived. He was part of a neighborhood watch group in that community. He was, in essence, a security guard. His sole purpose for being out and about that night was to protect his community from criminals and thugs like Trayvon Martin, regardless of their skin color. He was supposed to be their and supposed to be following and observing the activities of a young man prowling around the community in which he was not a resident.
You and other leftists terming him a "vigilante" are engaging in nothing more than a public intellectual and political lynching based on nothing more than suspicion (mostly ideological in nature), wild leaps of subjective extrapolation, and emotional fever grounded in deep political prejudices against and for carefully selected racial collectives. Community watch groups
are not vigilantes on any kind (these are not
your kind of community watch groups, like those in Cuba). These are but the standard tactics of totalitarians and ideological thugs everywhere, including among the American Left, who see the world divided up into dichotomous collective oppressed/oppressor groups in which the actual behavior or conditions surrounding an incident like this simply do not matter. What matters is that Martin was black, and, as such by definition, gets to wear the white hat, and Zimmerman, as a light skinned Hispanic, gets to wear the black hat.
To the Left, the actual situation and what actually happened are of no consequence. What matters is the ideological narrative that can be extracted from it and used as a weapon of further political warfare.
This isn't about race--it's about murder. Why do you insist that it is about race? Could it be....racism?
The only people concerned about race at all in this thing are leftists just as yourself. No one else. And now you've just descended into overt prevarication. Its not about murder, for you, Analytics, and you know very well it isn't. Its about two abstract classes in a grand theoretical morality play locked in mortal combat in an unfair, rigged, capitalist society within which racism is an integral part of its superstructure.
Little else explains the way in which the Left, across the board, jumped into this fray without the slightest idea of what had actually happened, minus any substantive evidence or facts, based partly upon a doctored tape concocted by the very same kinds of leftists that dominate most of the news media, the academy, and this board (and who would have very probably done exactly the same thing with that tape had they been the one's controlling its presentation), and founded upon nothing more than that the person killed was black, and the shooter Hispanic.
Now, had the victim been Hispanic, and the shooter white, the same firestorm, based upon the same reactive ideological tropes present in the media and the pop culture, would have also occurred. If the victim had been white and the shooter black or Hispanic, the incident would never have moved beyond the local news broadcasts of Sanford and surrounding communities. Further, if the victim had been white and the shooter Hispanic, the leftist media would never have found it necessary to invent a new ideologically useful racial category, that of "white Hispanic" to characterize his racial background.
All animals are equal, but some animals are, indeed, more equal than others.