Zimmerman Case: Shoot First to be innocent. The Canard of self-defense.

An addendum comes from Ryan Grim on Huffington Post, who pretty well sums up the series of bad decisions in play -- and the seventh, stated ironically, which pretty much sums up how Florida law treated Zimmerman and Martin differently. Martin, Grim says, "could have chosen to not defend himself."

It's important to note that the jury's verdict sends a message to anyone confronted or pursued by another man: If you engage the confrontation, even an act of self defense could be used as justification to shoot and kill you. What led up to the confrontation in the Martin-Zimmerman case was ruled irrelevant; only Zimmerman's state of mind at the time he shot him was to be taken into account by the jury. That doesn't leave someone being followed through their neighborhood many options other than fighting back. 

http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2013/07/racial-bias-and-canard-of-self-defense.html