When I have the opportunity to listen to talk radio my usual selection for "after Rush" is a station out of Tampa. The
guy is lightly syndicated so he has an audience in several states and does a fairly good job...better IMO than Hannity. (I listen to him via the iPhone app, I Heart Radio)
Yesterday, this story was going hot and heavy since it's a Florida story...
A few things to consider:
1. George Zimmerman does not appear to be caucasian. Despite his name he appears to be hispanic. Here is a picture:
I don't know if this makes a difference or not but until I heard this point mentioned on the talk show I assumed that the shooter was white...which fits, of course, the media narrative. The victim is young (17) and did not live in the neighborhood...he was reportedly visiting family or friends in the neighborhood.
2. The shooter is using a Florida self defense law called "stand your ground" and this is mentioned (by way of a link) in the above Blaze article. This law allows a person to shoot an attacker rather than requiring that they retreat. But...
3. There is very strong evidence that the shooter did not merely stand his ground but instead was the actual aggressor in the encounter. I heard a recorded 911 call on the talk show where the shooter calls police to report a suspicious person. He describes the person running away from him (the victim was returning home from a convenience store with a drink and a snack) and asks the dispatcher if he should follow him. The dispatcher tells him to NOT pursue. He apparently disregarded the instructions from the 911 dispatcher.
Here is a youtube with the complete audio from the 911 call...
4. There had been a string of burglaries in the area which apparently prompted the neighborhood watch program...of which Zimmerman was a part...
5. If you listen closely to the audio of the 911 call (at around the 1:37 mark) you can hear him say, "These assholes. They always get away," which appears to be followed (at the 2:23 mark) by "These f**kin' coons."
6. There were no eye witnesses to the shooting. Plenty of audio, though. Apart from the girl who was on the phone with the victim at the time of the shooting there were audio recordings made by people in the surrounding houses. I heard those on the talk show yesterday and you can hear the gunshot when it happens.
What does all this mean? The shooter looks guilty to me but I will let a jury sort it out.