Maybe you don't break away, maybe that is the point that you are able to shoot the attacker. If someone is sitting on your chest and ricocheting your head off the sidewalk with punches to the nose obviously your hands are not being restrained. Originally Posted by Billy_SaulI don't disagree with you. The details of the whole altercation have not come out yet. At least I have not read anything on it and I look for articles on the case. If Zimmerman states that and all the evidence backs him up, it will be hard disprove.
Zimmerman's actions before and after the shooting show a rather mentally disturbed person, IMHO.
"Then came 2005, and a series of troubles. Zimmerman's business failed, he was arrested, and he broke off an engagement with a woman who filed a restraining order against him.
That July, Zimmerman was charged with resisting arrest, violence, and battery of an officer after shoving an undercover alcohol-control agent who was arresting an under-age friend of Zimmerman's at a bar. He avoided conviction by agreeing to participate in a pre-trial diversion program that included anger-management classes.
In August, Zimmerman's fiancee at the time, Venica Zuazo, filed a civil motion for a restraining order alleging domestic violence. Zimmerman reciprocated with his own order on the same grounds, and both orders were granted. The relationship ended."
As many have stated, Zimmerman broke just about every neighborhood watch rule in his confrontation with Martin.
IMHO, Zimmerman is a good man who got caught up in protecting his neighborhood, which had seen a drastic increase in crime recently. In following Martin and eventually confronting him, he initiated the sequence of events that led to Martin's death. Had he followed neighborhood watch protocol, and followed the advice of the 911 phone responder, a young, innocent boy would be alive today.