Law behind George Zimmerman verdict immoral | Letter

Published 11:50 am Wednesday, July 17, 2013

I’m not expert enough to address whether the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin verdict was legally correct but feel confident in saying that if the verdict is correct, the law behind it is morally wrong.

It cannot be okay for a person to start an altercation for non-urgent, non-necessary reasons (such as the bias evidenced by Zimmerman’s racial slur, as recorded on a 911 tape), and then to pull a gun and shoot when they start to lose the fight.

Scott Flagg, Kirkland