Because he was black.

I'm not sure that this guy Zimmerman should be a neighborhood watch captain in the Florida city of Sanford. Because he shot dead an unarmed 17-year-old because he thought the boy was a 'threat.' Didn't matter, I guess, that Zimmerman outweighed the boy by 100 pounds. You'd think that a tough and brazen fella that acts like a policeman could handle an unarmed lightweight teenager in a less lethal way. No need for a gun, really. That is, if he knew what he was doing. And maybe he did. Thinking that it was better to kill a black youth. Maybe just because he was black. --Jim Broede