I watched as many minutes of the George Zimmerman trial as were televised - thankfully I have a DVR - and I have to say, if you believe the evidence presented by both sides, I don't see how they could have arrived at a verdict other than Not Guilty. In the end, and I've said this previously in other posts, there are no winners, but there is a loser, and that is the kid who is in the ground.
It is easy for a trial like this to polarize people, but that is a mistake. Instead, this should serve as an opportunity to bring into the national consciousness the issue of racial profiling -- of which I believe Zimmerman to be guilty. A seventeen year old (or any person) of any color or creed should, in this and any other country, enjoy the right to walk unmolested through any public area, and no one should hinder his passage based on his race, gender or appearance. The mindset that people of a certain race, religion, appearance, or any other externality are natural suspects and should be preemptively detained because they are "out of place" should be offensive to every person of reason.
The existence of racial profiling is indicative of a serious blight on our Nation, and if any good comes of the Zimmerman trial, it would be that it serve as the starting point for greater dialogues on racial prejudice, and the difficult question of how it could come to pass that a young man was called out for merely being present, and died defending his right to be there.