Zimmerman to be charged in Trayvon Martin Case!

Explains, in part, why Zimmerman wanted to keep an eye on Trayvon Martin. The entire article is just so different from the initial reporting, it's well worth reading.

 

Why did he want to keep an eye on Martin?

Because a young black guy stole a laptop and has a criminal record?

 

I'm hoping you're being sarcastic. We once had a rash of incidents in my neighborhood. The neighborhood started a neighborhood watch, and anyone that we hadn't seen before.... everyone watched. An unfamiliar face, with most of his head covered with a hood, given a recent string of events - and people are surprised Zimmerman was paying attention to him? WTF?

 

Did you read the article? His community ASKED him to keep out an eye on people that seemed like strangers in complex.

Doesn't change that he shot him, or the circumstances around it, but clearly, if you actually read the entire article, he wasn't just hunting down a black kid.

 

YES HE WAS. HE SHOULD HAVE ASSUMED 8 year old Trayvon was a harvard law school prodigy! He could have been! :MARIS61:

SKITTLES!

 

I wouldn't rule that out, actually. Have you ever tried it? So much fun.

(And for your humorless fukks, yes, that was sarcasm.)

 

My mom said that black people don't go to college - unless it's to play sports.

 

I'm guessing there were no skittles and iced tea. I figure we would have seen some 7-11 surveillance footage or information from a clerk who worked at the 7-11.

 

So if this was a white kid wearing a polo, does he deserve attention.

Got no problem with the idea of neighborhood watch, but when it crosses the line into law enforcement, I think there are problems. There is a reason police are trained about stereotyping and why it is such a big issue. There are goods and bads to stereotyping, but one should be trained in the area at the very least.

My fear is Zimmerman approached this kid with the assumption he was already up to no good because he is a black kid in a hoodie. If you approach someone with that attitude and the kid isn't doing what he is being presumed he is doing, bad things are going to happen from both individuals.

I know I wounldn't appreciate it if Zimmerman approached me with any kind of attitude and started asking me questions. If I thought he was there to shake me down, I would have given him hell . . . and might of ended up with a bullet in my head. Scary society all the way around.

 

Zimmerman and his racist buddies made a movie about it.

 

Really though, did you read the article?

 

Dude, we watched EVERYONE that came through our neighborhood that we didn't recognize. I don't know why you're surprised he was being watched. Everything beyond that, we don't know anything about, but I wouldn't have expected things to end the way they did. But from my experience with neighborhood watch, it's not shocking that a new person strolling through the neighborhood with a hood on garnered some attention. We used to even have a neighborhood watch on that had a person from shoulders up, with a hoodie on. Not saying that people in hoodies are criminal, as I wear them daily, but come on, given the recent string of events, you see an unfamiliar face in your neighborhood, hoodie up, it'd get my attention. One of the things a hoodie is used for is concealment.

For you to get worked up by someone coming up and asking you questions.... You're as tightly wound as the trigger man. Answer the question, and move on.

 

Yeah, it was a gated community. people know who lives there and who doesn't, especially if you're on neighborhood watch. duh.

 

Neighborhood watch programs are inherently racist and violent. It's best to just let your homes be broken into and hve your property stolen. If you're lucky, you may even get a few rapes or brutal beatings in your community, which might bring a few extra patrols from the cops. The best approach is to just ignore the problem, isolate yourselves from your neighbors, and hope your house isn't next.

 

Treyvon was 8 months old, I doubt he could break into a home.

 

BS . . . I don't have to answer questions. I know you and the neighborhood watch want me to play your game, but last I saw a neighborhood watch person has no right to stop me and make me answer questions. If you want to say that is tightly wound, I don't give a shit. Leave me alone to myself and i don't bother anyone and no one bothers me. Like it or not, that is what each person has the constitutional right to.

Then add to the mix that in whatever wisdon was being used that the home owners association asked a person with anger issues who has been arrested for resisting arrest to head this watch . . . this is why this should be a police function. Law enforcement would not put someone who has been chsrged with crimes and had to go through programs including anger control to deal with his issues.

I mean this hoem owners association is going to put a guy on the street who has been arrested for violent crime, carries a gun and allows him to break their own rules?

The homeowners association asked him to launch a neighborhood watch, and Zimmerman would begin to carry the Kel-Tec on his regular, dog-walking patrol - a violation of neighborhood watch guidelines but not a crime.

This homeowners association are a bunch of paniced knucleheads who clearly did not react properly to burglaries in the area. They are part resonsible for giving someone like that any kind or authority and permission to violate guidelines. How above the law was this guy feeling?

 

It's the only way to prove you're not a racist!

 

New photos surface of Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman from the day of the shooting.

 

George Zimmerman:

 

Zimmerman didn't stop Trayvon Martin or ask him questions.

Did you read the article?