I would rather have a police officer trained in such matters to handle “suspects” and those “up to no good.” Especially given the robberies in the neighborhood seems to have heightened Zimmerman’s agitation level. That said he has trolled around before… TM was not guilty of those robberies but he paid the price due to the profiling with his life.
Yeah, I would rather have the police deal with those who choose to attack me. But most of the police are too large or too heavy for me to carry in my pocket.
He was alleged to have trolled around before. I’ve seen restraining orders issued based on violence allegations for incidents which happend while the accused was at sea on a boat 100s of miles away.
The HOA had to settle the Wrongful Death suit of TM with TM’s family for their irresponsible “endorsement” of GZ in newsletters.
No, they didn’t have to settle. They could have chosen to fight it. Their insurance company made a risk assessmetn/financial decision on the costs of fighting it vs the cost of the payoff.
He was not trained to get out of his car with a gun and confront someone.
Agreed. And the evidence showed he didn’t.
That’s for the police who made it EXPLICITLY clear they don’t need citizens following people around, " We don’t NEED you to do that."
And he complied, as indicated by the testimony at the trial of even the prosecution witnesses and the tapes they played.
Don’t do it to begin with hopefully everyone knows now.
What everyone knows now is not to help out in your neighborhood or call in suspicious folks because if anything happens, segments of the country will impugn your motives, misrepresent your actions, and use you to further their agenda.
I’m sure every person in that complex who heard what was going on and stayed in their homes are very glad they stuck to the notion. I stick my neck out for nobody.
Especially the ones who heard and didn’t even get on the phone, or told the police they heard and saw nothing. They got to stay clear of the whole mess.
I doubt it will happen again a young man is killed by some citizen who believes he is the law.
And that didn’t happen here. Again, Zimmerman did not try and confront Martin, he didn’t chase him, he didn’t try and detain him.
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