Compared to NBCs Today show editing the 911 call to make it appear that Zimmerman is a racist and ABC editing video removing a police officer looking closely at the back of Zimmermans head while their commentator claims that the video shows no evidence of Zimmerman having a head injury. Both media outlets have since apologized for their actions.
We don’t know what TM’s actions were. So to say they didn’t get him killed, is just as much of a leap of faith.
He doesn’t have to be lying to have held an unreasonable belief.
I haven’t passed sentence. I do not feel the initial investigation was handled properly, and I think a trial is needed. That’s what would satisfy my own thoughts.
If I were Zimmerman, I wouldn’t have followed Martin to begin with, and nobody would be dead.
There’s your problem, in a nutshell.
Unless he admits to it, you have no proof of an unreasonable belief.
I think he needs this Grand Jury and possibly a trial for his own benefit.
From what I gather, Zimmerman didn’t follow him until Martin started walking toward him then turn and ran…I’m going off the top of my head and the 911 call, but it’s been a day or so since I read the transcript. At that point, I think anyone would have been wondering what the heck he was doing and my guess is that Zimmerman wasn’t following him so much as just trying to find out which way he was headed so he could inform the police when they arrived.
That’s about like saying when you see an overweight person you automatically assume they eat too many hamburgers.
There are now more than 3000 posts in the three Trayvon threads.
To be prepared to tell the police which direction he went.
Sounds like it, but until the audio is analyzed and questions are asked, don’t really know for sure.
Observing someone is hard to do if they run.
Yet the Neighborhood Watch code is
I didn’t realize there was a code, but it doesn’t really matter…personally, I see nothing wrong with following as long as you keep a safe distance. Martin became aware of Z’s presence and start toward him before he took off running.
Yet the actual code and 911’s instruction and the attitude upheld by all police and law
I do not have enough details to reach that conclusion, I’m glad you do though.
It wasn’t the instructions of the 911 operator nor is it the policy of their neighborhood watch.
Come on, everyone knows Dick Chaney’s heart is just fine, all those “operations” are just cover to explain his disappearances when he goes to get new instructions at Big Oil’s secret corporate headquarters on an island off the coast of Atlantis.IMHO… this discussion, like most of commentary in America, is misdirected. Since nobody on this forum was a witness my interpretations of the night’s events are just as valid as anyone else. So, consider this:
Dick Chaney’s new heart has a secret transmitter and encoding device linked to the Halliburton servers. It directed the Neighborhood Watch, who are really CIA operatives in Florida preparing a new Bay of Pigs to take over Cuba, to eliminate Martin. The kid stumbled on the CIA secret headquarters established during the Bush administration. It has taken 3000 hits but finally someone has to say it. It is all Bush’s fault.
A lot of people are taking this way too seriously. I do have sympathy for both sides but I wasn’t there so I don’t know what happened. Nor do I expect any form of justice to come out of this mess. Once the Feds. put you on their radar screen they will hound forever and eventually over charge to get a plea bargain. They have political patrons to make look good. If you don’t play ball with the federal prosecutors you can end up spending thousands to defend yourself and even if you win don’t expect them to say they’re sorry. Or recover your loses. The prosecutors being the guberment they never have to say they’re sorry.
It doesn’t matter one way or the other Zimmerman is probably toast
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