This is why we all cant have guns.

[Turchinator]

you're right- it's not.

it turns out the shooter, (28, not 26 as I mentioned) has a record of resisting arrest and battery on a police officer, charges also dropped.

the crazy biased media told me this, as confirmed by the Orange County Clerk of Courts.

the victim has no criminal record of sorts.

A person walking down the street is not suspicious. If the kid was going about his business he would have walked through the area and nothing would have happened. How was he in the same place long enough for someone to make a call to the police? How did this confrontation ever take place? Was the kid hanging about and looking into people's properties? He must have be doing something!

you don't know shit. why are you twisting this?

the police told the shooter not to pursue the guy. he was walking home.

[Turchinator]

vigilante justice- some angry white guy in a rich community isolated from reality sees a black kid, calls it suspicious, and calls it in...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1332756.html

In the "Committee News" section of last month's issue of the gated community's newsletter, "Retreat Reflections," the neighborhood watch committee asked for additional volunteers and warned: "Please keep your eyes open" and "If you see something suspicious or out of place, report it!"

For more information, it said, call George Zimmerman.

UPDATE:

Chief Bill Lee of the Sanford Police Department on Thursday evening said the account given by Martin’s family and attorney is correct, that Zimmerman saw the young man walking home from the store. He said that Zimmerman did indeed call 911 and report a suspicious person, and that he was told not to follow him.

“For some reason he felt that Trayvon, the way that he was walking or appeared seemed suspicious to him,” Lee said. “He called this in and at one part of this initial call [the dispatcher] recommends him not to follow Trayvon. A police officer is on the way at that point.”

Lee said that Zimmerman instead followed Martin.

“I believe that Mr. Zimmerman was trying to, by his account, find an address to give the officers and also trying to keep Trayvon in eyesight.”

Zimmerman told the police that Martin noticed that he was being followed and asked, “what’s your problem?”

That's when a physical confrontation ensued, Lee said. And moments later, Martin was shot.

Lee said that Zimmerman has a legal permit to carry the weapon used in the shooting, and that he told police that he shot Martin in self-defense.

“He felt the need to defend himself,” Lee said. “ I don’t think it was his intent to go and shoot somebody” that night.

The chief said the police have met with Zimmerman on two to three separate occasions, and that their investigation should be wrapped up this week. He said all of the evidence in the case will be delivered to the Seminole County State Attorney’s Office soon after.

“We’re going to present all the information and if they feel that based on all of the evidence that we’re able to produce that Mr. Zimmerman has satisfied the requirement that he shot in self defense, they may, but if not, he would be charged with some type of homicide or manslaughter,” Lee said.

“It is certainly and absolutely a tragedy, especially for the Martin Family,” Lee said. "No one expects their teenage son to go the store and never come back.”

[kaiser soze]

911 instructed him not to pursue the "suspicious" person

the asshole couldn't follow the rules of the organization he was head of - fuck him, he may survive a stiff criminal sentence but you bet your bottom dollar he won't be living in a gated community in a couple years cuz a civil suit will fuck him up

[likeman]

Originally Posted by kaiser soze

911 instructed him not to pursue the "suspicious" person

the asshole couldn't follow the rules of the organization he was head of - fuck him, he may survive a stiff criminal sentence but you bet your bottom dollar he won't be living in a gated community in a couple years cuz a civil suit will fuck him up

yes i agree with you,man!

[Helvete]

Originally Posted by Turchinator

you're right- it's not.

it turns out the shooter, (28, not 26 as I mentioned) has a record of resisting arrest and battery on a police officer, charges also dropped.

the crazy biased media told me this, as confirmed by the Orange County Clerk of Courts.

the victim has no criminal record of sorts.



you don't know shit. why are you twisting this?

the police told the shooter not to pursue the guy. he was walking home.

I was trying to get my head around a situation which I could not fathom how it happened. Now more details are coming out, the picture is becoming clearer. I like to hear all sides of the story and make my assessment based on that, rather than jumping the gun. Turns out your initial judgement seems like it was right, but it might not have been.

In my job, if I just took things at face value and from one source, I'd be really shitty at it!