Q Vee
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I imagine that if we saw the event on video, Zimmerman would have been arrested.
However, I'm just guessing ... I don't know.
It's possible that Zimmerman did have good cause to believe he had to defend himself. It may seem out of character for Trayon Martin to have turned aggressive, but we don't know what he did without testimony from witnesses or other proof.
Nor can we reach certainty about what happened from what we've learned about Zimmerman's previous behavior nor what he said to the operator on his 911 call.
If I were a police officer or a DA, I'm not sure I would have done differently than Florida authorities have done.
I don't mean to sound cold. But absence of proof is absence of proof.
Yes you do sound cold and naive or misinformed or at least biased.
SOME COLD HARD FACTS OF THE CASE:
If a police officer discharges his weapon it has become routine that they are suspended from street assignment and their weapon is surrendered and an investigation is begun, even under the most obvious of cases.
Zimmerman was released with his firearm to return home.
He was:
- not a registered Neighborhood Watch volunteer; (INTENT)
- Neighborhood Watch prohibits carrying firearms and approaching potential dangerous suspects and instructs deferring to Police assistance; (INTENT)
- the Police dispatch instructed him not to pursue; (INTENT)
- he left his vehicle to pursue and confront Trayvon (not Trayon); (OPPORTUNITY)
- Zimmerman's actions do not meet criteria for the Stand and Defend Law; (INTENT)
- he was known to the Police for:
- a) numerous 911 calls regarding suspicious black males; (MOTIVE) (HATE)
- b) at least one altercation with the law; (MOTIVE)
- Zimmerman is a 32 y.o 200lb grown man, who was carrying a 9mm gun and Trayvon was a 17y.o. 100 youth, carrying Skittles, a can of iced tea and a cell phone; (MEANS)
- Zimmerman shot and killed Trayvon Martin in some sort of scuffle; (INCIDENT)
- the Law is to be applied by the courts not the police, thus based on 1-8 they had more than enough to at the least detain and interrogate, if not charge and arrest.
To further add to the suspicious nature of the Sanford PD:
- They held Trayvon's body in their morgue for three days without notifying the family.
- They ignored the calls on his cell phone from his father who repeatedly called searching for his son (including area hospitals).
- They did not bother to call the last number called on his cell phone in an attempt to investigate his identity.
- They performed drug and alcohol tests on Trayvon's remains but not on Zimmerman.
- They appear to not have conducted a professional/proper crime scene investigation to collect valuable forensic evidence.
And worst of all, if you like, there are about 22 states with similar laws on their books. If I was cynical and/or jaded, I would say the next step would be to have outright hunting licenses to kill Black men. And I would not be surprised to know that there would be numerous folks (some on here no doubt) who would register.
The one fact that has yet to be brought out is a case(s) where a Black man has killed a white man in the South and been sent home with his gun the same day, and/or charged and found innocent.
And if someone does take on the challenge of this research project. Please include the statistics of White-on-Black to Black-on-White. And let's keep in mind, Blacks make up approximately 12% of the National population.
Finally, this happened February 26 and is only now becoming known. The second a pretty White American female goes missing its national news - even if they're in Aruba. A young black man is missing and the local PD can not even figure out they have his body in the morgue.
Despicable.
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