[sauropod]

Sorry, but I have to agree with Hattie here. The 911 call did appear to me to tell Zimmerman to cease and desist.

You are arguing over semantics.

[101stAirborneVet]

You guys are proposing, at least in part, criminal culpability on the part of Zimmerman for not heeding what you say are instructions to "cease and desist" "following the boy".

I am amazed that you then turn around and say the wording of those instructions don't matter, and are just semantics, whether it was "we don't need you to do that" and "CEASE AND DESIST FOLLOWING THE BOY".

As other posters have indicated, it wouldn't matter anyway because Zimmerman is not required to obey the commands of a police dispatcher even if they had instructed such a thing.

But to hang your hat on the supposed command uttered by the dispatcher, then when it's pointed out it's not a command at all, to brush it off as semantics... amazing.

[BilLies]

The tape says differently...the tape explicitly says “you do not have to do that”..and not to “cease and disist”..and more importantly we don’t know what happened after that.

these are not semantics but facts that are ignored in the effort to lynch Zimmerman symbolically and in fact.