There’s so much to sort out in this case and it’s really hard to know who was in the right at this point. Two things:
1. Obama had no business weighing in on this with his ridiculous and racially inferred comments.
2. Why exactly did Zimmerman continue to follow this guy after reporting him to 911 and they had dispatched police to the area? Also, the 911 operator wisely told him not to follow the guy. I don’t know if he’s guilty or not. But I do know that if he had wisely heeded that advice and not followed Martin, none of this would have happened. You don’t go looking for trouble.
Both of those items are my questions too.
The issue I have is with the politicals ‘getting involved.’ They have no say in this matter, it needs to be handled locally as a matter of legel investigation, prosecution if substantiated etc. The only thing politicals should be saying about the case is the justice system must prevail.
As far as Zimmerman not following the dispatchers advice/instructions, only Zimmerman can answer for that. Ufortunately there are no witnesses to what took place between Zimmerman deciding not to heed those instructions knowing police had been dispatched and how he ended up on the ground yelling for help.
Two things could have happened in my thinking:
Martin circled back and jumped Zimmerman
or
Zimmerman attempted an apprehension/detainment that went bad after locating Martin
And why were these two out at 3am in the morning?
I keep hearing this but how do we know that Zimmerman was not headed back toward his (car?) and was jumped by Martin? I think that if the police believed Zimmerman drew down on Martin Zimmerman would be in jail right now.