I agree that we do not have all the facts and I do not think that he should have been charges....but we do know that this would not have happened at all if he had not gottenbin over his head. An untrained dope with a gun who follows a “suspiscous” person is just asking for trouble...and regardless of how it started zimmerman found it.
I'm willing to bet both Zimmerman and I have more firearms and deadly-force defense training than you.
It's suspicious to be a black youth wandering around in the rain. There, I said it. Black youths KILL. It's a fact. Zimmerman was right to call it in.
Could have fooled me. Seems like you've been yelling for his scalp since day 1.
I'm not saying that Zimmerman didn't get well in over his head. But I'm also not saying he did. You bring up an interesting question(s): how well trained are the NWVs, what are their rights and obligations regarding their jobs? If you agree that NWVs should be allowed to carry firearms to protect themselves, then you can't say anything yet about whether Zimmerman outstepped his duties or he was merely doing his job and almost became a victim. Do NWVs have the right to question strange people walking through their (the NWVs) neighborhoods? I'm not a lawyer, but I would think not. If Zimmerman did that, he is at least party culpable for the situation he found himself in.
But did he say anything to Martin? We still don't know that. If he's a NWV, Zimmerman would have been negligent in his duties if he didn't try to see what a stranger like Martin was doing in his neighborhood...which had a series a recent burglaries. But that't the problem...we still don't have all the facts. Let's not call Zimmerman a dope who got in over his head until we know more.