This is just what GZ said. It does not mean he was telling the truth. We do not know what the truth really is. I have been profiled for wearing a hoodie at night at a walk track. And I was 50
Really and just what part of a lie detector test are you unfamiliar with???
He said it every time he was asked and twice during lie detector tests which he passed without deception.
And we know for a fact that Martin was a jewel thief as his school records indicate.
And when he was still missing the next morning his father called juvenile hall and then the adult detention facility before calling police missing persons.
Are those the phone calls of a father who believes that he has raised an innocent little Skittles child or a father who knew that his son was into some bad thing.
We do not know what the truth really is.
Sure you do -- you and the Martins and their halfwitted followers are just living in denial of it.
And was your response to that assaulting the person who was suspicious of you?
The “profiling” that Obama is trying to imply is based on race, not an article of clothing. An article of clothing is a voluntary decision that usually expresses something about you and which you have chosen to wear to make that statement, show your membership in some group, etc.
My son - who is 100% white - never had any problems with the police as a teenager in a small CA city - until he started wearing a type of leather jacket that was very popular with thuggish white kids at the time. It was also popular with heavy metal singers, and he was wearing it because he was going through teenage music-that-drives-your-parents-mad stage. He was not a criminal or associated with any gang.
However, one evening he ended up being forced to lie spread eagled on the ground by a highway while the highway patrol pointed a gun at his head - because they had been on the lookout for someone wearing that type of jacket who had robbed a convenience store. Fortunately, they found that the city police has already caught the other guy, so they dusted him off and let him go. He dropped the jacket from his outfit soon afterwards...
The “hoodie” is associated with a certain type of behavior, and whether or not you actually engage in such behavior, people will be a little worried about you until you prove by your actions that you are simply wearing it to keep warm or for whatever non-crime related reason.
This is a normal human reaction and has has nothing to do with race. Visual signs are what allows any animal to detect danger, and the hooded sweatshirt has become one of those signs.
Incidentally, our white thugs here in Florida often wear them, probably because it makes it easier for the to hide their faces while they are committing a crime.