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Why Did Zimmerman get out of the Car? (Vanity)
July 14, 2013 | Self (Vanity)

Posted on 07/14/2013 2:13:05 PM PDT by katieanna

Excuse the vanity, but the matter of Zimmerman getting out of his vehicle has not been understood by me. Why did that occur? I have not followed the trial as closely as many have and I've never quite gotten that. Thanks in advance. Kate


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To: katieanna
So you believe that Zimmerman should have remained in his truck when he saw a shadowy figure peering into patio doors and called the CIVILIAN non-emergency dispatcher?

He was not speaking with a police officer. Are you aware of that?

61 posted on 07/14/2013 2:36:14 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
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To: katieanna

If Trayvon Martin was so concerned for his own safety why didn’t he just go into his dwelling OR call 911 and report that a creepy ass cracka was following him?


62 posted on 07/14/2013 2:37:09 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: katieanna
It doesn't matter.Saint Trayvon clearly won every round of that fight...including all but the last three seconds of the final one.
63 posted on 07/14/2013 2:37:20 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Civil Servants Are No Longer Servants...Or Civil.)
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To: katieanna

“What difference, at this point, does it make?” HRC


64 posted on 07/14/2013 2:37:32 PM PDT by Repulican Donkey
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To: TigersEye

You ever figure out about Zimmerman or Skittles family getting that $1Million. Remember the Hit and Run you did earlier?


65 posted on 07/14/2013 2:37:58 PM PDT by X-spurt (I'm copywriting creepy ass cracker, send royalties to BR549)
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To: katieanna

My guess: He had called the police about a suspicious character. The police were on their way. He wanted to see if he could tell where the suspicious character went, so he tell the police where the guy was.

There had been a series of incidents in the community. This guy had been standing there in the rain just staring at Zimmerman, instead of walking on home. That would certainly be a signal to me that the guy was up to no good.

So he wanted to see where the guy went, so he could tell the police.

About that point, he lost sight of Trayvon Martin. That was not a good situation.

I don’t think he expected the guy to appear and attack him. The guy was disappeared, and I think he expected him to stay disappeared.

Tactical error on Zimmerman’s part.


66 posted on 07/14/2013 2:38:02 PM PDT by Jeff Winston
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To: katieanna

Zimmerman was armed security for a gated community. It was his job to find out what strangers there were doing. If some news stories were accurate enough, the community was also gated. I don’t know as to whether the streets there were private. Consequences can be serious for trespassers on private roads.


67 posted on 07/14/2013 2:39:32 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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To: katieanna
I have not followed the trial as closely as many have and I've never quite gotten that.

So you posted this vanity. Sigh, try to keep up by reading the ongoing threads.

68 posted on 07/14/2013 2:40:02 PM PDT by Jean S
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To: katieanna
My understanding is that Zimmerman phoned 911 from inside his car and was told to stay put and not to pursue TM.

Your understanding is incorrect on several points:

1) George did not call 911, he called the non-emergency number set up for neighborhood watch calls.

2) The dispatcher never told George to stay in his car, not did he tell him not to pursue Martin - he did not have the legal authority to do so, even if he had been so inclined.

3) After George was out of his car, the dispatcher asked George if he was following Martin. George said yes, and the dispatcher said, "we don't need you to do that." George said okay, and there is no evidence that he continued to follow Martin after that point.

Now that you have the facts, as presented in evidence and testimony to the court, I hope your question is answered.

69 posted on 07/14/2013 2:41:09 PM PDT by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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To: Bob

See my post #56. And, no sir, I do not subject my ears to msnbc.


70 posted on 07/14/2013 2:41:10 PM PDT by katieanna
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To: katieanna

I’m 80 years old and know that a 15 minute or less Google search would have answered that question for you,thus avoiding a lot of the snarky answers that are being posted.

.


71 posted on 07/14/2013 2:41:58 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Mamzelle
Ok. How far from the car did the shooting take place?

About 100-150 feet.

72 posted on 07/14/2013 2:42:26 PM PDT by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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To: katieanna

Why didn’t Trayvon just move along?


73 posted on 07/14/2013 2:42:29 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: freedomrings69

He was never “told”, “instructed”, “directed”, “advised”, etc.

The dispatcher said, “We do not need you to do that.”

If a sign in a restaurant says, “Customers do not need to tip their wait staff.” The sign is not telling/instructing/directing/advising etc. to tip or not to tip. It is up to the customer.

It is clear, except to the most obtuse.


74 posted on 07/14/2013 2:42:37 PM PDT by Darteaus94025
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To: katieanna

Read Ann Coulter’ latest column where she decribes that amount of crime that happened in this neighborhood over the last couple of years.
http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2013-07-10.html#read_more


75 posted on 07/14/2013 2:42:44 PM PDT by Wooly
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To: katieanna

because he had to pee

see anyone can be a reporter you just have to make stuff up....


76 posted on 07/14/2013 2:42:46 PM PDT by Breto (Stranger in a strange land... where did America go?)
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To: katieanna

some people are just a little jumpy in the aftermath. not everyone realizes that not all fr folks weren’t glued to the set or internet for the whole thing. you dont’ get nearly anything substantial off regular news or even cable MSM coverage.


77 posted on 07/14/2013 2:43:00 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man
IF Trayvon had a right to be in the complex, so did George. If Trayvon had a right to be walking on the sidewalk, so did George.

I would quibble a little bit with this. I think that there is a hierarchy of "rights" here, if not in law then in social protocols.

This was a condominium community. The "rights" should descend as follows:

1. Owners first.

2. Renters second.

3. Temporary guests third. I won't distinguish between guests of owners vs. guests of renters.

The bottom line is that Trayvon Martin, as a guest of his step-mother (I think she was the owner/renter? of the condo unit), should have been more deferential to the residents who own the units. Instead, Martin was acting like everyone owed him something, and he was disrepectful to the people he encountered in the neighborhood into which he was invited as a guest.

-PJ

78 posted on 07/14/2013 2:43:24 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: katieanna

That’s what the media wants you to believe.

The dispatcher asked Zimmerman several times what Martin was doing.

When the dispatcher said “we don’t need you to do that”, Zimmerman said “OK” and started back to his truck.

A key thing: the dispatcher has no authority to tell you to do anything. The dispatcher testified exactly that furring the trial.

If you choose to have an opinion about this case, first you must educate yourself. Listen to or watch the evidence presented at the trial. Don’t decide anything the state-run media tells you, because they have been lyng, either outright or by omission.


79 posted on 07/14/2013 2:46:27 PM PDT by justlurking (tagline removed, as demanded by Admin Moderator)
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To: Mears

You are right my friend. This morning, I did a bing search (not google) and didn’t found question and answer forums but not a learned answer that I knew I could find here. Anyway..... you all have a blessed day.


80 posted on 07/14/2013 2:46:31 PM PDT by katieanna
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