Kate...I do appreciate your curiosity and believe it to be sincere. What concerns me greatly, in general, is that the majority of Americans were INCURIOUS to the truth. Why didn’t you, or many others, listen to the tapes, watch the reenactment, read the statements from witnesses? It would have been quite clear what happened.
For the record, George called the non emergency # when he saw a hooded black teen in the neighborhood, where they have been robbed mercilessly by same. He was on the phone in the car for quite a while. He tells the dispatcher ‘he ran’ and the dispatcher asks, which way did he go, where are you at, what’s he wearing...? All questions that would cause a good citizen to want to retrieve the answers. You then hear the car door open (ding ding ding) and GZ is walking, looking for addresses. You can hear wind in the phone, some wrongly say he was running, and the dispatcher asks ‘are you following him’ and GZ says yes. The dispatcher says ‘we don’t need you to do that’, more than likely implying they don’t need GZ to inconvenience himself in the rain; the police will find him. GZ says OKAY and starts to walk back to his car where he is surprised by TM and then promptly sucker punched in the face. By the way Kate, this is now a very common place occurrence in the young black community; it’s called ‘knock out king’.
This is the story...I wish many were interested in the facts BEFORE George’s life was ruined.
I appreciate you and your response. I’ve never heard that term knock out king before. The state of black youth and communities is such a terrible shame. Regards.