I read in earlier reports that the guy was a security person who worked for the gated community. Now they write it up as a “neighborhood watch volunteer” so I don’t know if he had a uniform or not. Neither do you unless you were there. Were you?
I read a lot of people on here who have become judge, jury and hangman for this Zimmerman guy. So many FReepers appear to be closet liberals willing to hang someone because the victim was black. Playing in with the race card players who are stirring up other blacks and building up a lynch mob.
I admitted I didn’t know much about the case other than what I read in the various news reports and we all know which side of the race card the media likes to side with.
I find it interesting that so many on FR are willing to believe everything the media is saying about this case. I know that kid was on the phone to his girlfriend, but if I were in his shoes I would be calling the cops or my dad who was just a few houses away and not calling my girlfriend and looking for her advise on what I should be doing.
It does sound like Zimmerman was playing Rambo, but until all the facts come out in the investigation I will side with the non lynch mob group and say innocent until PROVEN guilty.
I am more than happy to allow the guy a trial.
But my personal statements have been based on the known, and agreed upon, facts that have come out. There haven’t been any stories that Zimmerman was uniformed and, even if he was, Martin was under no obligation to submit to questioning to this man, who wasn’t a cop.
Even if Zimmerman was a cop, Martin still wouldn’t have been obligated to submit to anything unless he was under suspicion by a uniformed police man.
The victim’s race is not the reason people here are asking questions and/or siding with the victim’s family. Race isn’t even the point here. The real point is: The story just doesn’t add up: (1) the teen was running from the man; (2) the man was pursuing him; (3) the teen was unarmed; (4) the teen is now dead after the man shot him.
No one knows exactly what happened, yet, but no one here is calling for a lynch mob, either. A more in-depth investigation, charges, a trial - those are not the makings of a lynching; that’s how our judicial system is supposed to work.