How are the crime stats in the neighborhood since the night of the incident?
Nobody has seemed to question if in fact Trayvon had been burglarizing the neighborhood.
Ah, beat me to it, but you said it
much better.
I am very curious. This young upstanding lad had previously been found to be in possession of women’s jewelry, and a screwdriver.
And this community had 8 burgularies in the prior 14 months.
The McGruff in me would try to find that jewelry (presumably confiscated by his school), and tie it to any of the burgularies.
Not to speak ill of the dead, but the lad was on suspension for drug residue, and he had been suspended before for the jewelry theft. I can’t imagine why Zimmerman thought he looked suspicious! Must have been because he was black.
I think Trayvon had only been there a few days, and the burglaries had been over a longer period. He could be responsible in theory for some but not for all. Of course he may not have committed any of them (I don’t know the date of the last burglary)...but if Trayvon’s father finds some unexplained loot in his home that looks like it might have come from someone else’s home, don’t expect him to run to the police and say “this could be stolen property.”