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"My objection to what you said is that the portrayal of George as some kind of super cop with all his ducks in a row..."

Yes, your objection is from your interpretation, not from my rather simple, and obvious, point.

"....with regard to the minimal training he got...."

"Minimal"? Really?

"Zimmerman became interested in becoming a police officer. In 2008, he attended a four-month course at the local sheriff's department. In his application for the course, Zimmerman wrote: "I hold law enforcement officers in the highest regard and I hope to one day become one." More recently, he was taking law enforcement courses at Seminole State College...."

Of course this is all IN ADDITION to getting his CCP and working with local Sanford PD in his Neighborhood Watchman capacity. If this qualifies as "minimal training" to you......

"Do I think he gave his family a lot of the story? Of course, but do I think they got all the details right? Not likely. "

You're probably right. With George's "minimal training" and his fathers scant experience in legal matters as a Supreme Court Magistrate, the details were completely disregarded...../s

Moe, can we at least agree that George didn't learn much if he can't even direct the cops how to find him in his small community after being a neighborhood watch person for several years and presumably having directed cops there a number of times before?

If he had spent a lot of time and effort making sure his family knew all the facts, why was his dad so vague about the details of how George and Trayvon came to be together? That's critical to this case.

By the way, your use of “Supreme Court magistrate” to describe his father may accurately describe his former title, but he was just a low-level judicial officer who didn't even work in a courtroom, but did routine matters for the judges.

No matter what we all think might have happened, eventually a lot more facts should come out, but I doubt we will ever know beyond a reasonable doubt what happened that tragic night.