Frances Robles - A native New Yorker who graduated from NYU, she was a 2004-2005 John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University. She is a former board member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.
Posted on 05/23/2012 10:42:55 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A year before George Zimmerman killed a Miami Gardens teenager, he stood before a City Hall community forum with a grievance: Sanford cops are lazy, he told the then-mayor elect.
And he should know: Zimmerman, a community college criminal justice major, said he went on ride-alongs with the Sanford Police.
“And what I saw was disgusting,” Zimmerman said, according to a recording of the January 2011 meeting obtained by The Miami Herald. “The officer showed me his favorite hiding spots for taking naps, explained to me that he doesn’t carry a long gun in his vehicle because, in his words, ‘anything that requires a long gun requires a lot of paperwork, and you’re going to find me as far away from it.’
“He took two lunch breaks and attended a going-away party for one of his fellow officers.”
Zimmerman’s public lambasting of the police department and its outgoing chief is rich with irony: A year later, the new chief took a national beating over how the department handled Zimmerman’s shooting of high school junior Trayvon Martin. The recording raises new questions about whether the neighborhood watch volunteer might have received preferential treatment the night of the shooting because he was familiar to officers in the department — or if any of the officers who took him into custody were the among those he criticized.
The department was widely condemned for letting Zimmerman go home after being questioned. From the start, attorneys for Trayvon’s family said that Zimmerman was a wannabe cop, protected by the “blue wall.”(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
“Martin certainly seems full of himself. I’m not surprised that some folk find him abrasive.”
You have some information that the rest of us are missing?
All officers should have their GPS locations available to dispatch at ALL times.
Each should wear a recording device that keeps a video/audio record of each entire shift. The device should be encrypted and only the order of a judge could decrypt it. If any arrest is made where the camera is mysteriously non-functional then it should not a legitimate arrest. Such devices can be easily built. Fisheye lenses, front and back, for 360 degree records. Software can easily correct the fisheye effect for courtroom presentation.
“So? “
Exactly!
And this...
“if any of the officers who took him into custody were the among those he criticized”
That makes absolutely NO SENSE! He wouldn’t get preferential treatment from those that he criticized but making sense isn’t the MSM M.O. it’s to paint the picture they want painted and screw the FACTS!
Frances Robles - A native New Yorker who graduated from NYU, she was a 2004-2005 John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University. She is a former board member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.
Obamason - thanks, that’s a keeper
No, I read on-line just like you.
It’s pretty much true of every police department in America. You’ve got half of the departments doing their job, and the other half wasting their time.
They don't want to deal with the actual event, they want to dig around for some sinster motive to establish the basis for a 'hate crime'
[[A year before George Zimmerman killed a Miami Gardens teenager]]
Woopsie- here’ i’ll fix that for ya miami herald A year before George Zimmerman killed a Miami Gardens THUG IN SELF DEFENSE
[[“And what I saw was disgusting,” Zimmerman said, according to a recording of the January 2011 meeting obtained by The Miami Herald. “The officer showed me his favorite hiding spots for taking naps, explained to me that he doesn’t carry a long gun in his vehicle because, in his words, ‘anything that requires a long gun requires a lot of paperwork, and you’re going to find me as far away from it.’ ]]
Hmmmm- now one has to wonder IF the Sanford police are gettign revenge agaisnt george for sayign that about htem?
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