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Originally posted by ManjushriPrajna
I find it fascinating that black kids shoot black kids every day, but it isn't until a white kid is involved that anybody takes notice.
Originally posted by takaris7
Originally posted by openyourmind1262
reply to post by My.mind.is.mine
You don't get grass stains when your the one on top.. Do you?
I will give you the possibility that both people could have struggled...but what bothers me is...that Mr. Zimmerman first followed the young boy in his car, then got out and followed him down the street. According to witnesses they ended up in a yard away from Mr. Zimmermans truck. You have to remember that the boy was not in the process of committing a crime or just robbed the store...he was walking home.
Now if you were being followed by some weirdo in that manner and then stopped, possibly at gunpoint...what would you do? ... if I had you down on the ground after you pulled a gun out on me (and lets not forget Mr. Zimmerman is not a police officer) i would make sure you had more than just a few grass stains on your back. I would be fighting for my life.
Originally posted by Russh50
reply to post by Thunder heart woman
Only mouthy ones who call me a racist.
Originally posted by SaturnFX
I thought it was a hispanic man...
Who is the white kid your talking about?
Originally posted by VonDoomen
reply to post by ClintK
Its true he has no legal obligation to answer any questions. However answering a question like that is not a big deal and it would show his ability to work *with* people and good intentions. If he had just calmy and rationally answered the questions i believe the outcome would have been much different and he would be alive today. If treyvons father lived inthis gated community, zimmern may have known him. It is unlikely that some random person would know the name of a black family in this gated community. I agree with your assessment that he had no obligation to answer, but it would have been in his own best interest. Showing an unwillingness to cooperate with people will lead people to be suspicious and believe you are hiding something. Any self respecting community watch person would want to know what a teenager he did not recognize was doing intheir gated community at night. Dont forget, the most crime prone group of society is young adult males under the age of 25.
Also thank you for clarifying the use of images of minors in the media. Thought it extended to minors in alk circumstances??edit on 3/26/2012 by VonDoomen because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by USarmyFL
Originally posted by TinkerHaus
Still looks like a kid.
The military takes 17 year olds.. Why? Because they are in their prime physically... Obviously Mr. Z's nose and back of head show that.
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Originally posted by openyourmind1262
reply to post by My.mind.is.mine
Wheres the evidence to state he was being stalked? Where's the witness's that say it was all Zimmermans doing? Where's the evidence to fault what Zimmerman said happened? So I am to suppose to now believe the Sanford Florida police dept in covering up a killing?
Was'nt this a gated community? It was. Did Trayvon live there? NO. He was staying with father while he was Suspended from school. You don't get suspended for being " an innocent kid? DO YOU? Was;nt there a string of breakins there in the recent past? Yes there was.
I don't know what happened. YOU don't know what happened. Don't you just for a minute think that if the Sanford police had any inclanation that Zimmermans story did not fit the evidence at the scene that they would have arrested him? Come on folks, it;s not a damn conspiracy involving the entire Sanford Florida Police Dept.
In the second set of pics in the original op. Looks as if the innocence is gone. Replaced with bravado.edit on 26-3-2012 by openyourmind1262 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Russh50
reply to post by Thunder heart woman
Only mouthy ones who call me a racist.
Originally posted by popsmayhem
Treyvon did not even live there and had been suspended from school
if he had of never been suspended from school he would of never
of been in the position he was in and where he was at.
decisions people make a difference.
Originally posted by Russh50
What are the "facts" that we have been hearing:
1. Jumped the fence of a gated community. ( Criminal trespassing in Florida )
2. Just visiting his father because he was kicked out of school for 10 days in Miami. ( family lawyer sealed this incident )
3. Swung at his bus driver in school. ( ??? )
4 Selling drugs via Twitter.
5. Dressed as a thug.
6. Ran when confronted by the volunteer from the homeowners association.
7. Volunteer beaten up.
If it looks like a duck, sounds like a duck, then it's a duck people.
Originally posted by openyourmind1262
reply to post by My.mind.is.mine
Wheres the evidence to state he was being stalked? Where's the witness's that say it was all Zimmermans doing? Where's the evidence to fault what Zimmerman said happened? So I am to suppose to now believe the Sanford Florida police dept in covering up a killing?
Was'nt this a gated community? It was. Did Trayvon live there? NO. He was staying with father while he was Suspended from school. You don't get suspended for being " an innocent kid? DO YOU? Was;nt there a string of breakins there in the recent past? Yes there was.
I don't know what happened. YOU don't know what happened. Don't you just for a minute think that if the Sanford police had any inclanation that Zimmermans story did not fit the evidence at the scene that they would have arrested him? Come on folks, it;s not a damn conspiracy involving the entire Sanford Florida Police Dept.
In the second set of pics in the original op. Looks as if the innocence is gone. Replaced with bravado.edit on 26-3-2012 by openyourmind1262 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Ophiuchus 13
Originally posted by SaturnFX
I thought it was a hispanic man...
Who is the white kid your talking about?
Many miss this part of it 1 thinks SaturnFX
Originally posted by SaturnFX
Originally posted by ManjushriPrajna
I find it fascinating that black kids shoot black kids every day, but it isn't until a white kid is involved that anybody takes notice.
White kid?
I thought it was a hispanic man...
Who is the white kid your talking about?