When "Neighborhood Watch" Gets Out of Hand

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by Riot

What the hell? This American citizen wasn't doing anything illegal. Are we no longer allowed to walk in our neighborhoods without Zimmermans' permission? He was walking while black. Period.

I don't give a damn what happened or what was said when Zimmerman decided to intrude upon this boy, or what happened when Trayvon defended himself from an attack by a stranger: Zimmerman killed this boy with deadly force for no reason. "Fear of his life" - in a fist fight? With a one-hundred pound weight advantage?

The police are supposed to protect us from being randomly killed by fellow crazy citizens.

Their investigation stunk. Now others have taken that over. Thank god.

Are you sure Zimmerman didn't have a 200 pound weight advantage? Do you believe everything you read? There is no way in hell that Zimmerman had anything close to a 100 pound weight advantage. I know some media outlets reported that. That is absurd. He's lucky if he weighed 30 pounds more.

It's irrelevant what Zimmerman weighed in his mug shot from 2005. He was much heavier in that picture. He may have weighed well over 200 pounds in that picture but not any more. He is 5"9 inches. You saw him on the video. He is 5"9. How much do you think he weighs? He couldn't weigh more than 180 pounds. The reports on Trayvon are that he was anywhere between 6"0 and 6"3 and anywhere between 140 pounds and 175 pounds. Let's compromise and say he weighed 155 pounds. Does Zimmerman who is 5"9 look like he weighs 255 pounds to you in the video?

With regard to fear for your life or fear of great bodily harm from a fist fight, people get killed or seriously injured in fist fights all the time. Just off the top of my head, I could give you several stories from just the past year:

http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-500164_162-20077324.html

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lano...ther-girl.html

What about the guy at the Dodger game that ended up in a coma from being beaten up? Thousands of people have been killed or gravely injured in fist fights.