When "Neighborhood Watch" Gets Out of Hand

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by jms62

Dispatcher told him specifically NOT TO FOLLOW. Anything that happend after that conversation would make him the agressor if I were on the jury.

that's right. but then rupert keeps talking about neighborhood watch-the guy wasn't a member of nw.
i think all of us can imagine being in trayvons shoes. zimmerman had no business approaching him or questioning him. it wasn't his place, and the kid was doing nothing wrong. since when is walking down the street a sign of wrongdoing?? and you better believe if i thought some nut was following me i'd try to lose him too. poor trayvon, behaving normally gets him killed because some guy doesn't behave normally.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Danzig

that's right. but then rupert keeps talking about neighborhood watch-the guy wasn't a member of nw.
i think all of us can imagine being in trayvons shoes. zimmerman had no business approaching him or questioning him. it wasn't his place, and the kid was doing nothing wrong. since when is walking down the street a sign of wrongdoing??

It doesn't matter if this Zimmerman was an "official" member of a neighborhood watch or not. You don't gain any special dispensations whatsoever by being a member of a neighborhood watch.

If Zimmerman was indeed an "official" member of a neighborhood watch, and thus "trained" in NW, that makes it far worse: he's carrying a gun and pursuing innocent citizens with deadly force.

And again: watching the videotape, as Zimmerman walks around the garage and into booking (another room with good light), there are multiple views, and there is no head wound or facial wounds on Zimmerman, and zero blood, grass, dirt, dampness either the front or back or sides of his coat and tee shirt he was wearing at the time.