Neighborhood watch captain shoots innocent black youth and doesn't even get arrested - Page 99

Bump · 03-08-2012, 11:50 AM

This is some ****ED UP SHIT, they aren't sure if the racist neighborhood watch idiot should be arrested? If anything, local gangs might take notice of this and start shooting up that neighborhood or just random white neighborhoods. I could never live in the south, it's ridiculous. The guy shoots an innocent teen walking to the store to buy skittles. Should be life in prison, that's cold blood man.

http://news.yahoo.com/family-florida...044537742.html

ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - The family of a 17-year-old African-American boy shot to death last month in his gated Florida community by a white Neighborhood Watch captain wants to see the captain arrested, the family's lawyer said on Wednesday.

Trayvon Martin was shot dead after he took a break from watching NBA All-Star game television coverage to walk 10 minutes to a convenience store to buy snacks including Skittles candy requested by his 13-year-old brother, Chad, the family's lawyer Ben Crump said.

"He was a good kid," Crump said in an interview, adding that the family would issue a call for the Watch captain's arrest at a news conference on Thursday. "On his way home, a Neighborhood Watch loose cannon shot and killed him."

[Related: Fla. teen avoids deportation]

Trayvon, who lived in Miami with his mother, had been visiting his father and stepmother in a gated townhome community called The Retreat at Twin Lakes in Sanford, 20 miles north of Orlando.

As Trayvon returned to the townhome, Sanford police received a 911 call reporting a suspicious person.

Although names are blacked out on the police report, Crump and media reports at the time of the shooting identified the caller as George Zimmerman who is listed in the community's newsletter as the Neighborhood Watch captain.

Without waiting for police to arrive, Crump said, Zimmerman confronted Trayvon, who was on the sidewalk near his home. By the time police got there, Trayvon was dead of a single gunshot to the chest.

"What do the police find in his pocket? Skittles," Crump said. "A can of Arizona ice tea in his jacket pocket and Skittles in his front pocket for his brother Chad."

Zimmerman could not be reached for comment on Wednesday evening at a phone number listed for him on the community's newsletter.

Crump said the family was concerned that police might decide to consider the shooting as self defense, and that police have ignored the family's request for a copy of the original 911 call, which they think will shed light on the incidents.

"If the 911 protocol across the country held to form here, they told him not to get involved. He disobeyed that order," said Ryan Julison, a spokesman for the family.

"He (Zimmerman) didn't have to get out of his car," said Crump, who has prepared a public records lawsuit to file on Thursday if the family doesn't get the 911 tape. "If he never gets out of his car, there is no reason for self-defense. Trayvon only has skittles. He has the gun."

Since Trayvon, a high school junior who wanted to be a pilot, was black and Zimmerman is white, Crump said race is "the 600 pound elephant in the room."

"Why is this kid suspicious in the first place? I think a stereotype must have been placed on the kid," Crump said.

(Editing By Cynthia Johnston and Peter Bohan)

R8ers · 03-25-2012, 12:35 PM

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Originally Posted by DaFace

OK, so we agree that fights happen frequently. Is your position that anyone who throws the first punch in a fight deserves to be killed? And if not (since I certainly hope that you'll agree that's absurd), what is the difference here?

No, but he was scared obviously.... Do I think he was premature in shooting him? Yep... in hindsight

But you are talking heat of the moment stuff.. Was this kid a gang banger? Does this kid have a knife? A gun? am I gonna die? Shit happens fast...

Impossible to know what he was feeling... I just wish he could have wounded and not killed him.

I am not defending Zimmerman, I am defending the law as it is written which I fully agree with.

Radar Chief · 03-25-2012, 12:42 PM

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Originally Posted by vailpass

Has the lynch mob succeeded in having this guy hauled in yet?

Not yet. They're still gathering up an angry crowd with pitchforks and torches.

WilliamInnerCircle · 03-25-2012, 12:45 PM

Go inside to Acey. He can handle Kidd..

And there it is..

WilliamInnerCircle · 03-25-2012, 12:45 PM

**** me... wrong thread.. oh well..

Zebedee DuBois · 03-25-2012, 01:00 PM

R8ers · 03-25-2012, 01:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Zebedee DuBois

Why is the shooter in this picture black and the dead man is white?

stonedstooge · 03-25-2012, 01:09 PM

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Originally Posted by R8ers

Why is the shooter in this picture black and the dead man is white?

Don't be a dummy. Everyone knows it was the white half of the dude that shot and killed the black guy

R8ers · 03-25-2012, 01:13 PM

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Originally Posted by stonedstooge

Don't be a dummy. Everyone knows it was the white half of the dude that shot and killed the black guy

My bad

go bowe · 03-25-2012, 01:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Zebedee DuBois

out-****ing-standing!!!

fear the fear!!!!11!

jspchief · 03-25-2012, 01:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by R8ers

But you are talking heat of the moment stuff.. Was this kid a gang banger? Does this kid have a knife? A gun? am I gonna die? Shit happens fast...

Sounds like a compelling argument for not chasing the guy down and confronting him.

Inserting yourself into a scary situation, then shooting your way out because you're scared doesn't sound like a reasonable case for self defense.

R8ers · 03-25-2012, 01:24 PM

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Originally Posted by jspchief

Sounds like a compelling argument for not chasing the guy down and confronting him.

Inserting yourself into a scary situation, then shooting your way out because you're scared doesn't sound like a reasonable case for self defense.

How do you know that happened? You have a link?

jspchief · 03-25-2012, 01:25 PM

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Originally Posted by R8ers

Why is the shooter in this picture black and the dead man is white?

Dead man is Mexican. He's wearing chinos, like all Mexicans. You can't tell, but the top of his shirt is buttoned and the bottom isn't.

Zebedee DuBois · 03-25-2012, 01:26 PM

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Originally Posted by R8ers

Why is the shooter in this picture black and the dead man is white?

Genetics, I suppose. In my opinion, race is a red herring for this situation.

go bowe · 03-25-2012, 01:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by R8ers

How do you know that happened? You have a link?

do you?

jspchief · 03-25-2012, 01:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by R8ers

How do you know that happened? You have a link?

What?!

You mean Martin dragged Zimmerman from his car, into a back yard before beginning the deadly nose bloodying? No wonder he was scared. Sounds like this Martin monster may have been hopped up on pcp.

03-08-2012, 11:50 AM
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