The fact that he said" i am tired of these a holes getting away with everything" makes it racist.
Really?
How does it make it racist?
And under no circumstances does it gives anyone the right to take the law in their own hand.
There is nothing wrong with confronting someone who is in your community. It is a lack of intervention that has allowed our society to decay. Who cares if someone is getting beat up in the street - that's for the police to handle, not you.
When seconds count - the police are just minutes away.
That is why predators win in our society. They've preyed and gone, and the police just fill out paperwork to go to a group of over-worked investigators who are working three different incidents performed by this same individual.
Who ever you are, you say the killing was justified right? Tell me something, You're walking home and you notice your being followed. so you run and the person follows you. You cannot sit by your computer and tell me you would not react in how the kid did, or try to defend yourself. Logically you would think that the person who is following you is either 1, want to rob,kill,or assault you.
Get your facts straight.
Martin did not run. Martin rounded the block and Zimmerman lost him. Zimmerman was returning to his car when Martin came out of concealment and confronted Zimmerman.
If this were me in the picture - I would have either turned around and asked the man if I could be of some service. I don't care if he plans to rob me or not. In a quick size-up, I know if my options are best to flee or just knock the hell out of him if he tries anything.
Failing that, if I just decided to evade - then I would not have re-initiated contact. I would have remained in concealment and done counter-surveillance.
It's no different than when I think someone is following me while driving. I'll take a long country road, round a block or two, just to make sure they are following me (no one has been - just drunks that like to crawl inside of my trunk).
Not sure if that's you in the picture but just in case it is, I am sure in the army, if this kind of thing happen in the field where you were being follow you would act if not like the kid but similarly.
No, I wouldn't.
I'm Navy. Trained in security operations. Zimmerman made a valid choice to follow the kid. He saw suspicious behavior and took action to make sure that he had a visual so that he could make sure the region he was responsible for remained secure.
In security, we have what is known as a "Quick Reaction Force." I'm sure you've heard about it in the computerized training you have to do between stocking shelves. We also have designated roving watches. When a sentry spots suspicious behavior he/she directs either (or, depending upon the situation, both) to interdict. If it's a TCN on the base behaving awkwardly, a direct confrontation is had. If it's something going on outside of the base, a portion of the QRF becomes a temporary supplemental sentry or rover to make sure the compound stays secure while we direct Host Nation police/security to deal with what is going on.
What you're saying about dressing is completely retarded even though that's what people in today society portray.
If i wear a hoody that makes me a gang banger? wtf? if that's the case why is it even sold in store???
It's not just a hoodie. But it does contribute to the image. Hoodies are preferred because it helps to conceal the identity of the individual.
Wearing a hoodie doesn't make you a gang banger. It increases your visual similarity to one. How many times have you heard this in your career, kid: "Perception is reality?"
If your Captain or Sergeant walks by and perceives you as sitting around and doing nothing - what happens? You get treated as if you're doing nothing, most often. What happens if you're just wandering around in a stack of paper in your hands? No one questions you. You look busy, and therefor are. Even if you have a lost expression on your face - people will ask who you are looking for or what department you're trying to find.
Grab a pizza box and you instantly have TS:SCI clearance.
The fact of the matter is, he saw this kid, "looking" not doing any crime, but Looking and walking home, and from his deduction from the boy, He looks like he does drugs or something? how the **** a person going to say because a boy has a hoody on he does drugs?
And Zimmerman was simply looking. He wasn't doing any crime.
He should have gotten hard time for what he did, I refuse to believe someone who study Criminal justice and train in the art of fighting, gets beat up by a 17 year old kid half his body weight.
Be honest with me. You haven't been through hand-to-hand training, yet, have you?
Probably not even in a combat role.
The fact of the matter is, he pursue the kid with a weapon after the cops told him not to, let them do their job....he took the law in his own hands which no one should have a right to under no circumstances.
The law can't dictate where George Zimmerman is allowed to go on public streets. The cops did not tell him not to pursue. The person on the other end wasn't even a 911 dispatch authority - it was a non-emergency line.
Your line of logic is fundamentally flawed. I -can- intervene in a crime in progress. That's not "the law" that must solely respond to that. If not - I would be guilty of some crime for yanking someone off of your daughter while he was in the middle of raping her.
And if I can do that, why can I not follow someone if I feel a crime by that person is imminent?
What America just stated is, it's okay for someone to kill someone and get off, but it's not okay for a boy to play league of legends on the internet and made a sarcasm threat only to get 10 years behind bars.
No. That is not what America just stated.
That is what the State of Florida and the State of Ohio said in two separate incidents in two separate states.
We have a legal system in place to evaluate each incident of a crime. While legal precedents are set from time to time and do influence other cases - neither of these cases are setting a real precedent.
You need to learn that this is a united country, not "One" country.
The reason we're about to destroy ourselves is because too many people think of this as 'one country.' Which it is not. It is a unification of nation-states that have the authority to make laws and render legal decisions independently of each other.