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Originally Posted by mickey100
I see nothing wrong with a 17 year old kid going out at 7:30 at night to take a short walk to the store to buy skittles. I must be a horrible parent. Sue me. The fact is there is nothing illegal or criminal about what he was doing. It matters not who's apartment it was, who's wife or girlfriend it was. It matters not where he had A's in school had a run-in with the law a few months ago, or if he posted rapper type poses on his Facebook page, which by the way, is very common among young men today and doesn't mean they are criminals. The bottom line was - did he do something that particular night that a reasonable person in George Zimmerman’s situation would have suspected Trayvon intended to burglarize someone’s home or steal someone’s property. Walking through the neighborhood when it is raining and looking at houses does not suggest criminal activity. You can't just have a "hunch" that someone has criminal activity in mind, there has to be probable cause, which there wasn't in this case. If Zimm had been a police officer he would have stopped Martin, and identified himself as a police officer and asked him what he was doing in the neighborhood, or just asked if he needed assistance. Zimm did neither of those things. In fact Zimm acted as the aggressor when he followed Martin with a loaded weapon. Since Zimm was the aggressor, how about allowing Martin the right to Stand his Groundand defend himself against Zimm ?
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Good grief.
Leave race out of this. We have now police wannabe and a punky lookin' kid.
We have the situation where there had been robberies and break ins.
I would have gone home and called the police. He called the police and he was on some neighborhood watch thing if I remember correctly. I don't do guns but George ZimmERMAN had one and a permit. If me, an old lady had followed the kid and he banged my head into the pavement, I would have probably used the gun if I had one and shot him in his elbow because I don't think I would be able to shoot to kill anyone and would probably have missed or he would have shot at me.
I wish they had given each other a black eye. Then the parents of Mart could sue George ZimMERMAN.