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Originally Posted by buggyone
The N.J. police decided to arrest the boy in the article promptly. The Sanford police did not arrest Zimmy until protests broke out about why a white man had not been arrested for killing a black youth. Big difference.
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I agree they are not the same kind of case.
HOWEVER, the difference is...and it is large....Zimmerman claimed self defense, and the police has no evidence...NONE... to invalidate his claim. They had no case and we saw at trial what happens when you arrest with no evidence.
Please read what the POLICE had to say about all of this. There was no evidence to arrest Zimmerman and they followed the LAW....THE LAW.
Folks just do not talk about what the police say in this case....it is just ignored....
""Why didn't you arrest him?" Local 6 investigative reporter Tony Pipitone asked.
"Because I took an oath. The laws of the Constitution and the state of Florida say if you don't have probable cause to arrest someone you can't arrest them," Lee replied."
"He revealed for the first time some of the internal deliberations and pressures with the police department and City Hall, including what became regular requests that he charge Zimmerman.
Those pressures, he said, contributed to the decision to hurriedly send the case to the state attorney before the police received cellphone records that would have led them to Rachel Jeantel, the young woman Trayvon Martin was speaking to just before he was shot.
Armed with Jeantel's statement, special prosecutor Angela Corey found enough probable cause to charge Zimmerman with second-degree murder, a decision effectively upheld last week when Judge Debra Nelson rejected the defense motion for judgment of acquittal.
Lee complains that the involvement of civil rights lawyers and activists complicated his investigation, leading to a lack of full cooperation from Martin's family.
He also said he is absolutely certain Tracy Martin told his detective the screams on a 911 call that captured the shooting were not from his son, Trayvon. Tracy Martin testified in court earlier this week that he was misunderstood by authorities and distraught from hearing his son on the call.
Additionally, Lee criticized the special prosecutor's office for interviewing Jeantel in the presence of Martin's weeping mother, Sybrina Fulton."
Ex-Sanford police chief tells Local 6 why he didn't arrest George Zimmerman | News - Home
I have never ever personally defended Zimmerman...I have never ever chastised either of the principles.
My objection and probem is with the political interference that has been involved in this case from the beginning and has muddied it totally. Let the police do their job.