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Originally Posted by Yanks_Todd
The neighborhood watch aspect is valid if the boy was doing something wrong. He wasn't. When he called the police he was told to stop following by the authorities.
The ONE guy walking out in the rain had that right. Does he not? Do you believe walking in peoples yards should be a crime punishable by death?
So you have a citizen following another citizen period. Zimmerman was not an official anything that matters legally. If you wanna debate whether or not Trayvon was acting in self-defense or not fine, howeever I can damn well tell you I probably would have swung first as well.
When Zimmerman started losing the fight, he killed him. Could he have ran at that point? No, Oh well, he bit off more then he could chew.
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Here's the thing: the "cops" never gave Zimmerman a direct order. A civilian police dispatcher told him "we don't need you to do that" when Zimmerman said he was going to follow him. Guess what? If Zimmerman said I see a house burning, there may be people inside, I'm going in to check, the dispatcher would say the same thing: "we don't need you to do that". And the reason is liability. If the dispatcher says, "yes, by all means, investigate" and something goes wrong, let the lawsuits begin.
Of course Martin had the right to walk in the rain. Nothing illegal about that. And Zimmerman had the right to question a person walking in the rain, who didn't live there. Nothing illegal about that, either. You can go up to anyone, anywhere and ask them a question. I get homeless people coming up to me asking for a handout. It's not illegal, though I'd rather it not happen. And sometimes they follow me down the block. My response, however, has never been to punch one in the face and break their nose. Because that would be illegal.