Spin. That's what all the "news" outlets do, simply to boost ratings and thus turn a larger profit. It's the American way....
I don't think this is a racial issue, I think Zimmerman is a trigger-happy cop wannabe that oversteps the boundaries of his position as neighborhood watch captain. It's called neighborhood WATCH not neighborhood confront. He made a judgement call and killed an unarmed man. Even with the training they receive (which Zimmerman didn't have) cops occasionally get this same call wrong also, and it's a tragedy when that happens. Those of you who think Zimmerman made the right call have your reasons for thinking that, I think he was dead wrong. We will see what the court system thinks in due time. All the fuss over his recent arrest is ridiculous, he should have been arrested on the spot. He chased, confronted and eventually killed an unarmed man. That is not "standing your ground" as I understand it. That Zimmerman felt threatened or wondered why this man was in the neighborhood is completely irrelevant, the man had every right to go where he wanted, it's a free country even for hoodie-wearing suspicious-looking individuals. All Zimmerman had to do was keep watching and stay on the phone with the police, who have training in how to handle such situations.
NBC and all the other "news" outlets have only the chasing of profit in mind. They can and will do anything to twist, misuse, imply, and take out of context they find useful. Sad, but sadder still that people believe it to be the truth.....
well I think ur making quite a few assumption here based on opinion vs. fact. facts that really none of us know at this point.
neighborhood watch people confront suspicious people all the time. happens every day. in fact neighborhood watch people exit their vehicles all the time to continue to follow suspicious people to see where they are running to so they can give the police a better location as to where the suspicious person is hiding or running to. nothing unusual about that at all and the police are usally grateful that a citizen helps them keep an eye on a suspect. Dispatchers always tell citizens not to get involved. standard protocal but I can assure you the police welcome citizens help in keeping an eye on suspects all the time.
by the time the police arrive on scene it could 5-10 minutes later depending on where the police are coming from and the suspect is usually long gone by that time which is why neighborhood watch people like to keep and eye people they consider suspicious so they can update the police.
if this kid was breaking into cars or houses and zimmerman exited his vehicle and there was no confrontation and the police arrived on scene with zimmerman able to give the police the last location that he observed him running to and he was caught the police would be thanking zimmerman for keeping an eye on him and helping them apprehend him. that is fact. they would not be chastising him for exiting his vehicle to keep an eye on a suspicious person who turned out to be a criminal.
it does not appear that the kid was doing anything wrong but no one knows what he was up to. not you, zimmerman or the police. maybe he was just going to the store? or maybe he saw a garage door open and wanted to take a closer look to see what he could steal. its all speculation but to say that zimmerman simply chased and killed an unarmed man is twisting facts like the media to make it appear as tho there was nothing suspicious going on here and that zimmerman should have never exited his vehicle. hindsight is always 20-20.
to say that he simply killed an unarmed man is a stretch. the fact is a lot of people who are armed are actually killed with their own weapon so at this point we have no credible information one way or the other that this kid did not in fact reach for zimmermans gun when the struggle occurred and therefore now he is armed. a struggle that this kid could have completely avoided if he chose to.
do you really think this kid could have not out run zimmerman if he chose to? cmon....???
maybe the gun fell out during the struggle and the kid grabbed for it? or maybe zimmerman pulled his gun after getting the chit beat of him by this kid and then the kid reached for the gun. no one knows so to say that he chased and confronted and unarmed man and killed him is no better then the media twisting the facts to make it appear as tho this guy just chased this kid, got out of his vehicle and walked up to him and killed him. thats obviously not what happened here because we know the kid could have out run zimmerman easily.
im not saying he should have to run from this guy but we really dont know who became the aggressor when zimmerman exited his vehicle. did zimmerman exit his vehicle and then the kid charged him? or did zimmerman run after this kid and the kid now felt threatened and now started fighting with zimmerman. no one knows at this point.
yea its free country and zimmerman is free to follow anyone he wants in his nieghborhood that he feels is suspicious. and he can also exit his vehicle to keep a better eye on him so he can advise the police where he last saw him running. I hardly think zimmerman thought this kid was going to confront him when he exited his vehicle. zimmerman likely thought the kid was gonna keep running and zimmerman knew he could not keep an eye on him from his vehicle alone and thought he would lose sight of him if he didnt exit his vehicle.
the way you make it out to sound is that that zimmerman just chased this kid, got out of his vehicle and walked up to him and shot him. I think we all know that is NOT what happened here. not by a long shot.
and the fact is if this was a criminal breaking into cars or houses he would have acted the exact same way this kid acted. he would be wearing a hoodie to hide his identity and would be running from someone who was now aware of his presense in a neighborhood he had no business being in. the fact that he kid had the right to be there is irrelevant. that information was not known to zimmerman at the time.
ill agree that he was probably some wannabe cop but the trigger happy cop wannabe part is quite a stretch considerig we have little to no information as to what happened after zimmerman exited his vehicle.
Well, at the end of te day, we are judged and sentenced by humans so the possibility of me going to jail would be there. Yes i would kill the man. No questions about that. Wouldn't think twice about it . Yes, it would be wrong. But hey, Im only human
