This is what cops believe happened.
Believed doesn't hold up in court.
Zimmerman called 911
Tells dispatch there is a suspicious black man.
Zimmerman says Martin is walking towards him.
Zimmerman says he thinks Martin is on drugs.
Dispatcher: Yeah we've got someone on the way, just let me know if this guy does anything else.
Dispatch says police are on the way.
Zimmerman tells the dispatcher Martin is running towards the back entrance.
After that, he mumbles under his breath, fucking person.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQdsJwpSUKwDispatch says are you following him?
Zimmerman: Yeah
911 says OK, we don't need you to do that.
Zimmerman says OK and acknowledges he understood the emergency dispatcher order.
Not an order. A statement.
We don’t know if Zimmerman continued to follow Martin or not but he said on the 911 tape that he was following him at one point on the tape.
Zimmerman says he was walking towards his car after saying Martin was headed towards the back entrance.
Zimmerman says he lost sight of an allegedly dangerous person on drugs and he felt that person was such a threat the
he needed a gun and to call the police but lost sight of him.
He had the gun before he followed him.
Martin's girlfriend says he told her that Zimmerman was following him and that he was scared.
Martin’s girlfriend overheard Martin say, “Why are you following me?” and Zimmerman replied, “What are you doing around here?”
She says she told Martin to try to get away, but she suddenly heard shoving before the cell-phone went dead.
This counters the idea that Zimmerman stopped following Martin because if Martin was afraid of Zimmerman why would he approach him.
Trayvon could have decided to confront him and changed direction.
On top of that, the girlfriend says she heard shoving before the cell-phone went dead.
She probably did, and she probably heard Trayvon punch Zimmerman in the face too.Then a fight happens after being told to wait for the police and not to follow him by the emergency dispatcher. He was never told not to follow.
The fight had already started, probably before the phone went dead.
At this point is when witnesses are now looking outside and people are calling 911 about what they see and hear.
On one 911 call a women says she hears Martin screaming.
Thats bullshit. She said she heard what sounded like a little boy screaming and assumed it was the younger person involved.Another witness says she saw Martin on top of Zimmerman and Zimmerman screaming.
And yet another witness that said the person laying on the ground was screaming.Zimmerman used a racial slur and Martin felt his life was in danger and Zimmerman decided to kill Martin after provoking the entire situation and not expecting Martin to put up a fight and at that point, he also feared for his life.
Racial slurs don't cause physical harm. Zimmerman chose to use deadly force after antagonizing the entire situation, knowing police were on the way and after being told by emergency dispatch not to follow or approach.
In addition, Zimmerman has shown to be an overzealous wannabe cop with a history of violence.
Irrelevant. Zimmerman made nearly 50 calls to police in the last six years and has on his record resisting an officer with violence and battery of law enforcement officer and accusations of domestic violence.
Irrelevant.This tragedy
very true is the what happens when you have an untrained, unsupervised, armed citizenry patrolling neighborhoods.
The detective thought Zimmerman should be charged with HOMICIDE-NEGLIG-MANSL-UNNECESSARY KILLING TO PREVENT UNLAWFUL ACT but was overruled by others at the PD for political reasons.
Or, overruled because multiple minds are better than one. The detective did not buy Zimmerman’s self defense story, and filed an affidavit claiming so.
Based on the information given this is what took place.
Thats why we have jurys of 12 people to convict someone. The cops simply wanted a second or third oppinion. Perhaps, there were more cops that did buy Zimmermans story. Or, combined his story with the lack of evidence to convict. It takes more than a belief in this country to convict.
Republicans have the idea that if you’re losing a fight. That you have the right to kill even if your story doesn’t make sense, antagonized the entire situation, disregarded emergency dispatch orders, and should be allowed to go unpunished is absurd.
Bullshit, there was no such order.
Zimmerman should be charged with Imperfect self-defense/ voluntary manslaughter
This is what a 25 + year police veteran who has worked in four different departments and has been Armed security, Corporal, Detective, Sergeant, Enforcement, and Lieutenant believes happened and would tell a jury happened.
How many years does it take on the job to learn how to follow the evidence trail? He could have a hundred years of experience and I don't care. GIVE ME EVIDENCE NOT BELIEFS OR SUSPICIONS. EVIDENCE! I’m tried of arguing we keep going in circles. I believe what cops think happened and there is no way to change each other minds. Let’s argue about something else now like I know Obama is a heated topic. I’m tired of talking about a 17 year old kids death.