Florida's Stand your Ground law

) As a volunteer for that group, he ignored their instructions that volunteers are not allowed to arm themselves

I have seen no evidence that this group forbid its members from carrying a weapon.

The police had no authority to forbid it, and in fact all the literature on setting up a watch group is consistent that the practice is discouraged by the state but not forbidden

It woud be unConstitutional for the police to intimidate
the citizens from exercising their Constitutional Right of carrying defensive guns

Given your hostility towards the US government

one might think that you would be interested in commenting on the governments authority to order Zimmerman about before this unfortunate event.

but no, all you come up with a gratuitous personal insult.

SANFORD, Fla. — Last August, Wendy Dorival got a call about setting up a local neighborhood watch. As the volunteer coordinator for the Police Department here, she gets such calls regularly, and the city already had at least 10 active watch groups. So she thought nothing of this call, from George Zimmerman

She set up a visit for the next month at the Retreat at Twin Lakes, a gated community that had been dealing with a string of burglaries. When 25 residents showed up, a decent turnout, she had the residents introduce themselves; after all, people join the groups to look out for each other. She then gave a PowerPoint presentation and distributed a handbook. As she always does, she emphasized what a neighborhood watch is — and what it is not.

In every presentation, “I go through what the rules and responsibilities are,” she said Thursday. The volunteers’ role, she said, is “being the eyes and ears” for the police, “not the vigilante.” Members of a neighborhood watch “are not supposed to confront anyone,” she said. “We get paid to get into harm’s way. You don’t do that. You just call them from the safety of your home or your vehicle.”

Using a gun in the neighborhood watch role would be out of the question, she said in an interview.

As the volunteer coordinator for the Police Department here, she gets such calls regularly,

We see here David the State intimidating the citizens...

that night he was NOT operating as a member or a representative of a recognized neighborhood watch organization, since he was violating the organization's rules

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We see here David the State intimidating the citizens...

How so? The State isn't forcing anyone to voluntarily join a neighborhood watch group. Are you implying that it's unconstitutional for such organizations to adopt rules and regulations and then expect their members to abide by them?

Please supply documentation for this assertion.

Zimmerman called for assistance in forming the group. He was under no pressure to make that call. He called the Sanford Police Department.

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Please supply documentation for this assertion.

In your own post, Hawk, Post: # 4,951,108, the one or one of the ones that are using to advance your bogus claims.

That it was sound advice, does not matter.

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That it was sound advice, does not matter.

It actually makes one wonder why he placed the call at all. He obviously had no intention of following the operator/dispatcher's advice, just as he had no intention of referring to the training offered by the Sanford Police Department for neighborhood watch volunteers. No weapons. Don't confront.

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That it was sound advice, does not matter.

It actually makes one wonder why he placed the call at all. He obviously had no intention of following the operator/dispatcher's advice, just as he had no intention of referring to the training offered by the Sanford Police Department for neighborhood watch volunteers. No weapons. Don't confront.

Unless he planned to push the confrontation to the point that something (getting to fire his weapon) would happen, and premeditated that the only way to be sure to get away with it would be to claim self-defense (standing his ground) to the police.