@Advocate,
Quote:Being this is a neighborhood that is plagued with crime, I would expect a neighborhood watch person to follow suspicious people
Neighborhood Watch volunteers are not supposed to follow
anyone--that's their rules.
They aren't security guards and they're not law enforcement.
The dispatcher never told Zimmerman to keep Martin in his line of sight. When Zimmerman confirmed he was following Martin, the dispatcher said, "we don't need you to do that."
All Neighborhood Watch volunteers should do is call the police if there is something they want them to check out. Period.
Quote:M then jumped Z, knocking him to the ground , and began beating Z to a pulp
There is no evidence that Martin "jumped" Zimmerman--none, zip, zilch. The last thing Rachel Jeantel heard Martin say, to Zimmerman, was, "Get off me," and it was Zimmerman who had apparently approached Martin. Zimmerman may have grabbed Martin's arm, and he might have reached for his gun, and that may have provoked a single self-defense punch from Martin, who didn't know what the hell this creep wanted, why he had been following him, or what he might do to him--
Zimmerman never identified himself..
Stop with the "beating to a pulp" lies--Zimmerman didn't even require a Band-Aid, let alone any medical treatment..Martin threw only one punch--there was no evidence of anything more than that. And that may have been in legitimate self-defense.
This is Zimmerman, in the police station, the night of the shooting, after he had wiped the dramatic looking blood off his face--he looks fine.
This is Zimmerman's father-in-law after Zimmerman assaulted him in September--you can see the injury on his nose--and it's larger than the injury on Zimmerman's nose after the shooting..
I guess his father-in-law had reason to shoot Zimmerman in self-defense if you think a blow to the nose, and very minor injuries, are enough to justify deadly force.