@hawkeye10,
Quote:the investigator was unable to convince either the chief or the DA to arrest Zimmerman, because they knew that the law does not allow arresting people on only a gut feeling that someone is guilty of a crime. the state needs evidence of guilt, and they had none.
What makes you think the chief police investigator even tried to "convince" either of them that night? He was doing his job--investigating a homicide--and, since he didn't believe the shooter's account, because he didn't find it credible, he made an appropriate recommendation to the D.A. that Zimmerman be charged with manslaughter. He did what was the norm in such situations--he gave the D.A. his professional opinion, in a signed affidavit, and that was the recommendation of the police that night.
As far as I know, the Police Chief wasn't involved in any of the decisions of that night. Do you have any evidence he was? Or don't you bother with evidence?
Someone telling the truth, would not have glaring contradictions, inconsistencies, and apparent "embellishments" in his account of a killing he claimed was done in "self-defense"--to a seasoned chief police investigator that suggests the person is lying. In addition, the victim was unarmed, and he had no injuries beyond a single bullet hole to his chest, and didn't appear to have been in a fight. And Zimmerman's injuries were minor. It didn't add up to self-defense, and that's also why Zimmerman wasn't believed. That's enough to justify a manslaughter charge. Zimmerman's account was not credible and convincing, and it was not supported by the physical evidence. And Zimmerman shouldn't have been following the person. Everything about the shooting was very questionable.
There was no "gut feeling" about guilt--they had a dead body, and Zimmerman admitted to killing him.
Quote:the call to not arrest was ratified by tbe jury much later...
Are you really nuts? You think an acquittal, in any criminal case, means the suspect shouldn't have been arrested in the first place?
The only one who made the call not to arrest that night was the D.A., the Police Chief had nothing to do with it. And the D.A.'s decision not to charge Zimmerman may have indicated he just wasn't that concerned about the death of another unarmed black kid to investigate any further, and he wasn't interested in any case that wasn't an absolute slam drunk.
The Governor had every reason to take a better look at the D.A.'s actions of that night, and to replace him with a special prosecutor, particularly when it became known that the victim wasn't a criminal of any sort, he was a high school kid, and a house guest in that community, just returning from a trip to the store. That cast even more doubt on the truthfulness of things that Zimmerman said to the police, because, in totality, this case didn't add up to a legitimate self-defense scenario.
Are you saying that elected public officials, like a governor, should ignore very vocal concerns from the public about whether the state criminal justice system (i.e. the D.A.) had acted appropriately in handling this homocide? Particularly when the chief police investigator had also wanted Zimmerman arrested and charged with manslaughter the night of the shooting? I definitely do want my governor to take action in cases like that.
And none of this changes the fact you were wrong, dead wrong, when you said I was lying about the chief police investigator not believing Zimmerman, and his having felt Zimmerman should have been arrested, and charged with manslaughter, the night of the shooting, and that was his recommendation to the D.A. I wasn't lying, those are the facts of the matter. And you are simply a horse's ass.
The egg is still on your face.
