It's Watch!... Neighborhood Watch. Not shoot.

YF, there IS evidence the dispatcher asked Zimmerman, "Where is he now?" So was Zimmerman supposed to give an educated guess or check to see if he could see Martin (by getting out of his truck). Again, it's amazing how those who watched the trial are supposed to defer to those who just watched the news.

 

Looking back I guess this wasn't good enough.

 

A 911 dispatcher is not a "police agent" and is not authorized to give orders.

They are specifically not allowed to tell someone to follow, or not follow, someone else.

 

Oh, stop it with those pesky facts. There are emotions to play upon!

 

If Zimmerman stayed in his car what would have been likely to happen?

 

Truck driver cuts off your wife on her way home. Almost causes her to have an accident.

You tell her you're going to write a letter to the company complaining about the driver.

"You don't need to do that, honey" she says.

Will this "order" from your wife cause you to change your mind?

Has "you don't need to do that" ever stopped ANYBODY from doing something?

Yet to hear people, you'd think it was akin to a direct order from Col. Nathan R. Jessup.

 

So a dispatcher can't impact in independent agent? But I thought he was working in concert with the police.

Only a few posts ago, "Zimmerman did work "in concert" with law enforcement. The night of the killing, he called the cops." But now his only link to the cops is not a police agent at all. Interesting.

 

It's OK for black kids to defer to the authority of others. I'm sure everyone here would approach Zimmerman in a rational manner if he was following them

 

Not many people do "bitter person on the losing side" better than Pierce.

 

Conversely, if Martin had kept his cool and continued walking home instead of beating the shit out of Zimmerman, what would have been likely to happen?

There's plenty of blame to go around on both sides of this fucking mess.

But people like Charlie Pierce won't ever accept that Trayon Martin must accept even the slightest bit of responsibility for his own behavior that night.

He's the worst kind of racist -- the kind who sees racism in everyone else but can't recognize his own.

 

Pointing out hypocrisy is never bad logic.

I'm tired of people who worry about a speck of dust in one eye while ignoring a redwood tree in another.

 

I don't know....another burgalary? Nothing? How about this....if Trayvon Martin would not have jumped Zimmerman from the bushes, what would have been likely not to have happened?