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

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!, Mar 8, 2012.

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  1. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Law breaking demonstration in New York:

    I like how this reporter was able to determine that cabbies and truck drivers were honking in support of the marchers:

    Yeah. I'm sure that was it. They weren't honking because they wanted the protestors to get the fuck out of the street.
     
  2. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    Maybe you should try reading more of the transcript.

    This is from the excerpt from daman's post on page 80:


    911 dispatcher: All right, where are you going to meet with them at?

    Zimmerman: Um, if they come in through the gate, tell them to go straight past the clubhouse and, uh, straight past the clubhouse and make a left and then go past the mailboxes you’ll see my truck.

    911 dispatcher: All right, what address are you parked in front of?

    Zimmerman: Um, I don’t know. It’s a cut-through so I don’t know the address.

    911 dispatcher: OK, do you live in the area?

    Zimmerman: Yeah, yeah, I live here.

    911 dispatcher: OK, what’s your apartment number?

    Zimmerman: It’s a home. It’s 1950 – oh, crap, I don’t want to give it out – I don’t know where this kid is.



    Looks like he got out to figure where Martin was or check on the address he was parked in front of.

    But I guess that's not a good reason...
     
  3. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    He was asked for his own address and didn't want to give it out?
     
  4. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    That's because Hispanic isn't a race.

    But, the New York Times and other have never used the term in the context they applied it to Zimmerman. Early reports were that the shooter was white. They didn't want to change the narrative, and with a last name like Zimmerman, they didn't have to. They just labeled him a white Hispanic.

    But, I've never heard folks like Bill Richardson, or Geraldo Rivera referred to in this way.

    Are they going to reintroduce terms like quadroon and octoroon next?
     
  5. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    So you admit it's correct - since Hispanic isn't a race - yet it was a conspiracy when they used it?
     
  6. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    No, he was asked where he was parked first - which is where he said "Um, I don’t know. It’s a cut-through so I don’t know the address."

    The dispatcher then asked him if he lived in the area and what his address was. Not sure why it matters whether he gave it out or not since that's not where the cops were meeting him.
     
  7. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    It isn't a race.

    And, if the media were to consistently apply the term, that would be splendid.
     
  8. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

    Until there is protests for 10 % of population committing 50 % of the murders in USA, It's hard to
    take the Zimmerman decision protests seriously.
     
  9. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    If you want a good batch of certainty, make sure to incorporate a heapin' helpin' of hindsight ...
     
  10. 93Devil

    93Devil Well-Known Member

    Or people look back on their mistakes and wish they handles things differently.

    Still looking for a reason why he needed to get out of the car.
     
  11. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Cops firing rubber bullets at protestors in LA:

     
  12. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Arrests in NYC:

    Christopher Robbins ‏-- @ChristRobbins

    At least 5 arrested, some violently, at 79th and 2nd Ave

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