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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. old_tony

    old_tony Well-Known Member

    And make it a white male and it's in the local briefs on page 12B. Since we're talking two males in this case, you might want to make it apples to apples.
     
  2. Flying Headbutt

    Flying Headbutt Moderator Staff Member

    Yeah, I was gonna say, if the race roles were reversed, Zimmerman would be locked up and with that crazy bitch from Headline News live on location with a hammer and nails building a gallows.
     
  3. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    Bang zoom end of credibility.

    LMAO.
     
  4. hondo

    hondo Well-Known Member

    That was a helluva piece and proof that lawmakers should perhaps consult with the police before concocting laws like this.
    The Orlando Sentinel did a great story that cited numerous, numerous examples of Florida cops arresting people who claimed they shot or otherwise harmed someone claiming self-defense or "standing their ground." Their attitude is, "let's let the court system decided this ... for now, you have the right to remain silent ...."
    Arresting Zimmerman on the spot would have defused much of the tension, if not all of it. They certainly had enough from the 911 calls.
     
  5. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

    Good. Timing is interesting. Similar situation to Danroy Henry. Trigger happy cops fire into a car of black men doing nothing more than driving away from a bar.

    Interesting timing. Almost
     
  6. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    4. Medical Examiner would do a tox screen on every homicide victim, probably on every autopsy.

    3. Police never do tox screens on suspects without a search warrant or a court order. Except in the case of a DUI with serious bodily injury or death.

    5. Dominique Strauss-Kahn says don't rush to judgment
     
  7. old_tony

    old_tony Well-Known Member

    Proving once again you have limited reading abilities and nothing to contribute. As I pointed out, the news departments of local fox stations are not at all affiliated with Fox News Channel.
     
  8. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

    As much as I believe that Zimmerman should be locked up, I also believe in civil liberties for all.
     
  9. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    Bullshit. They all take their marching orders from the top.

    Sensationalize, incite, inflate, inflame, and always always always blame the scary colored people.

    Teevee stations just like newspapers get phone calls from the Mothership every morning. If they want to keep their jobs (or ever climb up the ladder) they dance to the tune dictated by the big boys.

    And the big boys' tune is dictated by the Big Boys.

    [​IMG]
     
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  10. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    Interesting how the one witness backing up Zimmerman's story is an anonymous man named "John" who hadn't previously been quoted until now when the story is two weeks old and the police department is looking like something straight out of Mississippi Burning. Meanwhile the witnesses who forced authorities to actually pay attention to this did so by giving their full names in full view of cameras and the world.

    But the police have been so above-board throughout this ordeal that there's no reason to question why they would give more weight to this mystery man than to all the other witnesses including the woman in whose backyard the shooting occurred.
     
  11. Flying Headbutt

    Flying Headbutt Moderator Staff Member

    Except the ones owned by the same parent company.
     
  12. old_tony

    old_tony Well-Known Member

    Not too many people begin a post with one word that sums up everything that will follow it. Congratulations.

    And I notice your attempts to completely avoid the police report noting "Zimmerman was bloody in his face and head, and the back of his shirt was wet and had grass stains, indicating a struggle took place before the shooting."

    Again, I still think Zimmerman created all the problems in this story. But I'm willing to look at all possibilities. You're predisposed to look at only one possibility.
     
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