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

I know it wasn't accredited with the national neighborhood watch, but that's it from there.

 

Did either of these things happen? I don't know.

We know at least one detective recommended charges be filed. Was it the Prosecutor who decided not file charges? I mean, that happens, right? Happens all the time on Law & Order.

And, was there really a cover up? The press didn't jump on this case originally. I think to some degree this was a small Police Department that had no idea how to handle the PR nightmare that came with national scrutiny.

And, again, I think this did deserve additional scrutiny. Maybe there was a coverup, but I'm not sure we can make that conclusion yet either.

 

The easy thing for the police to do was to arrest Jefferson and kick the can down the road to the prosecutor to handle.

 

Where did you read that "Martin was in a car at first"?

 

Am I wrong? I thought this was the case.

Working backwards, I tried using google to see, and came up with this, though I realize Examiner might not be the best news source:

 

The cover-up portion comes from the many accounts from witnesses who said the cops flat-out wouldn't talk to them, and then when the cops did talk to them, they tried to steer the witnesses away from their own version of events toward that of the cops (e.g. who was crying for help, who was on the ground, etc.). There was a very lengthy delay, for no clear reason, in the release of the 911 tapes. The police chief put himself out there by saying Zimmerman was so unmotivated by race that he didn't even cite Martin's ethnicity on the 911 calls, which was a complete lie. They didn't test Zimmerman for alcohol or drugs, which would be a common procedure for any suspected homicide. (This is where the decision not to arrest him has the most practical implication on the court case.) There were quite a few other inconsistencies, but those are the big ones, and they all show a police department that didn't want answers.

 

There's this too:

 

OK. If that's all true, then that's a fair assessment.

 

Zimmerman is not Martin.

 

Where does it say anything close to "Martin was in a car at first"?

 

Yes. Someone getting killed for no reason is kinda upsetting.

 

So much for the "Martin beat Zimmerman and broke his nose" theory: