Beware of Blacks with Skittles?

Arrest is due process: where an alleged homicide has been reported, it surely is standard procedure to arrest the alleged perpertrator as part of the investigation, if nothing else to rule him out of the enquiry if indeed he is innocent, or to have him charged and brought before a court if it is suspected he is not. Only then can he be judged by his peers and the full facts and all the evidence ventilated in open court. But the point is that that can't even begin to happen unless he is arrested. Surely therefore that is the first step, no?

 

He was advised not to confront him. There is a difference.

Here's the simple fact: You swallowed hook, line and sinker a piece of propaganda designed to incite outrage of an undiscerning public against one who was protecting innocent residents from the violations of a violent member of a politically protected race.

 

On this side of the pond, there must be cause for arrest, and cause cannot be assumed. Those who were on the scene determined that there was no cause for arrest.

 

Er...there must be cause this side of the Pond too. A corpse with a gunshot wound plus a guy standing near it with a smoking gun is usually a good starter for ten.

 

Can you cite the law, or are you just mouthing off?


























Thought so.

 

A thief was shot while trespassing.

I won't lose any sleep over this.

 

By all means I can cite the law, which is based on the same sort of common law as we have over here. I believe the term US law uses is 'probable cause' which is congruent in meaning with our 'reasonable suspicion'; thus the circumstances of this case, which in UK law would amount to 'reasonable suspicion' would similarly make out grounds for arrest in the US.

So, no 'spouting off', just the law and the facts. Whether or not a homicide is ultimately made out will be for a judge and jury to decide in the usual manner, but they should at least be given that chance.

 

...until they come for you.

 

Whether Zimmerman is guilty or not, none of us know for sure. However, there is One who does know, and His judgement is always right.

 

To those of you who are hell-bent on condemning this guy BEFORE all the facts are in, just remember the Duke Lacrosse fiasco!!!

I would have expected much better from the average poster on this board, but apparently there are more lemmings than is first obvious.

I have had one experience with "reporters" and after the butcher job they did on my comments I have shied away from them like I would the plague. Thankfully there was no controversial topic, but the hatchet job on my comments was enough for me to ever avoid "reporters"!

Investigation may prove him totally guilty of pure murder - or an honest self-defense - but there is absolutely no way this character will ever be able to get an unbiased jury unless they move the venue to the out-back of Australia.

But should he be proven, PROVEN, totally justified in his actions, is there any way he can ever live free of the fear of reprisals of jack-asses like the Black Panthers, that have been stirred up by the media , and the professional race-baiters?????????

And all y'all who give credence to these "factual(?) reports" are doing your little part to keep TRUE justice from ever being achieved.

Even Bill O'Reilly (as much as he irritates me) advocates waiting for the facts to be determined before casting judgement.

One last point; remember that the media "telling you all the facts" about this incident, is the same media that praises the "ZERO'S" accomplishments. Why would you trust them on ANYTHING????

The following joke tells you the credibility that should be given to all these "journalistic(?)" reports.

 

Actually he was told he didn't NEED to do that. There was no direct command to not do it.

 

There are still too much assuming of facts not in evidence going on here.

Do we know that Zimmerman did not stop following when told to do so?

Is it possible that immediately after hanging up with the 911 dispatch that the incident occurred?

 

Where is this petition for every other wrong that occurs?

I don't know if Zimmerman is guilty or not. I tend to agree with you that he is.

With that said, this particular petition for this particular instance is nothing more than a race filled petition. It has nothing to do with justice, or we'd see this kind of thing for every murder ever committed.

 

From his testimony he was walking back to the car when Trayvon approached him asking him if he had a problem. Zimmerman allegedly said no, and Trayvon allegedly said "you do now" and decked him in the face breaking his nose. He then allegedly began to mount and beat him.

At any rate, "we don't need you to do that" is hardly "stop doing that". I would have taken it as a polite way to say I didn't have to put myself in harms way.

 

Based on his account, how could he?