Eli Jeff
The guy did his own neighborhhhod watch thing. The yellow journalists keep saying ‘self-appointed’ as if there is some official governing body over neighborhood watches in FL (there isn’t), that’s why he regularly called the cops.
Now if you were trying to keep your gated community secure and some kid you don’t know is wandering around it and when you try to get a better look pulls his hoodie over his head and tries to elude you, it’s suspicious. Cops would consider it probably cause to stop, question, and search you. Pulling up the hoodie and evading are ‘furtive gestures’.
The fact is, in FL, if Trayvon had pulled the same stunt on a cop he’d be just as dead and likely with more holes in him.
Does this mean I’m famous now?
haha… furtive gestures. From everything I’ve read about the incident, this Zimmerman dude should be ashamed of himself for getting ‘dominated’ in a tussle with a kid 100+ lbs lighter than him; and he should probably go into witness protection as well.
What I find to be troubling about this debate is how the violent behavior of a private citizen is justified by comparing it to how a police officer would act in the same situation. Now, I haven’t practiced law in a bit, but I don’t recall private citizens ever having probable cause to do anything at all, even in backwards shoot-first-ask-questions-later jurisdictions. If I were stopped by some random vigilante laying claim to “private” property I was legally on, I’d furtively gesture to my 12″ c**k and spotless record and remind him that it’s law-abiding, prosperous, hard-working folks like us who are the backbone of this great country–not gun-toting criminals like Zimmerman. Florida and other states have gone too far in letting any idiot own a weapon in the name of freedom, and this, unfortunately, is the sad product.
12″?!
Owning and carrying weapons is a right granted by G-d, not the state. It is the state that tries to deny your rights, it is the state that has programmed you into your defective thinking.
haha, owning guns is really kind of like one big penis measuring competition when you think about it… interesting perspective, Kashif.