There is something going on in Sanford, but, I don't think anyone can completely blame it on racism. The police dispatcher told Zimmerman not to pursue Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman did anyway.
The body of the young man was not treated with importance, except, they were testing a man walking and not driving for substances after his death. I already know what killed him and it wasn't substances, it was a flailed chest wound. With instantaneous death it probably cut through a major vessel of the heart. My guess is the inferior vena cava.
But, for a body to remain unknown to family for three days is more than troublesome. What were they waiting for?
As far as testing Zimmerman, if one cannot arrest him how do they test him for substances?
There is some speculation in the popular media about racism.
...The growing sentiment felt by Sanford residents (click title to entry - thank you) is that not only did the police free Zimmerman, but their slow footed treatment of the investigation shows that they don’t care. If Zimmerman was not white and the teen was not black, things would be different....
If that is the case, I am having a difficult time believing a police department warning Zimmerman not to follow the young man, whom they already believed was a black man, is actively practicing racism. There is a very strange curiosity about the treatment of the body after the crime and of course there is the implication a state law passed in 2005 exonerates murderers, but, to say this happened because of a strong racist culture in Sanford is not completely realistic.
I believe the police were correct. Were they slow to arrive? That is another question, but, they didn't kill Trayvon, a vigilante empowered by a loosening of constraints on hand gun use did.
It could be the medical examiner just didn't have a clue to look on the cell phone for people that might know an unidentified body. Did they take fingerprints in hoping of finding a record somewhere or not? Did they simply categorize Trayvon as a John Doe and why? Funding of the medical examiner is in question, like what is going on here that answers those questions.
Did the family file a missing persons? Did the parents know about the girlfriend and how to reach her? Did she speak to the family after she heard the death of their son over the phone? What was going on that prohibited Trayvon from being discovered dead to his family and not simply dead, but, murdered. There are a lot of questions about what transpired here and to simply cry racism is to hide them from examination. Those answers will probably come before the Grand Jury so I suggest real dynamics of these circumstances be examined and contextualized within this murder.
Trayvon is trusting us, the community most concerned for his death, to 'get it right.' We need to do that. The Grand Jury has to understand the real crime here and it can't be cloaked in our own misunderstandings or leanings. It is the community that has brought this atrocity this far, we can't risk having the Grand Jury not understand this clearly and if it includes racism, then so be it, but, there is reason to defend the actions of police so far.
The body of the young man was not treated with importance, except, they were testing a man walking and not driving for substances after his death. I already know what killed him and it wasn't substances, it was a flailed chest wound. With instantaneous death it probably cut through a major vessel of the heart. My guess is the inferior vena cava.
But, for a body to remain unknown to family for three days is more than troublesome. What were they waiting for?
As far as testing Zimmerman, if one cannot arrest him how do they test him for substances?
There is some speculation in the popular media about racism.
...The growing sentiment felt by Sanford residents (click title to entry - thank you) is that not only did the police free Zimmerman, but their slow footed treatment of the investigation shows that they don’t care. If Zimmerman was not white and the teen was not black, things would be different....
If that is the case, I am having a difficult time believing a police department warning Zimmerman not to follow the young man, whom they already believed was a black man, is actively practicing racism. There is a very strange curiosity about the treatment of the body after the crime and of course there is the implication a state law passed in 2005 exonerates murderers, but, to say this happened because of a strong racist culture in Sanford is not completely realistic.
I believe the police were correct. Were they slow to arrive? That is another question, but, they didn't kill Trayvon, a vigilante empowered by a loosening of constraints on hand gun use did.
It could be the medical examiner just didn't have a clue to look on the cell phone for people that might know an unidentified body. Did they take fingerprints in hoping of finding a record somewhere or not? Did they simply categorize Trayvon as a John Doe and why? Funding of the medical examiner is in question, like what is going on here that answers those questions.
Did the family file a missing persons? Did the parents know about the girlfriend and how to reach her? Did she speak to the family after she heard the death of their son over the phone? What was going on that prohibited Trayvon from being discovered dead to his family and not simply dead, but, murdered. There are a lot of questions about what transpired here and to simply cry racism is to hide them from examination. Those answers will probably come before the Grand Jury so I suggest real dynamics of these circumstances be examined and contextualized within this murder.
Trayvon is trusting us, the community most concerned for his death, to 'get it right.' We need to do that. The Grand Jury has to understand the real crime here and it can't be cloaked in our own misunderstandings or leanings. It is the community that has brought this atrocity this far, we can't risk having the Grand Jury not understand this clearly and if it includes racism, then so be it, but, there is reason to defend the actions of police so far.
