Two weeks ago I was with a friend and we were leaving a department store and walking to our car when we noticed a man, a black man walking near where our car was looking in the adjacent cars.
We knew the deal. We knew this individual was seeking a car with unlocked doors and something of value inside. We had no proof, we only observed what was going on. As we approached we could have been the victim of violence, but, instead we conducted ourselves in a normal fashion and guess what happened?
The black man looking in the cars stopped. He had been discovered, he hadn't committed a crime, he carried nothing with him and he didn't even wear a hoody.
If I were armed and wanted to be a vigilante I could have become confrontational, sought to protect myself and my friend over a potentially unlocked, empty car and I could have shot the man and called it self defense.
I didn't do that. The black man walked as quick as he could away from the parking lot and out of sight. He lived to lust after unlocked cars for another day.
Trayvon Martin was unarmed, he was walking away from George Zimmerman, he was not confrontational, Zimmerman was confrontational and is guilty of murder. If Zimmerman ended up dead, then Martin would have had aggravated reasons to do so, including self-defense. Zimmerman is intimidating the law and it needs to stop now!
...On February 26th, (click title to entry - thank you) 28 year-old neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman was patrolling the gated community of Twin Lakes in t Sanford Florida. When he spotted an unarmed Trayvon Martin walking to his father's house from the convenience store, he called Sanford police and reported that a suspicious person was in the community. He told the dispatcher that he was following him and that he "looked like he was up to no good." The rest is history. Some time between the first phone call to authorities and their arrival, Trayvon lie dead 70 feet away from his father's town-home with Zimmerman claiming self defense. Sanford police charged him with nothing; arguing that there was no evidence to suggest otherwise....
Zimmerman is a zealot, out of control and will do it again.
End of discussion.
