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Originally Posted by Flames Fan, Ph.D.
I guess I don't understand this train of thought.
None of those bits of information that you find salient (the tattoo, the weed) would be available to Mr. Zimmerman at the time that he made his decision.
So how can you say that it is "obvious" to point out that Trayvon would be suspicious?
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6'3" hoodied kid not known to be a resident in a community beset by burglaries. And, as it turned out, he didn't live there.
Zimmerman phoned it in. Neighbourhood watches are set up for that circumstance. He had that right.
The kid also has the right to walk where he wants (although one of his suspensions from school was for walking in a place he wasn't supposed to be) just like Zimmerman or any other citizen has the right to phone it in as well.
From the point of view of statistical probability, I don't mind if Zimmerman added emphasis because the kid was black. That's not necessarily racist. It could be considered practical. Admittedly, however, that would be a controversial position to mouth ahead of time to a police dispatcher if it all goes south on you.
For all you or I know, Treyvan might have got that women's jewellry he couldn't explain from the same neighbourhood a few weeks earlier.
The rest of the night is open to discussion.
Cowperson