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Originally Posted by Vulcan
I don't read it that way at all. To me it says stop whatever you are doing, now. Zimmerman replies okay, so that should have been the end of it.
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Whether you read it as that is one thing, but both the transcripts and the actual audio seem to indicate that once he was told that he didn't have to "do that" he stopped and tried to set up a place for the police to meet him.
I'm sure quite a few people have not even bothered to listen to this (not directing this at you but it's pretty obvious that flameswin is one of these people), but tell me where Zimmerman crossed the line and disobeyed the dispatcher here:
Sure, it's entirely possible that once Zimmerman hung up the phone that he started looking for Martin again and then began harassing him which escalated to the fight, but that is simply baseless speculation. The tape indicates that he saw someone suspicious, called 911 and described the person and what he was doing, stopped following Martin when he was told that they did not want him followed, and then set up a meeting place for the police. That all sounds very reasonable to me.