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Originally Posted by getbak
I'm sure this is old news to people who have been following this since the beginning, but I just came across it today. Over the seven and a half years prior to the shooting, Zimmerman made 46 separate calls to the local police 911 and non-emergency lines. In those calls, he reported a wide variety of things, from loud parties and dangerous drivers, to open garage doors, and children playing in the street.
Every call is documented, and those documents were made public by the local police: http://www.documentcloud.org/documen...l-history.html
It seems like he's hyper-vigilant nearly to the point of paranoia. |
Or some type of neighbourhood watch member.
47 calls, seems excessive at first glance, but several of them are from alarms going off, a couple of them are back-to-back calls (so it's not 47 separate incicents) and many are simply 311 calls here. Trash blocking the road, potholes causing damage, even noise complaints? Not exactly screaming anything of importance here. The loose dogs and pitbulls in his garage we already knew about, that's why he got the gun in the first place.
So you filter out that and you got about 10 incidents of him calling due to "suspicious people", including Trayvon. One of which would have been the phone call were he reported a thief who was later caught, another involved some men with a slim jim so he gets a free pass on that one. So maybe 8 phone calls, not all 911, of "suspicious behaviour" over 8 years, for someone who joined neighbourhood watch I don't know if that's a crazy number.
I would say the most important fact to take away from that is that not everyone he reported was of a certain race. He had reported suspicious behavior of Hispanic and white males as well.