Neighborhood Watch Group - Race and Politics
What is a neighborhood watch group? The operative word is "watch."
A neighborhood has a crime problem so they form a watch group. Why? To watch for suspicious behavior by someone and report it to the police. Now, once it is reported to the police is the "watch" person to go away? No, he should continue to watch the suspicious person until the police arrive.
If there was a failure in the Zimmerman/Martin event it was the police. They simply did not get there in time to prevent a confrontation incident between the watcher and the suspicious person. Had they arrived promptly it would have been avoided.
My take based on what I've seen and heard from TV accounts is:
° Zimmerman was a volunteer neighborhood watch person.
° Zimmerman had a legal permit to carry a concealed handgun.
° Zimmerman is 5 feet 7 inches tall weighing 158 pounds at the time.
* It was a dark rainy windy night.
* Zimmerman sees a hooded person acting in a suspicious manner.
° Zimmerman watches the hooded person and decides to call the police.
° Zimmerman looses sight of the suspicious person for 4 minutes but stays on the cellphone with the 911 operator..
° The suspicious person (Martin) suddenly emerges from some bushes and confronts Zimmerman who has no idea who Martin is.
° After a short exchange of words Martin (5 feet 11 inches tall weighing 175 pounds) punches Zimmerman in the nose hard enough to break his nose and knock him to the ground.
° Martin pounced astraddle Zimmerman and began to pound his head on a concrete sidewalk hard enough to break the scalp skin and cause bleeding.
° Zimmerman screams for help hoping the police have arrived and will hear him.
° During the struggle Martin sees Zimmerman's gun and makes a move for it.
° Zimmerman withdraws the gun and fires hitting Martin in the chest.
° The police arrive and take Zimmerman into custody.
° The police decided Zimmerman acted in self defense and did not refer the case to the district attorney for indictment.
Forty-four days later:
° Someone at the White House seeking to divert national attention from Obama's scandals called Eric Holder at the Department of Justice (DOJ).
° Someone at the DOJ called Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, et al and said they were sending blue shirted DOJ people to Sanford, FL to facilitate the peace.
° Sharpton, Jackson, et al ran to the closest TV microphone and condemned Zimmerman as a heinous white racist that murdered a black kid just strolling around eating Skettles. (It later was found that Zimmerman was part Hispanic, so he was branded a "white Hispanic.")
° Sharpton, Jackson, et all caught the next available fight to Florida to round up demonstrators and lead a protest march accompanied by the DOJ blue shirts.
° Zimmerman was indicted for 2nd degree murder.
Obama had to even personally interject himself as he said, "If I had a son he would be exactly like Trayvon Martin." Yeah! Sure! Of all the murders committed (especially in Chicago) around the nation, why did this one become the highest profile murder trial since the O.J. Simpson trial?
Don't even try to convince me this is not about race and politics.
A neighborhood has a crime problem so they form a watch group. Why? To watch for suspicious behavior by someone and report it to the police. Now, once it is reported to the police is the "watch" person to go away? No, he should continue to watch the suspicious person until the police arrive.
If there was a failure in the Zimmerman/Martin event it was the police. They simply did not get there in time to prevent a confrontation incident between the watcher and the suspicious person. Had they arrived promptly it would have been avoided.
My take based on what I've seen and heard from TV accounts is:
° Zimmerman was a volunteer neighborhood watch person.
° Zimmerman had a legal permit to carry a concealed handgun.
° Zimmerman is 5 feet 7 inches tall weighing 158 pounds at the time.
* It was a dark rainy windy night.
* Zimmerman sees a hooded person acting in a suspicious manner.
° Zimmerman watches the hooded person and decides to call the police.
° Zimmerman looses sight of the suspicious person for 4 minutes but stays on the cellphone with the 911 operator..
° The suspicious person (Martin) suddenly emerges from some bushes and confronts Zimmerman who has no idea who Martin is.
° After a short exchange of words Martin (5 feet 11 inches tall weighing 175 pounds) punches Zimmerman in the nose hard enough to break his nose and knock him to the ground.
° Martin pounced astraddle Zimmerman and began to pound his head on a concrete sidewalk hard enough to break the scalp skin and cause bleeding.
° Zimmerman screams for help hoping the police have arrived and will hear him.
° During the struggle Martin sees Zimmerman's gun and makes a move for it.
° Zimmerman withdraws the gun and fires hitting Martin in the chest.
° The police arrive and take Zimmerman into custody.
° The police decided Zimmerman acted in self defense and did not refer the case to the district attorney for indictment.
Forty-four days later:
° Someone at the White House seeking to divert national attention from Obama's scandals called Eric Holder at the Department of Justice (DOJ).
° Someone at the DOJ called Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, et al and said they were sending blue shirted DOJ people to Sanford, FL to facilitate the peace.
° Sharpton, Jackson, et al ran to the closest TV microphone and condemned Zimmerman as a heinous white racist that murdered a black kid just strolling around eating Skettles. (It later was found that Zimmerman was part Hispanic, so he was branded a "white Hispanic.")
° Sharpton, Jackson, et all caught the next available fight to Florida to round up demonstrators and lead a protest march accompanied by the DOJ blue shirts.
° Zimmerman was indicted for 2nd degree murder.
Obama had to even personally interject himself as he said, "If I had a son he would be exactly like Trayvon Martin." Yeah! Sure! Of all the murders committed (especially in Chicago) around the nation, why did this one become the highest profile murder trial since the O.J. Simpson trial?
Don't even try to convince me this is not about race and politics.
posted by Donald G Davidson at 3:41 PM
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