“Merits? Which merits are those. Speculation as to what took place prior to the physical altercation and the shooting? Because that is all anyone has, including me. Why are these individuals here so hell-bent on shutting me and anyone else down who are simply asking for answers to questions that have none.”
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I can’t speak for anyone else, but I disagree with you for the following reasons:
I have seen the media do this time and time again. See my previous post about DC. I can see right through what they’re doing. The WHOLE REASON we are on this board having to hash this out is NOT because the police didn’t do a proper investigation, IT’S BECAUSE THE MEDIA is reporting this in a half a**ed, cockeyed manner. People like you are left to believe poor young Trayvon, clutching his little Skittles, was just skipping home and POW!
This is what the media wants you to think. So some of us try to see past the media narrative, try to open up the cracks a bit and really examine the police report and think critically. Like a surgeon, divorce yourself of all emotion and thoughts of “MAN, THIS IS SO MESSED UP!” or you will reach a biased conclusion. I have been on countless homicide scenes. The police know what to look for.
NOTHING WOULD MAKE A COP HAPPIER THAN TO MAKE A HOMICIDE ARREST! It looks great on a resume. The police on scene got statements from witnesses, called a supervisor to the scene, got crime scene techs and detectives involved, processed the scene, took Zimmerman downtown and had him questioned by detectives, took the gun as evidence and.... when they put all the pieces together determined they had no probable cause to charge him with a crime.
Now you come into the picture, wanting some unnamed impartial person or organization to come in and investigate again.
Not only do I find this a tremendous waste of resources, but it FEEDS INTO the media narrative that something is amiss here, and feeds into the crowd mentality that “Zimmerman must hang”.
I'm not paying attention to the drive by media reports that his was a racist act against a Black youth. I could care less about their agenda. The initial reports of this incident that I read and watched were not filled with the drive-by histrionics that came later. I ask these questions not based upon Al Sharpton's ascertions this was racially motivated (because it isn't), but because, from my perspective, there are missing pieces. Whether they are missing because they weren't covered, or because they weren't released by officials, it is my opinion that the officals on the ground have allowed this incident to get out of hand. I don't believe Zimmerman was out looking for someone to shoot. I don't believe law enforcement is purposely trying to cover anything up. But as you know, it's not what is real it is what is perception in the minds of those who will cause problems. The race-baiters have a political agenda. I only want to know what happened.