Shooting mystery: Miami-Dade teen killed by a crime watch captain

Miami Herald ^ | Saturday, 03.10.12 | Monique O. Madan

[exhaustguy]

Trayvon Martin traveled to Sanford on a trip with his father. The teen returned to his Miami home in a body bag. Martin, 17, was shot and killed Feb. 26 by a neighborhood crime watch captain. The circumstances of the shooting are still unknown, but George Zimmerman, the 28-year-old man who shot Martin, told police he shot in self-defense.

[org.whodat]

That and they cannot get a job sitting on their ass and doing nothing anywhere else.

[BADROTOFINGER]

This guy is toast and likely deserves it. A kid is in a strange area and some weirdo starts tailing him in his SUV. He is young enough to be rightly scared, but old enough to defend himself. Words were probably exchanged, creepy SUV guy gets out of his car and a fight starts.

If im the guy walking down the street, then guy getting out of his car is a fight or flight situation, no BS about it. This guy should have just called the cops, then minded his own damn business. Just my opinion...

[Charles H. (The_r0nin)]

So serving a one week suispensuion is the death penalty. Wrong!

Nope. Attacking a guy carrying a gun is a "death penalty." Not for criminality... but for stupidity. (If the truth of this case is as it seems, which no one knows yet...)

BTW, with those reasoning skills (and your deft use of the strawman fallacy), are you sure you're on the correct website?

[org.whodat]

What a stupid statement. In this country you have the right to walk down the street without some half ass want to be cop asking you any damn thing. And how in the world do you know who attack who. Try reading the constitution chump. You remind me of the want to be cop in Elizabethton, tn, that decided he would run down and arrest a speeding car driver. She was a doctor on the way to the hospital, the state cop that showed up arrested his ass , after the fine, he is under court order to not play cop anymore.

[Charles H. (The_r0nin)]

So after being chastised for inventing strawmen... you do so again on a grander scale! Obviously you cannot have a discussion without flamboyant hyperbole. Good day to you...

[org.whodat]

Know how many idiot cops are in jail for violating someone civil rights. This a clean case of violation of the kids rights. But I would bet money the idiot shooter is the kid of some half ass cop.

[Sacajaweau]

This was in a gated community where there had recently been robberies. If I was a resident and saw Martin, I'd call someone, too.

Please don't tell me that the kid didn't understand how a gated community worked.I'm sure he's been there before.

How many times was he given "leave" from school?