During the 911 call, he says: "These assholes...they always get away."
And then later in the call, slightly under his breath, he says: "Fucking coons."
Pretty incriminating to me. Seems like he was a confused and angry racist with a gun, and Trayvon Martin was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
That's what I thought. I had a feeling a racial slur had been thrown in there somewhere, I just didn't know what one it would've been-my money would've been on the "n" word, but "coons"? Wow.
Your last sentence pretty much sums it up, I think.
ooh, so basically it's like he's made his neighbourhood his own country and he's claimed dominion or something. i'd love to know if something happened to make him this paranoid or if he just watched the news too much and bought into the sensationalism too much. omg all they talk about is robberies and murders! i'm not safe! i need to buy a gun and patrol my neighbourhood 24/7!
Something like that, yeah-I keep hearing about him being associated with a "neighborhood watch", but I don't know if it was an actual organized neighborhood watch or he, like you said, just sort of appointed himself the neighborhood watchdog.
It would be interesting to delve further into his background and find out about possible specific mental problems or any sorts of fears that seemed to be piling up or whatever.
i'm not a fan of these types of laws as it is since, gosh, it isn't the 1700s anymore. i guess if you feel the need to have a gun to protect yourself just in case then fine, and if someone breaks into your home and is armed and threatening to shoot you and your family then fine. but it shouldn't be determined before the body's even left the scene that yep, self defence, you're not going to be charged. but even that is someone breaking into your house. i'd love to know how a teenager on a sidewalk with a bag of skittles posed any kind of threat. was he afraid he was going to open the bag and start throwing them at him or something?
Exactly. I said this when this story originally was mentioned in that "absolutely disgusted" stories thread-if I'm keeping an eye on the neighborhood and I see a person wandering around the streets that appears suspicious to me, I would call the police and report any activities I saw while staying a safe distance away, either hiding in my car or in my house or something of that sort. Heck, I'd alert neighbors via phone or text or something to let them know to stay indoors if I felt the threat were legitimate enough.
If I find someone that scary, I sure as hell am not going to advertise my whereabouts and go up to them and start confronting them right then and there. I don't think he knew the kid had the candy on him at the time-I don't know what he thought the kid had on him or would've done. But if he was that scared of him, he should've just called the police, reported what he saw/heard, and let THEM handle the situation.
Or, he could've just not jumped to warped conclusions to begin with. Last I was aware of, merely walking down the street isn't a crime. Especially if it's your own neighborhood.
Which, come to think of it, also begs a question-how long did both Zimmerman and the Martins live in the same neighborhood? Zimmerman had lived there at least a year, since, like I said, he'd been making calls in that neighborhood for that length of time. If they both had lived in that neighborhood for a long enough time, they may not have been buddies who hang out on weekends and have barbecues, but I would think they would've at least passed each other every now and again to the point where Zimmerman would've been able to recognize the kid as someone who lived in the neighborhood instead of presuming him to be some weird stranger who was planning to do harm to people.