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In reply to the discussion: Zimmerman's depraved mind [View all]csziggy
(34,189 posts)BECAUSE in the past police did not respond to calls quickly.
As for your facts - Zimmerman did NOT call 911. He called a non-emergency number to report a suspicious person in his neighborhood. If he wanted a quicker response, he should have called 911.
Zimmerman has tried to distort the occurences that night every which way. I do not believe a word that he says. The phrases that he used to the operator on his non-emergency call to the Sanford Police Department are almost identical to those he used in at least one earlier call to the SPD. He had a memorized set of phrases meant to get a response from the police.
If Zimmerman had really wanted to protect his neighborhood, why did he not - while on the phone to the SPD - stick his head out and ask Trayvon Martin what he was doing there? If the teenager had meant to commit a crime in that area, having an adult take note and ask him about his presence would have put him on notice.
The report by the original investigator indicated that Zimmerman, the adult who was a "neighborhood watch captain" and ostensibly studying police procedures, had more than one opportunity to defuse the situation. Instead, his actions resulted in the death of a young man.
We'll never know what actually happened because Zimmerman is a liar and the only other person died at his hands.