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In reply to the discussion: Why didn't George Zimmerman try starting a conversation with Trayvon Martin instead of killing him? [View all]avebury
(11,197 posts)vehicle when the confrontation broke out between the two. Had Zimmerman announced that he was with Neighborhood Watch you had better belief that his legal team would have been screaming that to the rafters.
I think that the phone records for the numerous calls Zimmerman made to the police provide more then ample evidence that he had a tendency to profile the type of individuals that he deemed suspicious. Martin had every right to be there that night. Much has been made that Martin was weaving around. I got to admit, that if I were there that night and it started raining I would have been trying to find a shortcut to get to my destination. It would be absurd to think that anybody (without rain gear or an umbrella) would take the long way in the rain (and remember that Martin might not have been as familiar with the area as Zimmerman).
I totally believe that if the incident had not happened that night with Martin, it would have only been a matter of time before Zimmerman got into a confrontation with someone else in a similar type of circumstance. Zimmerman was an accident waiting to happen.
He is not someone that I would want to be a member of the Neighborhood Watch where I live.