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TeamsterDem

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34. Guy, the link between questioning and arrests doesn't exist no matter how hard you strain
Wed Mar 28, 2012, 05:45 AM
Mar 2012

An arrest is where handcuffs are used, you're told you're under arrest for whatever crime, and you're transported to some sort of facility. A detainment for questioning can happen in a multitude of ways (sometimes cuffs, sometimes not), none of them having you told "you're under arrest" - because you're not. And a simply interview (a voluntary one) involves no handcuffs, and is a process which you're allowed to terminate simply by saying you want to end the interview. Trying to stop either of the others just won't be successful for they might go and get you an attorney which STALLS the process, but it doesn't STOP it.

By the accounts here Zimmerman was interviewed. Whether he was detained during that interview isn't exactly known, but we do know he wasn't placed under arrest for it. And now we know that he pursued Trayvon in a vehicle and on foot, just as a real cop should do if reasonable cause exists.

While I admire your desire to just justice meted out, I'm not sure you yourself know just how to approach this case which has now left you attempting to clean up your definition of arrests vs questioning, and beyond that a few strange jobs with very little substantive argument in there. I think you've run out of arguments and are now just trying to pick others' apart, hoping you'll find something of use in there. So I guess I'll bid you farewell seeing as it's not discussion but disagreement you're seeking, and I'm rather disinterested in locating on of those.

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Hard to get the death penalty when you haven't even been arrested. Rex Mar 2012 #1
I'm expecting him to get arrested Enrique Mar 2012 #3
I have to admit, I am starting to wonder. Rex Mar 2012 #4
I was just about to google her. grasswire Mar 2012 #27
"too much focus on Zimmerman"??? zbdent Mar 2012 #2
I think the poster's point is this: A hate crime was commmitted. The police let the man walk free!!! robinlynne Mar 2012 #8
Agreed. The Sanford PD are the repeat offenders here. n/t EFerrari Mar 2012 #5
The Sanford police cover-up is almost as bad as the crime. Democrats_win Mar 2012 #6
Come now, the police don't cover things up ... (sarcasm) zbdent Mar 2012 #36
The coverup is WORSE than the crime. Which points to a solution... saras Mar 2012 #7
not only that, but I'm willing to bet Blue_Tires Mar 2012 #10
Chief Bill Lee didn't really step down TacoD Mar 2012 #9
Actually the decision not to arrest him was made by the State Attorney ProgressiveProfessor Mar 2012 #11
No. There was a corpse. Until the facts are sorted out EFerrari Mar 2012 #12
So anyone who kills someone in self defense goes to jail until they are cleared? ProgressiveProfessor Mar 2012 #13
Agreed. Lilyeye Mar 2012 #14
The mere fact that he wasn't arrested is exactly the point to me TeamsterDem Mar 2012 #15
Have you read the published police report? ProgressiveProfessor Mar 2012 #16
Good point, but he was still not charged TeamsterDem Mar 2012 #17
The original DA and now the new one are going the Grand Jury route ProgressiveProfessor Mar 2012 #18
uh huh, and what does that mean? TeamsterDem Mar 2012 #19
It means that two different state attorneys are/were unwilling to order Zimmerman's arrest ProgressiveProfessor Mar 2012 #20
I want no one's head on a stick TeamsterDem Mar 2012 #21
"All Accounts" at this point appear to be conjecture at best ProgressiveProfessor Mar 2012 #23
Calling for a criminal to be charged in court is not seeking a head on a stick TeamsterDem Mar 2012 #28
No but slagging others is ProgressiveProfessor Mar 2012 #31
Speaking of conjecture, being questioned is most certainly NOT the same as being arrested TeamsterDem Mar 2012 #32
Depends on the perspective ProgressiveProfessor Mar 2012 #33
Guy, the link between questioning and arrests doesn't exist no matter how hard you strain TeamsterDem Mar 2012 #34
I think the original DA Blue_Roses Mar 2012 #22
Posted here ProgressiveProfessor Mar 2012 #24
I disagree Blue_Roses Mar 2012 #25
Then we will have to agree to disagree ProgressiveProfessor Mar 2012 #26
That may be true, but as high-profile as this Blue_Roses Mar 2012 #30
It is not up to the prosecutor to find the truth. grasswire Mar 2012 #29
Not enough focus on any real "law" enforcement anywhere just1voice Mar 2012 #35
I absolutely agree gvstn Mar 2012 #37
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