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In reply to the discussion: There's way too much focus on Zimmerman [View all]TeamsterDem
(1,173 posts)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.