Zimmerman...the burglary culprit was already in jail. [View all]

[msanthrope]

There are already three other threads on the Reuters story....and while I think they raise interesting points, I think something major is being missed:

On February 2, 2012, Zimmerman placed a call to Sanford police after spotting a young black man he recognized peering into the windows of a neighbor's empty home, according to several friends and neighbors.

On February 6, the home of another Twin Lakes resident, Tatiana Demeacis, was burglarized. Two roofers working directly across the street said they saw two African-American men lingering in the yard at the time of the break-in. A new laptop and some gold jewelry were stolen. One of the roofers called police the next day after spotting one of the suspects among a group of male teenagers, three black and one white, on bicycles.

Police found Demeacis's laptop in the backpack of 18-year-old Emmanuel Burgess, police reports show, and charged him with dealing in stolen property. Burgess was the same man Zimmerman had spotted on February 2.

Burgess had committed a series of burglaries on the other side of town in 2008 and 2009, pleaded guilty to several, and spent all of 2010 incarcerated in a juvenile facility, his attorney said. He is now in jail on parole violations.

The man that Zimmerman had identified as lurking around the neighborhood (on Feb. 2) and who probably committed the Feb 6. burglary was already in jail. The police had already caught a suspect--Burgess. A suspect that Zimmerman recognized, apparently.

But not two weeks later, Zimmerman is out in his car.

Here's what I want to know, and what I think is pivotal to the case against Zimmerman....how many burglary reports happened after the arrest of Emmanuel Burgess? Did they continue? Did they stop?

In other words...you have at least a two week lull between an arrest and the shooting of Trayvon Martin. You have a suspect in jail, one Zimmerman knows by sight and apparently identified to the cops at some point....but you still have Rambo sitting in a car watching people.*** Why?

***I know what Zimmerman claimed he was doing. Bullshit.