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randome

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3. “We don't need you to do that” is not an order that needs to be obeyed.

Reply to ScreamingMeemie (Original post)

Fri May 18, 2012, 11:58 AM

May 2012

It sure as hell wasn't as aggressive a statement as it should have been. It's pretty weak, in fact.

And even if the dispatcher 'ordered' Zimmerman to stand down, he was under no requirement to do so.

He's guilty of manslaughter, to be sure. Anything else is up to the jury.

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“We don't need you to do that” [View all] ScreamingMeemie May 2012 OP

Blacks don't have the right ... GeorgeGist May 2012 #1

There you go again - interjecting facts into the argument. TBF May 2012 #2

“We don't need you to do that” is not an order that needs to be obeyed. randome May 2012 #3

Imagine what would have happened if it had been obeyed? ScreamingMeemie May 2012 #4

keep fucking that chicken frylock May 2012 #14

Yup. Hell Hath No Fury May 2012 #5

So disobeying a dispatcher is OK Bake May 2012 #6

It blows my mind that some (so many) think that, because it was a ScreamingMeemie May 2012 #8

You are confusing two different issues. ManiacJoe May 2012 #16

Not confusing, Combining. ScreamingMeemie May 2012 #17

well, according to Zimmerman hfojvt May 2012 #7

A sane, well intentioned person, when told "We don't need you to do that", is going ScreamingMeemie May 2012 #9

I generally do lots of things I do not need to do hfojvt May 2012 #10

I should have said return to his car. Apologies for mispeaking. ScreamingMeemie May 2012 #11

I disagree. That was just a suggestion, a piece of sound advice that carries no legal weight. slackmaster May 2012 #12

Which is why we have a DA that looked at the evidence and pressed charges. ScreamingMeemie May 2012 #13

K and R. nt Chorophyll May 2012 #15