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Originally Posted by ladyjane  The school was predominately black. The conversation I had with the officer was crystal clear to me...I honestly don't remember the entire conversation but he admitted he made a comment about the baggie and also admitted that the light that my son supposedly ran was a guess on his part.... that really pissed me off. He could not see it from where he was...my son had told me that. So WHY did he follow them and stop them??? It's a long story...but bottom line....white kid driving three black kids. Officer had bad attitude and ended up in the end realizing he was wrong and left them after scaring the hell out of them. He made comments to me about the "kids in _______". Black inner city type kids. Officer was white. He really did make other comments, but I don't recall them now...just know it was what it was. |
Oh, I see now that you explained the different races and predominance of ethnicity in the school mentioned. Yes, as I said earlier tonight, there is so much racism left in this country and you can see it raising its head in this case, with so many wanting it to be racial. But I never did see this Zimmerman case of killing as racist, even at the first. Just because NBC had edited the 911 tape and Zimmerman said Trayvon Martin was black, stating "He's black" over and over and over and over every time the networks played just those words, it doesn't make him racist. Following a kid doesn't make you racist. Criminal profiling of youths doesn't make you racist. "He's black", that part of the tape all the networks played all day and night for days just said to me the guy was describing the youth's ethnicity and turns out, it was in answer to a question from the 911 dispatcher and all of that question had been carefully edited out.
I think that "He's black" phrase alone probably started so many people thinking this was a race case - that and the following for some reason. But to someone knowing what neighborhood burglaries can do in a neighborhood to raise fear and suspicion and how alone the victims and residents feel because police are of little help, it just sounded like plain old neighborhood watch volunteer in hunter mode to look for suspicious kids in the neighborhood and try to see what they were up to. It sounded to me like they got in each other's face, started fighting and the one guy was in fear of becoming a vegetable due to brain trauma or dying and fired his weapon. But he never made a racist statement or did a racist act that night that I could see. I think if the young man had been white or hispanic and walking looking about in the rain at night, GZ have profiled and followed him too. And some even thought
me a racist for not thinking this was a race-related crime!
I doubt Zimmerman would have ever pulled his weapon and fired if his head weren't getting banged over and over and he feared a serious brain injury or death. That's going to terrify any adult.
But sadly, since so many have made this racial, George Zimmerman, I fear, is a dead man walking. Now his premeditated murder will be a hate crime and will violate the dead man's civil rights.