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[quote=Anonymous]To the poster who is all "oh, we don't know what really happened" on this thread. It's one thing to not be out for blood just yet, and to say we don't know what happened, but absent one person talking about street justice, most people on this thread just want an arrest made and a proper investigation conducted. We want to see Zimmerman stand trial for this. To not even arrest him? That's just crazy.

And the scenario you set up, where one person goes up to someone, confronts them, and then an altercation ensues and the initiator draws a weapon and shoots? Still merits and arrest and charges.

Let's paint another scenario. A "black guy" is following your white, 17 year old daughter, who is walking alone on a dark street, in a car. He gets out of the car and walks up to her, confronts her, starts questioning her like he is some kind of official, but he has no badge and is not in a police car. Your daughter begins to put up a fight, and begins to win the fight. The "black guy" shoots her dead.

Would the black guy be arrested? Should he? Or should the police just ASSUME it was self defense? I think we allll know the answer. He would have been arrested.

I mean, holy shit. There is inherent racism in the fact that the police assumed self defense, but besides the racism, I want to know what the protocol was. How is it possible he was not arrested at least? It's one thing for them to arrest him, bring him to trial, and have a judge dismiss charges or a jury acquit him on self defense, but how do the police offers get to play judge and jury?

What's killing me is that this is not making more headlines. If you note the petition, it does not say "please go conduct vigilante justice." It asks for an investigation. Which starts with a proper arrest. UNBELIEVABLE that this has not yet happened.

And BTW, to the people who are saying "yes, I know, bad stuff has happened in the past, let's move on." Are you KIDDING me? Bad stuff is still happening, honey.

And before you think this is some kind of reverse racism or I'm an angry black individual, let me assure you I'm lily white. I'm sickened, sickened, sickened by this. And the people who defend this guy? Defend what he did and then are defending the complete failure to arrest him?

What the fuck is wrong with you?!?!?!?!?!?! [/quote]

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