Police: Encounter Between George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin Was ‘Avoidable’
Sanford police believed the confrontation between Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman could’ve been avoided had Zimmerman just remained in his car, according to the Orlando Sentinel.
Evidence released by Special Prosecutor Angela Corey’s office includes a police report which states that the encounter between Martin and Zimmerman was “ultimately avoidable” if Zimmerman had “remained in his vehicle and awaited the arrival of law enforcement.”
“There is no indication that Trayvon Martin was involved in any criminal activity at the time of the encounter,” said one police report released on Thursday.
Martin family attorney Benjamin Crump responded to the news, saying, ”First of all, we’re happy that all the evidence is out.” When asked about Zimmerman’s minor wounds to the back of his head, Crump explained that Trayvon Martin ”was fighting for his life” against “a man with a 9 mm gun.”
“Whatever happened was because George Zimmerman made his decision to profile and pursue Trayvon Martin,” Crump said. Based on the evidence, “you have to conclude that the only reason Trayvon Martin is dead is because George Zimmerman profiled him that night.”
Of course it was avoidable! I am sick and tired of people trying to make Trayvon share some of the blame. The whole tragic ncident was due to Zimmerman being overzealous in approaching Trayvon and for what? Absolutely nothing. His primary thought was I’m not gonna let this one get away like the others. It didn’t have to be Trayvon any black man around Trayvon’s age would have done as far as he was concerned.
Without any doubt in my mind, a man carrying a gun has one purpose in mind, to supposedly be fearful and in need of protection. Fearful of what? a young boy walking along with his skittles and iced tea? In that case we all walk along the sidewalks and meet people. What ever happened to greetings,
“Hello” or “Good Afternoon” with a smile?
The bottom line (for whatever reason) Zimmerman pulled the Trigger of his GUN and killed someone. Where I grew up in the mid-west, that is called “Murder”.
bobel! You made my day, we have something that we agree on.
see, Jesus makes the difference… It is the old rugged Cross that unites our hearts and gives us power and strength to be a witness… No Fear, No Judgmental attitudes. There is nothing more wonderful than bonding with you around the Foot of the Old Rugged Cross…. one of my favorite hymns.
another favorite is Because He Lives, Listen to it here:
In Jesus’s Love for you… I am so happy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M-zwE33zHA&feature=rellist&playnext=1&list=PLAFC60EF8A211808A
The facts will speak loud and clear. On the other hand just think if there would not have been a spotlight on this event. Just think it scares me because I too have a son who is 12. Also, I am a law enforcement officer who trains those who are pursing careers in law enforcement.
If the invisibel sky daddy or Jebus really existed. He would have came down out of the sky and stopped those m***a effin’ bullets from going into Trayvon’s chest. Black people kill me with this invisble man is gon’ save’d us c**p? Did your spooky daddy show up and bust a hole open on the side of those slave ships for 400 years? Nope. It wasn’t until what like 200 years into slavery that a whiteman even let you read his Bible or touch it. Now that same God is going to save you? Brainwashed and bamboozled. Zimmerman is going to walk. They are going to get an all white jury and he is going to walk. Then what, it was God’s will? All the preacher pimps should just go ahead and buy a new kool-aid colored cherry red suit and matching gators right now, so when Big Z gets released they can Crip walk in front of their sheep and tell them to calm down. The Lord made his decision.
If you’re gonna be racist about it, get someone to help you with your spelling before you post. Otherwise you will be viewed as some sort of ignorant Redneck and I know that you don’t want that do you?
This Zimmerman is a lamebrain sadistic wannabe policeman….Thought he was tough until this little skinny guy kick his fat a*s…….Now he want people to believe he was standing his ground when he was stalking Travon….The 911 tapes have all the information to convict this guy…He will plea for manslaughter…..His lawyer seem to be a sensible guy…………..Travon lawyer is so right he should have stayed in his car and wait for the police to arrived…..Yes he was profiling because he said this guy look to be up to no good….I wish he would offer an explanation why Trayvon look to be up to no good…when he was only walking up or down the side walk….Ohh I forgot he was Black….Maybe that was the reason he look suspicious… …….
That’s what those of us who understand the situation have been saying all along, and I am also sick of those who keep trying to either establish a false equivalency between George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin or make Zimmerman out to be a victim of Trayvon. Zimmerman was the adult, and he was armed when he shouldn’t have been, given his history of confrontation and violence. Trayvon was minding his business, bothering no one, and the issues he had as a teenager had nothing to do with why he was stalked by this wannabe cop. I would be willing to be that the Sanford police are wishing now that they never even heard George Zimmerman’s name, much less dealt with him. His stupidity cost a young man his life, and in doing so, exposed their tendency to trivialize black victims.
This cop who said this was avoidable is no cop of any brilliance and is most likely corrupt. Why would a so call “lead investigator” make such a meaning less, no legal weight statement? oh Yes if Trayvon had stayed home he would be alive today…….a duhhh. GZ was already of of his car when the dispatcher told GZ “we dont need you to do that” The dispatcher asked which way was he (Trayvon) going and GZ exited his car to see. The dispatcher more then likely said “we don’t need you to do that” was more likely for GZ’s safety and the legal fact is GZ had every right to get out of his car, to look out for his community as any concerned citizen , has the right to do. This cop was probably p****d that GZ dis the PD for being lazy and disgusting and that GZ called for the Chiefs pension to be revoked due to GZ charge that the Chief was part of a cover up and for GZ’s support of a black homeless man.
Zimmerman has told so many different tales that it’s impossible to believe him. the DUH!! is when people engage in semantics as to whether the dispatcher ordered or advised Zimmerman to stay in his car. Either way, he should have used the common sense that would have reminded him that he did not have the training to approach potential suspects and induced him to stay in his car.
The people defending Zimmerman engage in self-contradiction without even noting it. On one hand, he is a neighborhood watchman who is looking out for his neighborhood, but they conveniently choose to overlook the fact that he was not supposed to be carrying a gun in that capacity and that he was to merely observe and report. There would have been NO confrontation if he had not gotten out of his car. On the other hand, if Zimmerman himself had stayed home, this wouldn’t have happened. The boy was visiting his father and had gone out to get snacks during a game halftime, which he had every right to do. So, both of them had the right to be where they were. But any equivalency past that point is false. Zimmerman, with his well-established record of confrontational behavior (hitting a police officer, roughing up a female customer as a security guard, domestic violence with a former girlfriend) should never have been allowed a gun in the first place. The fact that he was never convicted is most likely the result of his enabling former magistrate father pulling strings, since most folks wouldn’t have gotten off so lightly. I have a grandson about to turn 16, and we caution him to keep moving when confronted by strangers like Zimmerman. As for Zimmerman’s derogatory remarks about the Sanford police, he himself wanted badly to be one, but he got rejected based partly on a psychological evaluation which most likely revealed his penchant for aggressive behavior. No matter what he said about them, he wanted to be one. He was a wannabe cop, and on top of it all, he was taking perscription drugs, one of which
is known to increase the likelihood of aggressive behavior.