17yr old black kid shot and killed for walking in white suburbia?

[buttslinger]

Funny how a thread based on a story like this gets all the idiots and racists to come crawling out of the woodwork.

YOU RANG?
Those Wannabe cops are the worst, I've had run ins with them before.
I believe there is a kind and all knowing God awaiting all of us, but trust me, in jail, they have NIGGERS there.

FINALLY, my chance to put up "fight on a bus" I was afraid I wouldn't be able to. Check out the sweet chick in the turquoise top and headphones.

And oh yeah, that poor kid got senselessly murdered. Period

[Stavros]

The reports I have read suggest that Trayvon was walking through 'a gated white community' -as he had gone to a store to get some Skittles and a soda, I assume he was taking a short cut to get back to the place where he was staying nearby, though it isn't clear why he would go through the 'gated community' and if he went through it on the first leg of the trip. What does interest me is the concept of Neighbourhood Watch, which we do have here in the EuroTrashland, as well as gated communities. If you then set someone up as a 'Neighbourhood Watch Captain' as I have seen Zimmerman described, you are inviting this person to behave responsibly or irresponsibly depending on their personality.

For example, Zimmerman immedately called the cops when he saw Trayvon and they told him to stay in his vehicle, but he not only left it, he took his gun with him as well. He could have just sat in the vehicle and 'observed'; or he could have approached the boy and asked him what he was doing in a 'gated community' which, presumably is equivalent to trespassing on private property (?). I don't know what Skittles are in the USA and whether or not they can cause serious injury, but there are times when people who are given authority exceed it, throw their weight around, and become irate and aggressive if someone dares to challenge them -after all in the end they are just citizens, not authorized policemen with the powers to arrest someone.

If it interests us here in EuroTrashland, it is not just because of the 'human interest', but because the Government is proposing a 'private-public partnerships' which will enable 'front-line policing' to focus on major crime while privately run squads will do things like patrolling neighbourhoods with the powers of arrest. Luckily most of our Police do not carry guns, but I can see some innocent person getting annoyed with an inflated ego in a uniform, and causing a disturbance which otherwise would not have happened.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/ma...ty-firms-crime

[giovanni_hotel]

There was no 'neighborhood watch' in this community. Zimmerman appointed HIMSELF to be the 'Neighborhood Watch Captain'.


THis poor kid left a relative's house to go pick up an iced tea and candy from a convenience store, then headed back.

Zimmerman followed Trayvon all the way back home, confronting him before he could get to the door of his house.

[Stavros]

I got the info from this article in the NYT, there seem to be many disputed facts in this case...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/17/op...trayvon&st=cse

[yourdaddy]

No one will put the picture up of Trayvon in his hoodie...wonder why. They seem to love the 12 year old shots...wonder why.

Even the NY Times said that Zimmerman came from a "multi-racial" background. Maybe that will shut up the haters that hollered "White", and put me down for saying he was as white as obama.

I live in a multi-racial (Hispanic, Italian, Greek and Anglo) neighborhood. A single black kid would be stupid to walk around by himself in 85 degree heat with his sweat shirt hood up unless he was looking for trouble.

[Instrumental]

No one will put the picture up of Trayvon in his hoodie...wonder why.

Someone already did. Not that it's at all relevant to anything. And your internet detective bullshit trying to extrapolate criminal behavior from a person's fashion apparel is probably the most profoundly retarded thing I've had the displeasure of reading in a long time. Bottom line is, the kid was unarmed and pursued by a man who was armed. A man who was explicitly told not to by the police. Zimmerman had no business confronting him, let alone getting in any sort of altercation and shooting the kid.

[caliuncut]

I keep reading comments about how Zimmerman was Hispanic, insinuating that he couldn't be racist. I don't know where you guys live, but the whole concept of all minorities loving eachother and getting along is ridiculous. Minorities hate on eachother more than white people do...here in LA for example it is well knows that Blacks and Hispanics do not get along. Prejudice is not exclusive to white people....

[south ov da border]

I live in the area. That particular part of town has a history for horrible race relations. It's not a good place history wise for race relations.

they are not asking people from around the area the history of certain race relation incidents. If so, then it would change the light of this story.

but in the end, this guy is still a piece of shit delusional sob...

[fordly66]

Hispanic is white. "Eurotrash" haha -fuck off. As I said at the start of this thread, news is international, not exclusive.

That wasn't meant toward you. I read some comments from others on here and from times in the past about how things in the U.S. are so barbaric. Like every country in Europe is so superior, gets old hearing it.

And this young man shouldn't have been harassed and then murdered. I truely do hate hearing about black people being unjustly murdered.

[Nicole Dupre]

A single black kid would be stupid to walk around by himself in 85 degree heat with his sweat shirt hood up unless he was looking for trouble.

I thought it was raining.

And why can't a black kid wear whatever he wants? Wearing a hood on your head is a calculable risk now? What if he had on a Malcolm X t-shirt? What else can't a single black kid wear without risking having a self-appointed security guard with a gun kill them?