We are now comparing FBI highly educated and trained profilers to a street-level wanna be cop who barely had an associate's degree?
(descriptions are MOO)
Yes, and IMO the street-level, etc. person would be much more likely to profile and violate the law and in this instance a civil rights protective law than would a highly educated and trained FBI profiler.
If Trayvon Martin had been white (And I see white teens wearing those pants on the floor, etc. clothing all the time) I don't think that GZ would have looked at him twice. IMO GZ followed and killed TM specifically because he was a black teenager in a place where GZ, the high and mighty, did not allow him to be. Taking one's life is not a minor act and not one which should "Blow over." It is one which should be investigated and the perpetrator should be arrested, tried and convicted if it should prove that the death was not justified and in this case I cannot agree that it was.
I don't know how many, if any, of our posters are AA, but if there are some, I am willing to bet that they would say that they have not ever in their entire lives had a day when someone did not try to belittle them, descriminate against them, or ignore that they even existed at least once. And I think that if we were willing to face the truth, this cannot be denied.
Yes, IMO, GZ violated TM's civil rights. TM had a right to peacefully walk down a sidewalk in a communtiy in which he was a guest and not be murdered simply because a person who had a history of violence and illegal acts and was armed with a revolver decided to take it upon himself to teach the intruder a lesson. And in doing that, he took away the future for TM and destroyed the future for his family. And if there is any justice in this world, GZ will have some time in his future to think over his actions while in prison. But at least, GZ has a future.
It is reported, although the truth of it has not been established, that TM once had a screwdriver in his school bag and many jumped to the conclusion that TM either had, or intended to use that screwdriver as a burglary tool. OK. I contend that George Zimmerman got out of his vehicle and shadowed TM with the
INTENT of apprehending him and detaining him until LE arrived. His plans went awry in a most horrible way. Burglary and murder are two different things entirely and the intent to do either is illegal.
Res IPSA Loquitur