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Originally Posted by Ben E Lou
I thought that he and his dad were visiting his dad's girlfriend.
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Ah ok. So he wasn't a 'stranger' there then and Mr. Neighborhood Watch, the ever so vigilant, defender of opened windows and garage doors, didn't ask some simple questions...who are you and who are you visiting? Maybe Trayvon gave him some lip (I probably would have too) and that pissed Zimmerman off. In all honesty, I'm sometimes kind of jerk to people who question me when they are obviously not any kind of authority figure. If I'm asked who I am and what am I doing here, I answer them with the exact same question, since you are just as much of a stranger to me as I am to you.
There's a very apparent big gap of facts that have not been publicized, so it is very hard to say 100% who was at fault and what exactly happened here. All I know is, a teenager is dead, a dad lost his son and I don't feel any safer with people like Zimmerman in my nieghborhood.
That was a good facebook post. I tend to forget that I'm here in California and stuff like that does happen here, just probably not at the same frequency as it does in the South, so I think it gets pushed to the back of my mind. My best friend, since Junior high, is black and even in "liberal" Southern California, he occasionally gets a DWB. I just don't get it, but, I'm white so I'm not sure if I'm supposed to get it. All I know is, it's screwed up.