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Originally Posted by RainMaker
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I've watched multiple videos of poor police interviews that potentially blew murder cases. I've seen officers get one idea in their head and be a little slow to consider different ideas. (though of course, the good interviews/work outnumbers the bad) I didn't suspect a wider conspiracy in any of them, but I suppose it's possible. Pretty unlikely though. Police officers I know want their shifts to end and to go be able to go home in one piece. Putting together conspiracies to protect enthusiastic neighborhood watch guys would be pretty low on their priority list. I wish police work was better and we could have all-star caliber people top to bottom in every city, but that hasn't proven possible with the current pay offered and the fact that they get fired/demoted if someone claims they're rude at a traffic stop. Still, I think it's pretty good considering the different roadblocks, and our system is pretty good at correcting/mitigating the errors that do occur - and they will occur. If an officer here made a mistake assuming it was Zimmerman yelling when a witness was trying to tell him it was Martin, that's a mistake, but a pretty inconsequential one in the grand scheme of things. That witness is still there, and can say what she heard, and why she thinks it was Martin.
But aside for that, it all supports my point in the last post. If we know who was yelling, if that can be proven, it's probably case closed, one way or another, IMO. That's the single most important fact I think. If we know that for a fact, it doesn't much matter what kind of people Zimmerman and Martin were, or what the police did or didn't do, or what Al Sharpton thinks, or whether we should profile based on hoodies. (And witness statements saying it was one guy or the other is not the kind of proof I'm talking about - how would a witness know who was yelling? Defense attorneys are always telling me that eyewitnesses are unreliable - I can't imagine what they'd think about earwitnesses who didn't know either person.....I have more optimism that yelling that's ON A RECORDING can be more definitively tied to one guy or the other.)