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Originally Posted by Robbie
That part is bullshit by those cops. No way that if a cop patrolling a neighborhood that has been robbed repeatedly over the last few weeks saw a guy in a hoodie walking up in people's yards at night that he wouldn't have stopped and asked him what he was doing.
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Was he really walking through peoples' yards the whole time or was he just doing that to get away from Zimmerman (who never identified himself as being with the neighborhood watch) and what witnesses are there to this other than Zimmerman?
I completely agree about a teen walking through a neighborhood with a hoodie. But wasn't it also raining? I think that would make it a lot less suspicious.
According to Wikipedia here are Zimmerman's words in a call to the police:
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"This guy looks like he's up to no good, or he's on drugs or something. It's raining and he's just walking around, looking about" and "looking at all the houses"
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Wikipedia then goes on...
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although according to a police report, there was "no indication that Trayvon Martin was involved in any criminal activity at the time of the encounter"
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooti...Trayvon_Martin
It really looks like he was being profiled because of either or both of his color and age. There is not any evidence to show that Trayvon Martin was walking around to commit a crime. Instead it seems he was simply walking home from the store.
What many white people may not be understanding is that a case like this may make a parent think twice about whether their son is now safe walking home at night because he might fit a certain profile and end up shot by an overzealous neighborhood watch volunteer who thinks he is a criminal. People (especially minorities) think "What if that were my son?"