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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsZimmerman called the police 46 times since Jan. 1, 2011.
Zimmerman called police 46 times since Jan. 1, 2011 to report disturbances, break-ins, windows left open and other incidents. Nine of those times, he saw someone or something suspicious.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/03/17/2700249/shooter-of-trayvon-martin-a-habitual.html#storylink=cpy
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Speck Tater
(10,618 posts)who couldn't make the grade as a real cop so he took his gun out on the streets to play cops and robbers with real bullets.
Webster Green
(13,905 posts)This is disgraceful. I've spent enough time in Sanford to know that it's a redneck shit-hole, but this is just absurd, and unacceptable.
No arrest or test for drugs or booze? Locals didn't even bother to investigate. Too bad for them that this event became the subject of national outrage.
Junkdrawer
(27,993 posts)don't smell right.
Junkdrawer
(27,993 posts)But the killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin left the boys family and attorneys convinced that the volunteer developed a twisted sense of entitlement, one that gave him a false sense of authority to enforce the rule of law in his tiny gated community. Trayvons familys attorneys believe that led to racial profiling and murder.
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