Arrrgh! ESPN Sez Trayvon Was "Shot By A Neighborhood Watch OFFICER"

[stopbush]

Officer? Are you fucking kidding me? And their newsreader was a person of color.

Forced to cover the story because the Miami Heat issued their hoody photo, they end up protecting the murderer by calling a vigilante an "officer."

[FarPoint]

1. Some how, the Miami Heat team needs to hear this.

they could boycott giving ESPN interviews...for example.

[FarPoint]

2. Maybe Es Schultz will take this fact to task?

I believe his staff read DU....

[Lint Head]

3. Trayvon had the right to "Stand His Ground" against an unknown man with a gun.

[pokerfan]

4. Zimmerman is not a member of any recognized neighborhood watch organization

Needs reposting...

When 28-year-old George Zimmerman was discovered by Sanford, Florida police standing over the body of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, they accepted Zimmerman's claim that he killed in self-defense as a neighborhood watch captain. Now, through a statement released by the National Sheriffs' Association (NSA) -- the parent organization of USAonWatch-Neighborhood Watch -- it has been revealed that Zimmerman was not a member of any group recognized by the organization. Zimmerman violated the central tenets of Neighborhood Watch by following Martin, confronting him and carrying a concealed weapon.

"In no program that I have ever heard of does someone patrol with a gun in their pocket," Carmen Caldwell, the Executive Director of Citizens' Crime Watch of Miami-Dade, told theGrio. "Every city and municipality has their own policies. Here in Miami-Dade we train people only to be the eyes and ears of their communities. Not to follow and most definitely not to carry a weapon."

http://www.thegrio.com/specials/trayvon-martin/zimmerman-not-a-member-of-recognized-neighborhood-watch-organization.php

[underpants]

5. Disney Inc. says - bow down and do as you are told

I expect that we will see or hear "Officer" a lot in near future.