Zimmerman...the burglary culprit was already in jail.

[msanthrope]

There are already three other threads on the Reuters story....and while I think they raise interesting points, I think something major is being missed:

On February 2, 2012, Zimmerman placed a call to Sanford police after spotting a young black man he recognized peering into the windows of a neighbor's empty home, according to several friends and neighbors.

On February 6, the home of another Twin Lakes resident, Tatiana Demeacis, was burglarized. Two roofers working directly across the street said they saw two African-American men lingering in the yard at the time of the break-in. A new laptop and some gold jewelry were stolen. One of the roofers called police the next day after spotting one of the suspects among a group of male teenagers, three black and one white, on bicycles.

Police found Demeacis's laptop in the backpack of 18-year-old Emmanuel Burgess, police reports show, and charged him with dealing in stolen property. Burgess was the same man Zimmerman had spotted on February 2.

Burgess had committed a series of burglaries on the other side of town in 2008 and 2009, pleaded guilty to several, and spent all of 2010 incarcerated in a juvenile facility, his attorney said. He is now in jail on parole violations.

The man that Zimmerman had identified as lurking around the neighborhood (on Feb. 2) and who probably committed the Feb 6. burglary was already in jail. The police had already caught a suspect--Burgess. A suspect that Zimmerman recognized, apparently.

But not two weeks later, Zimmerman is out in his car.

Here's what I want to know, and what I think is pivotal to the case against Zimmerman....how many burglary reports happened after the arrest of Emmanuel Burgess? Did they continue? Did they stop?

In other words...you have at least a two week lull between an arrest and the shooting of Trayvon Martin. You have a suspect in jail, one Zimmerman knows by sight and apparently identified to the cops at some point....but you still have Rambo sitting in a car watching people.*** Why?

***I know what Zimmerman claimed he was doing. Bullshit.

[ZombieHorde]

1. Interesting. nt

[jenwilson]

2. That is a complete nonissue

Just because someone breaks into a house doesn't give an idiot with a gun the right to murder them.

[Hoyt]

3. The NRA and other right wing gun organizations and their members believe differently.

In their mind -- what's the use of having guns if you can't shoot someone and walk away with a medal?

[Leftist Agitator]

4. If someone breaks into my house while I'm in it...

They are going to meet the business end of a 12 gauge and fucking die, end of story.

Now, on the other hand, someone else's house? Different story.

[Fumesucker]

5. Hope it's not a child sneaking in after curfew that gets shot..

If you think that hasn't happened before you're sadly mistaken.

[Leftist Agitator]

9. I don't have kids. And all of the windows are locked, as are both the back and front door.

I'm fairly certain that there isn't going to be a kid jimmying open my window or kicking my door in any time soon.

[Fumesucker]

10. Eh, if it's not you it'll be someone else that kills their own child out of fear..

I can only dimly imagine the heartbreak that will cause them, I wouldn't be that person for anything at all.

[notadmblnd]

7. your cheap crap from china is really important to you huh?

there is no material possession that I have that would cause me to kill someone. It's just STUFF, stuff can be replaced (it's why we have homeowners insurance and renters policies). Now if a family member is threatened that is a different story, I could kill and would also be willing to die defending my family. But my crap, take it. I really and truly don't care about any of it.

[Leftist Agitator]

8. No, my health and safety is that important to me.

I'm poor, aside from a four year old laptop and a pump-action Mossberg 500, there's nothing here worth stealing.

[msanthrope]

6. Um, what?

[ProgressiveProfessor]

11. Castle Doctrine says it is not murder if the house occupants kill intruders

44 states and most Americans agree with that

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12. We need to work on those other 6...

and convince them to join the rest of the nation.