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In reply to the discussion: Zimmerman heard to be using racial slur on 911 tape [View all]USArmyParatrooper
(1,827 posts)117. So are you saying
you can READ what people are saying on a waveform without having to hear it?
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Are you counting the murder of a child among those times when we shouldn't be serious?
Zalatix
Mar 2012
#90
And how many people "on the fence" do you think you'd reach with that statement?
jeff47
Mar 2012
#103
I wouldn't say he was a child. He was a minor, a teen, but "child" usu. means
Honeycombe8
Mar 2012
#139
The dispatcher said 'sir, you don't need to be saying things like that,' or something very close
Cirque du So-What
Mar 2012
#8
I can understand for a racial description, since it'd help police know the guy,
Honeycombe8
Mar 2012
#140
Recced for visibility. The local police chief should be arrested for negligence and accessory
leveymg
Mar 2012
#9
I also hear "f-cking c--ns" muttered @ 2:21. The dispatcher then tells him not to follow.
leveymg
Mar 2012
#24
Heard it too....whispered, under the breath but very clear that is what he said....
Pachamama
Mar 2012
#46
It could be either "fuckin' coons" or "fuckin' punks" as far as I can tell.
Comrade Grumpy
Mar 2012
#65
because Zimmerman is running & breathing heavy, it is muttered in a low voice. You miss it at first.
unapatriciated
Mar 2012
#18
I listened. Dispatcher should have told him, at that point, that he appreciated
ScreamingMeemie
Mar 2012
#31
9/11 operators need to issue clear, forceful "Do not pursue" commands. Call it a "Zimmerman warning"
leveymg
Mar 2012
#32
Rodney King's "luck" was that someone was videotaping the incident a block away.
Tommy_Carcetti
Mar 2012
#43
FL. is a good place to start. There is no way this case is going to get buried
EmeraldCityGrl
Mar 2012
#44
Operator asked if "suspicous" person Zimmerman claimed he saw was black, white or hispanic.
LisaL
Mar 2012
#70
He's prob left the country, and tossed the murder weapon..the holdup is Sandford Police
HipChick
Mar 2012
#104
Ah, I see. I don't have the site blocked...the AV program decides those things.
Honeycombe8
Mar 2012
#143
I've been too squeamish to listen to the tapes, but I think I'll tune into O'Donnell.
myrna minx
Mar 2012
#116
Are you sure? That's such an old fashioned term. Even racists don't use that term anymore,
Honeycombe8
Mar 2012
#118
Then I will consider myself lucky. Altho I know plenty of racists. They use the N word.
Honeycombe8
Mar 2012
#138