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Lilyeye

(1,417 posts)
26. You're right
Fri Mar 23, 2012, 04:35 AM
Mar 2012

What angers me the most is that this guy would have walked away free with no questions asked if the public hadn't spread this story.

Not on his word--on the police. TheWraith Mar 2012 #1
Police CYA for perhaps encouraging Z. at least indirectly? patrice Mar 2012 #6
I think it's more likely that he has connections with the police department. TheWraith Mar 2012 #8
I keep thinking of Drew Peterson. LoZoccolo Mar 2012 #24
YES, I just thought about this as I walked outside...it's like someone can kill me right now and jus uponit7771 Mar 2012 #2
I'm not one to casually slam police officers USArmyParatrooper Mar 2012 #3
jSomeone pointed out that if he had killed Trayvon with a car the police would have Booster Mar 2012 #5
the police dropped the ball. Tuesday Afternoon Mar 2012 #4
Sloppy, lazy and incompetent police work guitar man Mar 2012 #7
Incompetence that severe has to be deliberate. nt TheWraith Mar 2012 #9
Very possible guitar man Mar 2012 #12
Yep. It sounds like they are trying to send a message. DCBob Mar 2012 #17
Amen, Wraith... It is deliberate...P.E.R.I.O.D. nt Ecumenist Mar 2012 #21
Not incompetent. Racist in an almost malicious way. kestrel91316 Mar 2012 #13
But he has the "I have Black Friends" defense FrodosPet Mar 2012 #23
i think cops didn't really care because the dead was a black kid JI7 Mar 2012 #10
If Zimmerman was a COP he would have been put on administrative leave and doc03 Mar 2012 #11
Not if it was a Sanford police officer Hugabear Mar 2012 #15
I worked for a PD for 15 years. This was not incompetence. It was blatent racism. appleannie1 Mar 2012 #14
You're right Lilyeye Mar 2012 #26
they actually didn't even let Zimmerman talk Enrique Mar 2012 #16
Racist Southern cops are not anything new. nt hack89 Mar 2012 #18
Recipe for murder. EC Mar 2012 #19
Read the police reports... ProgressiveProfessor Mar 2012 #20
and yet it is being reported that he still has his gun, that it was not taken from him. niyad Mar 2012 #22
Journalism at its finest... ProgressiveProfessor Mar 2012 #27
That is the most incompetent report Blue_Roses Mar 2012 #25
It is incomplete (so marked) and where are the rest of them? ProgressiveProfessor Mar 2012 #28
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